The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope and SwiftSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1912 |
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... Queen Anne . His Tory pamphlets : The History of John Bull series ; The Art of Political Lying . Arbuthnot , the Tory Wits , and The Memoirs of Scriblerus . His pamphlets after the crisis . Critical estimate of his political writings ...
... Queen Anne . His Tory pamphlets : The History of John Bull series ; The Art of Political Lying . Arbuthnot , the Tory Wits , and The Memoirs of Scriblerus . His pamphlets after the crisis . Critical estimate of his political writings ...
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... queen's pleasure were less terrible in his eyes than the three public exposures in the pillory , and he used all the means in his power , including a promise through William Penn to make important revelations , in order to escape the ...
... queen's pleasure were less terrible in his eyes than the three public exposures in the pillory , and he used all the means in his power , including a promise through William Penn to make important revelations , in order to escape the ...
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... queen's bench prison in May 1713. Immediately upon his release , he began to edit a new trade journal Mercator , in the interest of Bolingbroke's treaty of commerce , suffering The Review to expire quietly . There is some , though ...
... queen's bench prison in May 1713. Immediately upon his release , he began to edit a new trade journal Mercator , in the interest of Bolingbroke's treaty of commerce , suffering The Review to expire quietly . There is some , though ...
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... queen's death . The paper , together with numerous pamphlets of the period , including the four which form A General History of Trade , gives abundant proof of the liberality of his com- mercial views , although it scarcely justifies ...
... queen's death . The paper , together with numerous pamphlets of the period , including the four which form A General History of Trade , gives abundant proof of the liberality of his com- mercial views , although it scarcely justifies ...
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... queen Anne's death , but , also , in disinterring from the newspapers of the time , particularly from the weeklies pub- lished by Mist and Applebee , a mass of articles surely from Defoe's pen and illustrative of his not inconsiderable ...
... queen Anne's death , but , also , in disinterring from the newspapers of the time , particularly from the weeklies pub- lished by Mist and Applebee , a mass of articles surely from Defoe's pen and illustrative of his not inconsiderable ...
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Página 285 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 85 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Página 302 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Página 172 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings...
Página 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Página 102 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Página 103 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 313 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Página 120 - STELLA this day is thirty-four, (We sha'n't dispute a year or more :) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first I saw thee at sixteen, The brightest virgin on the green ; So little is thy form declined ; Made up so largely in thy mind.