The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Том 6Charles Brockden Brown John Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... king , which produced some motions in the house of commons against secret in- fluence . A large portion of the members still adhered to the coali- tion ministry . In the mean time , the king deter- mined on an entire change of mi ...
... king , which produced some motions in the house of commons against secret in- fluence . A large portion of the members still adhered to the coali- tion ministry . In the mean time , the king deter- mined on an entire change of mi ...
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... king and the subject . The custom house and the excise office are , un- happily , therefore to be considered as the archieves of his legislative trophies . Est istud quidem honestum , Verum hoc expedit . As to his achievements , in ...
... king and the subject . The custom house and the excise office are , un- happily , therefore to be considered as the archieves of his legislative trophies . Est istud quidem honestum , Verum hoc expedit . As to his achievements , in ...
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... king's palace , and being almost fa- mished they made a great slaughter among the horses and mules . This made so great a noise , that the whole town was alarmed , every one ran to his arms , and thus my poor lions were killed . Once as ...
... king's palace , and being almost fa- mished they made a great slaughter among the horses and mules . This made so great a noise , that the whole town was alarmed , every one ran to his arms , and thus my poor lions were killed . Once as ...
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... king , and Dr. Thompson , a physi- cian out of practice ; these gentle- men formed a very curious society of very opposite characters ; in short , it was a trio consisting of a misanthrope , a courtier , and a quack . Mr. Glover , the ...
... king , and Dr. Thompson , a physi- cian out of practice ; these gentle- men formed a very curious society of very opposite characters ; in short , it was a trio consisting of a misanthrope , a courtier , and a quack . Mr. Glover , the ...
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... King , ever justly a favourite of the public , took the part of Belcour , and Mrs. Abing- don , with some few salvos on the score of condescension , played Char- lotte Rusport , and though she would not allow it to be any thing but a ...
... King , ever justly a favourite of the public , took the part of Belcour , and Mrs. Abing- don , with some few salvos on the score of condescension , played Char- lotte Rusport , and though she would not allow it to be any thing but a ...
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Страница 147 - Tavern in a considerable body for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of a long table, and was the life and soul of the corps : the poet took post silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, all good men and true.
Страница 148 - I thought it time to press the joke no further, and wrote a few couplets at a side-table, which, when I had finished and was called upon by the company to exhibit, Goldsmith with much agitation besought me to spare him, and I was about to tear them, when Johnson wrested them out of my hand, and in a loud voice read them at the table. I have now lost all recollection of them, and in fact they were little worth remembering, but as they were serious and complimentary, the effect they had upon Goldsmith...
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Страница 149 - ... condition upon its future sale. Johnson described the precautions he took in concealing the amount of the sum he had in hand, which he prudently administered to him by a guinea at a time. In the event he paid off the landlady's score, and redeemed the person of his friend from her embraces. Goldsmith had the joy of finding his ingenious work succeed beyond his hopes, and from that time began to place a confidence in the resources of his talents, which thenceforward enabled him to keep his station...
Страница 147 - I had the honour to be deputed to that office. I planted him in an upper box, pretty nearly over the stage, in full view of the pit and galleries, and perfectly well situated to give the echo all its play through the hollows and recesses of the theatre.
Страница 31 - The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing motions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.
Страница 95 - Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Страница 363 - In this accomplished lady, love is the constant effect, because it is never the design. Yet, though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education...
Страница 56 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Страница 148 - Johnson his manuscript of The Vicar of Wakefield, but seemed to be without any plan or even hope, of raising money upon the disposal of it: when Johnson cast his eye upon it, he discovered something that gave him, hope, and immediately took it to Dodsley, who paid down the price above mentioned in ready money, and added an eventual condition upon its future sale.