The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 20J. Dodsley, 1794 |
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... as even to excite a murmur among the zealots . But being naturally of a cheerful and fanguine temper , I very foon reco- vered the blow , and profecuted with great ardour my ftudies in the country . In 1742 , I printed at Edinburgh the ...
... as even to excite a murmur among the zealots . But being naturally of a cheerful and fanguine temper , I very foon reco- vered the blow , and profecuted with great ardour my ftudies in the country . In 1742 , I printed at Edinburgh the ...
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Page 9 - I wantonly exposed myself to the rage of both civil and religious factions, they seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct : not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability.
Page 6 - Millar told me, that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book. I must only except the primate of England, Dr Herring, and the primate of Ireland, Dr Stone, which seem two odd exceptions. These dignified prelates separately sent me messages not to be discouraged.
Page 5 - In 1745, I received a letter from the marquis of Annandale, inviting me to come and live with him in England ; I found also that the friends and family of that young nobleman were desirous of putting him under my care and direction, for the state of his mind and health required it. I lived with him a twelvemonth. My appointments during that time made a considerable accession to my small fortune.
Page 83 - I HAD now made the circuit of the Southern Ocean in a high latitude, and traversed it in such a manner as to leave not the least room for the possibility of there being a continent, unless near the pole, and out of the reach of navigation.
Page 222 - They presented to him choice specimens of those works of ingenuity which his light had guided the hand of man in forming. But the Incas never stained his altars with human blood, nor could they conceive that their beneficent father the Sun would be delighted with such horrid victims fj£J.
Page 118 - The body continuing suspended as before, and upright, if the head be leaned quite back, so that the face looks upwards, all the back part of the head being then under water, and its weight consequently in a great measure supported by it, the face...
Page 201 - Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.
Page 199 - cuts love,' they say ! Mere modish love perhaps it may; For any tool, of any kind, Can separate — what was never join'd. The knife that cuts our love in two Will have much tougher work to do ; Must cut your softness...
Page 193 - For should he Lady W. find willing, Wormwood is bitter" "Oh! that's me! the villain! Throw it behind the fire, and never more Let that vile paper come within my door." Thus at our friends we laugh, who feel the dart; To reach our feelings, we ourselves must smart. Is our young bard so young, to think that he Can stop the full spring-tide of calumny?
Page 136 - Chaleis in Euboea, and the country of Media, were famous for their generous and magnanimous race of chickens.