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... productions stigmatized as contemptible , because they were too numerous to be read . The common - place sarcasm , that if his verses rhym'd and 66 therefore will suffer no depreciation in the minds of the ROBERT , EARL OF ESSEX . 9.
... productions stigmatized as contemptible , because they were too numerous to be read . The common - place sarcasm , that if his verses rhym'd and 66 therefore will suffer no depreciation in the minds of the ROBERT , EARL OF ESSEX . 9.
Pagina 10
... minds of the liberal or candid , because he protected those poets whose morality and piety procured them the aspersion ... mind with peculiarity of thought , often most happily expressed ; and his pen was always employed in the cause of ...
... minds of the liberal or candid , because he protected those poets whose morality and piety procured them the aspersion ... mind with peculiarity of thought , often most happily expressed ; and his pen was always employed in the cause of ...
Pagina 18
... mind , or conge- niality of sentiment , between the biographer and his subject , before either affection or admiration can be awakened . " Lord Orford's expression of wonder , " remarks Sir E. Brydges , " is very ill - natured and very ...
... mind , or conge- niality of sentiment , between the biographer and his subject , before either affection or admiration can be awakened . " Lord Orford's expression of wonder , " remarks Sir E. Brydges , " is very ill - natured and very ...
Pagina 25
... mind ; That they become an emblem of your That so , who to your orient white should joyn Those fading qualities most eyes adore , Were but like one who gilding silver coin , Gave but occasion to suspect it more . " 66 TO HIS WATCH ...
... mind ; That they become an emblem of your That so , who to your orient white should joyn Those fading qualities most eyes adore , Were but like one who gilding silver coin , Gave but occasion to suspect it more . " 66 TO HIS WATCH ...
Pagina 33
... minds within themselves . " Sharp and bitter jests are blunted more by neg- lecting , than by responding , except they be suddenly and wittily retorted : but it is no imputation to a man's wisdom to use a silent scorn . " The idle man ...
... minds within themselves . " Sharp and bitter jests are blunted more by neg- lecting , than by responding , except they be suddenly and wittily retorted : but it is no imputation to a man's wisdom to use a silent scorn . " The idle man ...
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Pagina 92 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
Pagina 304 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 260 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will!
Pagina 251 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Pagina 334 - ... and he was endless in consultations ; for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgment in question.
Pagina 102 - Exegi monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Pagina 160 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Pagina 242 - My dear mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks she gave me, When, with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me. But her constancy's so weak She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break, Should we live one day asunder.
Pagina 171 - Besides that, he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time; and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure, which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune, but honour and ambition to serve the king when he saw him in distress, and abandoned by most of those who were in the highest degree obliged to him, and by him.
Pagina 36 - I scorn your proffers. I disdain your favor. I abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction.