...DER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...Addison’s own composition. In this conjecture he was supported by Ed- ward Young, who had known Tickell long and intimately, and had never heard of hi... ...on disgraceful to his memory, entitled, “Sober Ad- vice from Horace to the Young Gentlemen about T own,” in which he commits many gross indecorums of ... ...ral lays I sing. Thou, whom the Nine with Plautus’ wit inspire, The art of Terence, and Menander’s fire; Whose sense instructs us, and whose humour ch... ...bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day... ...and honour on my side, that whereas, by their proceeding, any abuse may be directed at any man, no injury can possibly be done by mine, since a namele... ...uth’s defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence! To all but heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide: Rev...

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...S AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State El... ...of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Mot... ...abelais had broth- ers, all older than himself. Perhaps because he was the young- est, his father destined him for the Church. The time he spent while... ...y the loftiness of his thought. It would be possible, too, to extract, for young persons, without modification, admirable passages of incomparable for... ...affron, and fine spice, to be bestowed upon Marquet, unto whom likewise he directed to be given seven hundred thousand and three Philips (that is, at ... ...y understand the policy and judgment of our en- emies. They are truly more directed by chance and mere for- tune than by good advice and counsel. In t... ... forehead bone, by which terrible blow likewise he cut the two meninges or films which enwrap the brain, and made a deep wound in the brain’s two post... ...irable industry, with husks, cases, scurfs and swads, hulls, cods, stones, films, cartels, shells, ears, rinds, barks, skins, ridges, and prickles, wh... ... the diction are crept in against my intent. Indeed, Livius Andronicus and Terence, the one a Greek, the other a Carthaginian, wrote success- fully in...

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