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Pagina 230 - The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May.
Pagina 526 - I know your affection for wherewith proceeds from your partiality to Dean Swift, whom I can often laugh with, whose style I can even approve, but surely can, never admire. It has no harmony, no eloquence, no ornament ; and not much correctness, whatever the English may imagine. Were not their literature still in a somewhat barbarous state, that author's place would not be so high among their classics.
Pagina 36 - Me'dnipur; it is successfully cultivated in all, and there seem to be no other bounds to the possible production of sugar in Bengal, than the limits of the demand and consequent vend of it. The growth for home-consumption and for the inland trade is vast, and it only needs encouragement to equal the demand of Europe also, It is cheaply produced and frugally manufactured.
Pagina 136 - ... inches perpendicular above the centre of the plane of the top of the measure , the lower part of the guage A is equal to the due height of the heap, and the lower part of the guages BC comes in contact with the straight side of the heap at a mean distance from the top of the heap to the outside of the measure ; which heap is as nearly in. the form of a cone as the nature of the coals will permit, the outside of the measure being the extremity of the base thereof...
Pagina 106 - If our resurrectioncritics shall persist to rummage amongst the graves, and carry their eyes like the hare, who sees distinctly only what is behind her, they may probably spy out. my shade in the background, and bring it into notice. It is naturally to be presumed that, if they would come manfully forward for a living author, the living author would be better pleased; but this he must not expect; the temple of their praise is reared with dry bones and skulls, and till he is a skeleton he cannot...
Pagina 526 - I propose to myself great pleasure in being the only man in England, during some months, who will be in the situation of doing you justice, after which you may certainly expect that my voice will be drowned in that of the public.
Pagina 526 - I have always been on the footing of finding in each other's productions something to blame and something to commend; and, therefore, you may perhaps expect also some seasoning of the former kind ; but really neither my leisure nor inclination allowed me to make such remarks, and I sincerely believe you have afforded me very small materials for them. However, such particulars as occur to my memory I shall mention. Maltreat is a Scotticism which occurs once. What the devil had you to do with that...
Pagina 470 - The fire of the two inner castles had, on our going up, been severe; but, I am sorry to say, the effects they have had on our ships returning, has proved them to be doubly formidable ; in short, had they been allowed another week to complete their defences throughout the channel, it would have been a very doubtful point whether a return lay open to us at all. The manner in which they employed the interval of our absence has proved their assiduity.
Pagina 58 - The | Pleasures | of | Human Life: | Investigated .... Cheerfully, | Elucidated .... Satirically, | Promulgated .... Explicitly, and | Discussed .... Philosophically. | In | A Dozen Dissertations | on | Male, Female, and Neuter Pleasures. | Interspersed with various | Anecdotes, | And expounded by numerous | Annotations. | By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co. | Fellows of the "London Literary Society of Lusorists.