admin | December 29, 2011
The Laureat Odes, indeed, among which the Vision of Judgment must be classed, are, for Ihe most part, worse than Pye’s, and as bad as Cibber’s; nor do we think him generally happy in short pieces. But his longer poems, though full of faults, are nevertheless very extraordinary productions. We doubt greatly whether they will [...]
admin | December 27, 2011
Again, wilh respect to our Moral condition : here also, he who runs masread that the same physical, mechanical influences, are everywhere busy. For the “superior morality,” of which we hear so much, we, too, would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this “superior morality” is [...]
admin | December 25, 2011
The mention of the ribs will bring on one observation more; that although the breast is encompassed with ribs, the belly is left free ; this is, that it may give way to the motion of the midriff Considering the mean and vile fables of the pagan poetry, yea, and the scandalous actions of some [...]
admin | December 22, 2011
Rapacious birds have hooked beaks, strong, sharp, and pointed talons, fitted for the rapine they are so intent upon, and for tearing the flesh that falls into them; and they have robust and brawny thighs, for striking down their prey.By the way; of this kind there is a sort of white crows we must believe [...]
admin | December 20, 2011
My eye had been caught by a gun with a brassbound stock over the chimneypiece, and his eye had followed mine.”Well,” said I, not desirous of more conversation, “shall I go up to Miss Havisham?””Burn me, if I know!” he retorted, first stretching himself and then shaking himself; “my orders ends here, young master. I [...]
admin | December 18, 2011
I indicated in what direction the mist had shrouded the other man, and he looked up at it for an instant. But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding his own leg, which had an old chafe upon it and was [...]
admin | December 15, 2011
“Biddy,” I returned with some resentment, “you are so exceedingly quick that it’s difficult to keep up with you.””She always were quick,” observed Joe.”If you had waited another moment, Biddy, you would have heard me say that I shall bring my clothes here in a bundle one evening.most likely on the evening before I go [...]
admin | December 13, 2011
His politeness for the fair sex has already been hinted at by Miss Rebecca Sharpin a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man. That bloodred hand of Sir Pitt Crawley’s would be in anybody’s pocket except his own; and it is with [...]
admin | December 11, 2011
Poor Dobbin; poor old William! That unlucky word had undone the work of many a yearthe long laborious edifice of a life of love and constancyraised too upon what secret and hidden foundations, wherein lay buried passions, uncounted struggles, unknown sacrificesa little word was spoken, and down fell the fair palace of hopeone word, and [...]
admin | December 8, 2011
Then from all the towns of the Duchy, which stretches for nearly ten milefrom Bolkum, which lies on its western frontier bidding defiance to Prussia, from Grogwitz, where the Prince has a huntinglodge, and where his dominions are separated by the Pump River from those of the neighbouring Prince of Potzenthal; from all the little [...]
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