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R. Griffiths; J. Whiston and B. White; S. Baker; W. Shropshire; L. Davis; and J. Ward, 1753
 

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Página 13 - His eye ,-. -. > worked as much as his tongue, and he was • equally intent on his plots, when engaged in the dialogue, and when out of it : upon the whole, the Player was loft in the Man.
Página 235 - To sum up this long rigmarole, I have, dear B , what you no doubt perceive, for the metaphysical poets, as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing — No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
Página 4 - Left the warm precinfts of the chearful day, Nor caft one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On fome fond breaft the parting foul relies, Some pious drops the...
Página 29 - THE nobleft employment of the mind of man is the contemplating the works of his creator: in the face of nature we...
Página 12 - Play was much better performed than it ever was upon any ftage before. In the whole, there was a face of nature that no Theatrical Piece, acted upon any private Stage, ever came up to. It was evident, that the Performers felt every fentiment they were to exprefs...
Página 10 - ... road. They hired the theatre at Drury-lane, for the night ; they gave their friends as many tickets as would fill it, and exhibited their Performance with all the pomp and decoration of the moft regularly concerted entertainment of the kind. 'As but a thoufand people could be happy enough to fee this, out of twenty...
Página 33 - ... with great satisfaction that I saw them bite open successively every one of the, thirty heads in the flower, and scooping out the contents, add them to the increasing ball, that was to be carried home upon the thigh. Such, then, is the purpose of nature, in •what might appear to us profusion in the abundant quantity of this powder : the Bee wants it, though the plant does not ; and the pains that animal takes to get it out, never fail to answer the purpose of impregnating the fruit, a vast...
Página 10 - They hired the theatre for the night ; they gave among their friends as many tickets as would fill it ; and exhibited their performance with all the pomp and decoration of the moft regularly concerted entertainment of the kind. The royal family did them the honour of...
Página 93 - He cometh from the utmost parts of the earth ; he seeth happiness afar off before him; his eye discovereth her temple beyond the limits of the pole. He walketh up to it, he entereth boldly, and he remaineth there for ever. Establish thy heart, 0 man ! in that which is right ; and then know the greatest of human praise is to be immutable.

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