Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review [microform], Volume 4Longmans, Green, 1885 |
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Pagina 3
... never before been seen out of a madhouse . He was exact and diligent in the transacting of business ; and he was the first who formed the design of obtaining for Prussia a place among the European powers , altogether out of pro- portion ...
... never before been seen out of a madhouse . He was exact and diligent in the transacting of business ; and he was the first who formed the design of obtaining for Prussia a place among the European powers , altogether out of pro- portion ...
Pagina 5
... never have seen any harder service than a sham fight in the fields near Berlin . But the great military means which he had collected were destined to be employed by a spirit far more daring and inventive than his own . : Frederic ...
... never have seen any harder service than a sham fight in the fields near Berlin . But the great military means which he had collected were destined to be employed by a spirit far more daring and inventive than his own . : Frederic ...
Pagina 8
... never found in his father ; his table was not sumptuous , but he had wholesome food in sufficient quantity to appease hunger : he could read the Henriade without being kicked , and could play on his flute without having it broken over ...
... never found in his father ; his table was not sumptuous , but he had wholesome food in sufficient quantity to appease hunger : he could read the Henriade without being kicked , and could play on his flute without having it broken over ...
Pagina 12
... never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be blamed for thinking that no glory can exceed that of the moon . A man who has seen neither moon nor sun , cannot be blamed for talking of the ...
... never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be blamed for thinking that no glory can exceed that of the moon . A man who has seen neither moon nor sun , cannot be blamed for talking of the ...
Pagina 15
... never degenerated into a monomania , like that which led his father to pay fancy prices for giants . Frederic was as thrifty about money as any prince or any private man ought to be . But he did not conceive , like his father , that it ...
... never degenerated into a monomania , like that which led his father to pay fancy prices for giants . Frederic was as thrifty about money as any prince or any private man ought to be . But he did not conceive , like his father , that it ...
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Pagina 149 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Pagina 114 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
Pagina 155 - His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper ; but his gaiety is that of a foolish overgrown schoolboy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance. He disdains his father for his close attention to business, and love of money ; though he seems himself to have no talents, spirit, or generosity, to make him superior to either. His chief delight appears to be tormenting and ridiculing his sisters ; who, in return, most heartily despise him.
Pagina 306 - We are inclined to think, on the whole, that the worst administration which has governed England since the Revolution was that of George Grenville. His public acts may be classed under two heads — outrages on the liberty of the people, and outrages on the dignity of the Crown.
Pagina 22 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
Pagina 242 - B known to us of their intercourse tends to prove, that it was not the intercourse of two accomplices in crime. These are some of the lines in which Tickell...
Pagina 178 - ... pretended to serve. It had become necessary to recruit for the public service from a very different class, from that class of which Addison was the representative. The close of the Minister's letter was remarkable. " I am called," he said, "an enemy of the Church. But I will never do it any other injury than keeping Mr. Addison out of it.
Pagina 192 - Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or remit a subsidy : he was also well versed in the history of running horses and fighting cocks : but his acquaintance among the poets was very small. He consulted Halifax ; but Halifax affected to decline the office of adviser.
Pagina 227 - Addison was described, even by the bitterest Tory writers, as a gentleman of wit and virtue, in whose friendship many persons of both parties were happy, and whose name ought not to be mixed up with factious squabbles. Of the jests by which the triumph of the Whig party was disturbed, the most severe and happy was Bolingbroke's. Between two acts, he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against...
Pagina 196 - Addison spoke, not of a storm, but of the storm. The great tempest of November 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men.