The MiniaturePrinted and sold for the author by C. Knight, 1805 - 368 páginas |
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Página 19
... expressions , half concluded periods , and sentences breaking off in the middle . " Omnia enim stolidi magis admirantur , amantque " Inversis que sub verbis latitantia cernunt . " That is to say in plain English , " It is the fashion o ...
... expressions , half concluded periods , and sentences breaking off in the middle . " Omnia enim stolidi magis admirantur , amantque " Inversis que sub verbis latitantia cernunt . " That is to say in plain English , " It is the fashion o ...
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... of each sort are seized , the offence becomes FELONY . Where only a single expression , half an idea , the scrag - end of a simily , or not more than two words together , are borrowed ; provided the work is THE MINIATURE . 65.
... of each sort are seized , the offence becomes FELONY . Where only a single expression , half an idea , the scrag - end of a simily , or not more than two words together , are borrowed ; provided the work is THE MINIATURE . 65.
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Solomon Grildrig. amination he was asked whether there was any single word , expression , or idea alike : he answer- ed , that he neither knew or cared , for he had read neither ; it sufficed that the subjects were old , and the papers ...
Solomon Grildrig. amination he was asked whether there was any single word , expression , or idea alike : he answer- ed , that he neither knew or cared , for he had read neither ; it sufficed that the subjects were old , and the papers ...
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... reasonable consideration . N. B. Second - hand Ideas , bought , sold and exchanged ; Expressions as usual two shillings and four - pence halfpenny per hundred . T THE MINIATURE . NUMB . VII . MONDAY , June 72 THE MINIATURE .
... reasonable consideration . N. B. Second - hand Ideas , bought , sold and exchanged ; Expressions as usual two shillings and four - pence halfpenny per hundred . T THE MINIATURE . NUMB . VII . MONDAY , June 72 THE MINIATURE .
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... expressions which fell from my mouth , were extolled by them as specimens of premature wit , and indications of future genius . The very manner in which I lisped , Papa , they declared to be singularly ele- gant , and the observations ...
... expressions which fell from my mouth , were extolled by them as specimens of premature wit , and indications of future genius . The very manner in which I lisped , Papa , they declared to be singularly ele- gant , and the observations ...
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Página 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Página 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Página 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Página 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Página 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Página 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Página 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Página 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;