A Select Collection of Original Letters: Written by the Most Eminent Persons, on Various Entertaining Subjects, and on Many Important Occasions: from the Reign of Henry the Eighth, to the Present Time, Volume 2J. and J. Rivington and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755 - English letters |
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... thing of your Lordship that is not good ; but I al- ways feared I fhould be one of the first that fhould hear it ... things in the World . I believe your Lordship to have a great Command and Con- duct of yourself , but I am very fenfible ...
... thing of your Lordship that is not good ; but I al- ways feared I fhould be one of the first that fhould hear it ... things in the World . I believe your Lordship to have a great Command and Con- duct of yourself , but I am very fenfible ...
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... thing that is bad . I hope in God no Temptation has yet prevailed upon your Lordship , fo far as to be guilty of any loose Act ; if it has , as you love your Soul , let it not proceed to an Habit ; the Retreat is yet eafy and open , but ...
... thing that is bad . I hope in God no Temptation has yet prevailed upon your Lordship , fo far as to be guilty of any loose Act ; if it has , as you love your Soul , let it not proceed to an Habit ; the Retreat is yet eafy and open , but ...
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... Things that ever heroick Lover utter'd ; which being foftly and fweetly reply'd to by Mrs. Roberts , fhould rudely be ... Thing ( as the Wife have it ) when a Man , half in the Grave , cannot leave off playing the Fool , and the Buffoon ...
... Things that ever heroick Lover utter'd ; which being foftly and fweetly reply'd to by Mrs. Roberts , fhould rudely be ... Thing ( as the Wife have it ) when a Man , half in the Grave , cannot leave off playing the Fool , and the Buffoon ...
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... Thing , that is the three Bufineffes of this Age , Women , Politics , and Drinking , the laft is the only Exercife at which you and I have not prov❜d ourselves errant Flumblers : if you have the Vanity to think otherwife ; when we meet ...
... Thing , that is the three Bufineffes of this Age , Women , Politics , and Drinking , the laft is the only Exercife at which you and I have not prov❜d ourselves errant Flumblers : if you have the Vanity to think otherwife ; when we meet ...
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... others are mere fantastical . How few of us are fit Stuff to make that thing , we have daily the melancholy Experience . How- However , dear Harry ! let us not give out 20 A felet COLLECTION To the SA ME p To the SAME p LETTER XVI.
... others are mere fantastical . How few of us are fit Stuff to make that thing , we have daily the melancholy Experience . How- However , dear Harry ! let us not give out 20 A felet COLLECTION To the SA ME p To the SAME p LETTER XVI.
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affure againſt almoſt Anſwer becauſe Befides beft Ben Johnson beſt Bufinefs Buſineſs Character Comedy confefs Converfation Country Wife Dear Sir defire Diſtance Efteem endeavour Excufe fafe faid fame fave feems felf fenfible fent ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon Friend Friendſhip ftill fuch fuppofe fure give greateſt Happineſs himſelf Honour hope Houfe Houſe Hufband humble Servant Humour Intereft itſelf JOHN DENNIS juft Kindneſs Lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs LETTER Lord Love Madam Majefty Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature never Obfervation Occafion Paffion pafs Perfon pleafe pleaſe Pleaſure Poet poffible prefent Quibble racter Reaſon reft SAM E ſee ſeems Senfe ſhall Silent Woman tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand tion Town Underſtanding uſe Volpone Walter Moyle whofe wiſh World write Wycherley yourſelf
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Page 206 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 144 - Comedy may be allow'd to speak them. From a Witty Man they are expected; and even a Fool may be permitted to stumble on 'em by chance. Tho...
Page 2 - ... much declined by fair ladies, old age : may she live to be very old, and yet seem young, be told so by her glass, and have no aches to inform her of the truth : and when she shall appear to be mortal, may her Lord not mourn for her, but go hand in hand with her to that place where we are told there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, that being there divorced we may all have an equal interest in her again.
Page 268 - He walked ten hours a day, would not eat or drink if his servant stayed in the room. His meat was served up ready cut, and sometimes it would lie an hour on the table before he would touch it, and then eat it walking.
Page 182 - ... they are not so much as taught to spell in their childhood, nor can ever attain to it in their whole lives.
Page 195 - I cannot live a week longer. At this time my spirits fail me ; and it is the ardent love I have for you that carries me beyond my strength, and enables me to tell you, the...
Page 128 - For my morals betwixt man and man, I am not to be my own judge. I appeal to the world, if I have deceiv'd or defrauded any man: and for my private conversation, they who see me every day can be the best witnesses, whether or no it be blameless and inoffensive. Hitherto I have no reason to complain that men of either party shun my company.
Page 143 - But such little remarks as may be continued within the compass of a letter, and such unpremeditated thoughts as may be communicated between friend and friend, without incurring the censure of the world, or setting up for a dictator you shall have from me since you have enjoined it.
Page 182 - ... next her about a new cargo of fans. • It is a little hard that not one gentleman's daughter in a thousand should be brought to read...
Page 181 - I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a certain sort of species hardly a degree above a monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and brocade, and for aught I know, would equally become them.