Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of His Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index, Volume 7,Partie 1

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Page 4 - Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their GOD.
Page 3 - Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does Youth, does Beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine...
Page 3 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Page 4 - If chance direct him to this artless line, Let the sad mourner know — his pangs were mine. Ordain'd to lose the partner of my breast, Whose virtue warm'd me, and whose beauty...
Page 4 - Framed every tie that binds the heart to prove, Her duty friendship, and her friendship love. But yet, remembering that the parting sigh Appoints the just to slumber, not to die, The starting tear I check'd, — I kiss'd the rod, — And not to earth resign'd her, but to God ! SILENT WORSHIP.
Page 4 - ... humanity ; And her heart was warm with all its best affections. Her sense was strong, her judgment accurate, Her wit engaging, and her taste refined ; While the elegance of her form, The graces of her manners, And the natural propriety That ever accompanied her words and actions, Made her virtues doubly attractive, And taught her equally to command Respect and love.
Page 4 - Leaving her disconsolate friends To deplore her loss, And cherish the dear remembrance of that worth They honoured living and lament in death. To the memory of the best of wives, the best of friends He for whom she joined those tender names Dedicates this marble.
Page 263 - A Full and Impartial Account of all the late Proceedings in the University of Cambridge against Dr. Bentley,
Page 447 - The Belief of a Future State proved to be a fundamental article of the religion of the Hebrews, and held by the philosophers, &c." and two or three polemic pieces with Warburton were the consequence of this. His next work was, " Remarks upon Middleton's Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers, &c.
Page 228 - Leland, in which his late dissertation on the principles of human eloquence is criticized, and the Bishop of Gloucester's idea of the nature and character of an inspired language, as delivered in his lordship's doctrine of grace, is vindicated from all the objections of the learned author of the Dissertation.

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