A Thousand and One Notes on "A New English Dictionary".Philpott & Company, Limited, Printers, 1920 - 64 pages |
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Page 18 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever ; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 6 - I'm quite undone ; And han't, by venturing on a wife, Yet run the greatest risk in life. Mothers and guardian aunts, forbear Your impious pains to form the fair, Nor lay out so much cost and art, But to deflower the virgin heart ; Of every folly-fostering bed By quickening heat of custom bred. Rather than by your culture spoil'd, Desist, and give us nature wild, Delighted with a hoyden soul, Which truth and innocence control.
Page 28 - Boswell hummed and hawed, and then dropped, " I suppose you know Dr. Johnson does not admire Mr. Gray." Putting as much contempt as I could into my look and tone, I said, "Dr. Johnson don't! — humph!
Page 23 - And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell: Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Page 8 - Despoiled straight his breast, and all we might, Wiped in vain with napkins next at hand, The sudden streams of blood that flushed fast Out of the gaping wound. O what a look...
Page 52 - Topples o'er the abandoned sea As the tides change sullenly. The fisher on his watery way, Wandering at the close of day, Will spread his sail and seize his oar Till he pass the gloomy shore, Lest thy dead should, from their sleep Bursting o'er the starlight deep, Lead a rapid masque of death O'er the waters of his path.
Page 6 - Twenty such parts, whose plenty and riches is Enough to make twenty such worlds as this...
Page 3 - Is't to confound some enemy on the seas ' It may be done to-night. Stadlin's within ; She raises all your sudden ruinous storms That shipwreck barks ; and tears up growing oaks ; Flies over houses, and takes Anno Domini Out of a rich man's chimney (a sweet place...
Page 29 - Those writings which I have hitherto published, have been little else than visions which impersonate my own apprehensions of the beautiful and the just. I can also perceive in them the literary defects incidental to youth and impatience; they are dreams of what ought to be, or may be.
Page 31 - Since such love's natural lation is, may still My love descend, and journey down the hill, Not panting after growing beauties, so, I shall ebb out with them, who homeward go.