Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters [selected by V. Knox].1812 |
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Pagina 19
... ambition to spread their fame , by being ex- ecuted in the face of the world , which is a fame but of short continuancé . That poet were a happy man who could but obtain a grant to preserve his for ninety - nine years : for those names ...
... ambition to spread their fame , by being ex- ecuted in the face of the world , which is a fame but of short continuancé . That poet were a happy man who could but obtain a grant to preserve his for ninety - nine years : for those names ...
Pagina 23
... ambition to be a doctor till this instant . I ventured to pre- scribe some fruit ( which I happened to have in the coach ) which being forbidden her by her doc . tors , she had the more inclination to . In short , I tempted , and she ...
... ambition to be a doctor till this instant . I ventured to pre- scribe some fruit ( which I happened to have in the coach ) which being forbidden her by her doc . tors , she had the more inclination to . In short , I tempted , and she ...
Pagina 42
... ambition , and designs upon the world or fortune ; it makes a man pretty indif- ferent for the future , provided he can but be easy , by intervals , for the present . He will be content to compound for his quiet only , and leave all the ...
... ambition , and designs upon the world or fortune ; it makes a man pretty indif- ferent for the future , provided he can but be easy , by intervals , for the present . He will be content to compound for his quiet only , and leave all the ...
Pagina 47
... ambition of surprising a reader , is the true natural cause of all fustian and bombast in poetry . To confirm what I have said , you need but look into his first poem of the Weeper , where the 2d , 4th , 6th , 14th , 21st stanzas are as ...
... ambition of surprising a reader , is the true natural cause of all fustian and bombast in poetry . To confirm what I have said , you need but look into his first poem of the Weeper , where the 2d , 4th , 6th , 14th , 21st stanzas are as ...
Pagina 53
... ambition ; let me but have the reputation of these in my keeping , and as for my own , let the devil , or let Dennis , take it for ever . - How gladly would I give all I am worth , that is to say , my Pastorals , for one of them , and ...
... ambition ; let me but have the reputation of these in my keeping , and as for my own , let the devil , or let Dennis , take it for ever . - How gladly would I give all I am worth , that is to say , my Pastorals , for one of them , and ...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ... Elegant epistles Volledige weergave - 1812 |
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ... Elegant epistles Volledige weergave - 1812 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 57 - I believe you have heard that, after all the applauses of the opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, as he expressed it, for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Pagina 69 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Pagina 68 - Sickness is a sort of early old age : it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our outworks.
Pagina 135 - It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter and are reflected over the place.
Pagina 12 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places; not considering that Nature loves troth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : conceit is to nature, what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Pagina 256 - ... business : my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour, refreshed, serene, and calm ? that the past, and even the present affairs of life stand like objects at a distance from me, where I can keep off the disagreeable so as not to be strongly affected by them, and from whence I can draw the others nearer to me...
Pagina 193 - I HAVE many years ago magnified in my own mind, and repeated to you, a ninth beatitude, added to the eighth in the Scripture : " Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Pagina 135 - ... a perspective glass. When you shut the doors of this grotto, it becomes, on the instant, from a luminous room, a camera obscura ; on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture, in their visible radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene.
Pagina 235 - The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on general societies of men is too severe.
Pagina 206 - As for you, my good friend, I think, since our first acquaintance, there have not been any of those little suspicions or jealousies that often affect the sincerest friendships; I am sure not on my side. I must be so sincere as to own that, though I could not help valuing you for those talents which the world prizes, yet they were not the...