10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDIVERTING»
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undiverting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Poetical Works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq
... P o E M upon that Noble Science, so worthy an ingenuous'Education,
Aflfflmamy 3 for there we relate, under what Star, a fair Offspring may be conceiv'
d, in a Way not unacCurate, and, perhaps, not altogether disagreeablet and
undiverting.
2
Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed ...
... interesting, and not wholly undiverting, as far as the music, my principal care,
would give me leave. But I humbly beg your Royal' Highnesss pardon; in
applying to the connoisseur, I forget that I am at the same time addresiing a Great
Prince: ...
3
The bengalee or sketches of society in the East
... even while it inculcated its lessons through the sad medium of many a mishap;
and it may not prove uninstructive or undiverting, if, in this first chapter, I offer a
short account of my Indian life, or rather of the leading and controlling events of it.
Henry Barkley Henderson, 1843
4
Love-letters of Eminent Persons
Eight and forty tedious ones are ast, and I am here forgotten still— forlorn,
impatient, restiess everywhere; not one of all your little moments, ye undiverting
hours, can afford me repose. I drag ye on, a heavy load. I count ye all, and bless
ye ...
5
Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines
I cannot here omit one thing Which to some may seem trifling, though I am apt
think our naturalists may have a different opinion of it, and find it afford their
fancies no undiverting employment in more curious and less perilous reflections.
... and odd adventurers that fell in my way ; and from this journal I am now about
to repeat some notices to which I have hitherto not alluded, on account of their
being perhaps too common-place, yet they seem to me not altogether undiverting
.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, 1824
7
Alkibla, a disquisition upon worshiping towards the east, by ...
... supported indeed by a Sett of After-thoughts, which, however unphilosophical
or unscriptural, yet must be allow'd, considering the Gravity of the Authors, not to
be altogether undiverting. ubi supra. Our great Stillingfleet, 'tis true, says in plain ...
8
The Memoirs of Captain George Carleton: And The Life and ...
I cannot here omit one thing, which to some may seem trifling ; though I am apt to
think our naturalists may have a different opinion of it, and find it afford their
fancies no undiverting employment in more curious, and less perilous reflections.
Also, I remember how undiverting bedside television proved at the outset of my
hospitalization following the automobile accident. There I lay, in a world of hurt,
healing slowly, while on the screen men were casually beating one another up
and ...
10
Love-letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister: With the ...
... happy Moment on, in which I shall at least hear from my Philander; eight and
forty tedious ones are past, and I am here forgotten still ; forlorn, impatient,
restless every where ; not one of all your little Moments (ye undiverting Hours)
can afford ...
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