Knight's Penny Magazine, Volúmenes1-2Charles Knight, 1846 |
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... Poor man , he was very nearly mad . " Addison whispered to his friend that the printer would number him amongst the Bedlam candidates if he propounded any more of his speculations ; and then , drawing himself up with greater dignity ...
... Poor man , he was very nearly mad . " Addison whispered to his friend that the printer would number him amongst the Bedlam candidates if he propounded any more of his speculations ; and then , drawing himself up with greater dignity ...
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... Poor things ; yes . " It cannot be ill with Trade , but Land will fall ; nor ill with Land , but Trade will feel it . " We must protect them both . Twins ? no doubt . But like other twins , they may be apt each to want too large a share ...
... Poor things ; yes . " It cannot be ill with Trade , but Land will fall ; nor ill with Land , but Trade will feel it . " We must protect them both . Twins ? no doubt . But like other twins , they may be apt each to want too large a share ...
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... Poor beggarly knaves , they want our money . They would rob us of our gold . We know better than expect that Highlanders without breeches will buy our broad - cloth . It would be better to let the land sell its wool at the dearest ...
... Poor beggarly knaves , they want our money . They would rob us of our gold . We know better than expect that Highlanders without breeches will buy our broad - cloth . It would be better to let the land sell its wool at the dearest ...
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... poor thing of pawn , Called PRUDENCE , which to shame And discount first consign'd Legions of schemes that held account in scorn , Was not of fear then born : Nor yet was heard his moan Amidst the bubble play Of premium ever gay ; Nor ...
... poor thing of pawn , Called PRUDENCE , which to shame And discount first consign'd Legions of schemes that held account in scorn , Was not of fear then born : Nor yet was heard his moan Amidst the bubble play Of premium ever gay ; Nor ...
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... poor untitled chaps , And lick'd the shoes of aldermen and peers , For these were Fortune's seers . And then the premium rose , And then the timid bought , And bold ones set at nought The day of pay , the distant day of woes ; And oft ...
... poor untitled chaps , And lick'd the shoes of aldermen and peers , For these were Fortune's seers . And then the premium rose , And then the timid bought , And bold ones set at nought The day of pay , the distant day of woes ; And oft ...
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Página 226 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 92 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Página 254 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Página 224 - When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans today; And to-morrow shall the fox, from her chambers in the rocks, Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues that late...
Página 249 - Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater...
Página 19 - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4.
Página 206 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Página 225 - Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things.
Página 249 - And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said,
Página 83 - Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul!