Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 576 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 52
... machine full of lights , which drew thither a vast concourse of people . " The entertainment lasted till three of the clock the next morning , the musick playing and the trumpets sounding all the while : the whole con- cluding cluding ...
... machine full of lights , which drew thither a vast concourse of people . " The entertainment lasted till three of the clock the next morning , the musick playing and the trumpets sounding all the while : the whole con- cluding cluding ...
Σελίδα 241
... machines and their uses , together with plain and sufficient directions for the proper application of them : a method easily practicable , certain in its effects , and so universally useful to the publick , that his Majesty has been ...
... machines and their uses , together with plain and sufficient directions for the proper application of them : a method easily practicable , certain in its effects , and so universally useful to the publick , that his Majesty has been ...
Σελίδα 242
... machines were at first invented , have , not without considerable suc- cess , endeavoured to improve and render them much more useful . The most excellent of all hitherto known are the Water Engines , of late brought to such a pitch of ...
... machines were at first invented , have , not without considerable suc- cess , endeavoured to improve and render them much more useful . The most excellent of all hitherto known are the Water Engines , of late brought to such a pitch of ...
Σελίδα 247
... machines abroad , being as defective as that of the water- engines , rendering them unfit to be conveyed into narrow places and upper fibors . " 2. The experiment abroad was made in a close place , with only a hole at the top , and no ...
... machines abroad , being as defective as that of the water- engines , rendering them unfit to be conveyed into narrow places and upper fibors . " 2. The experiment abroad was made in a close place , with only a hole at the top , and no ...
Σελίδα 248
... machines were entirely removed : the work of almost a whole winter . Insomuch , that " 1. The bulk and weight of the former is re- duced to portable light machines , to be carried and conveyed any where , as occasion shall require . " 2 ...
... machines were entirely removed : the work of almost a whole winter . Insomuch , that " 1. The bulk and weight of the former is re- duced to portable light machines , to be carried and conveyed any where , as occasion shall require . " 2 ...
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Σελίδα 81 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Σελίδα 162 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Σελίδα 161 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Σελίδα 153 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Σελίδα 192 - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
Σελίδα 30 - ... drunkenness, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their alehouses : for, when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not upon the Sundays and holidays ? Seeing they must apply their labour, and win their living in all working days.
Σελίδα 189 - His banished gods restored to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line ; From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome.
Σελίδα 153 - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
Σελίδα 181 - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
Σελίδα 187 - Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent, That he would ruin (for I saw him strong) The sacred truths to fable and old song (So...