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... , in his Life of Swift , observes that this account was really written by the Dean , and now exists in his own handwriting in the library of Dublin College . VOL . IIL . B Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he.
... , in his Life of Swift , observes that this account was really written by the Dean , and now exists in his own handwriting in the library of Dublin College . VOL . IIL . B Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he.
Pagina 25
... College in Cambridge and Christ- church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors of Trinity College having the pre- ference of choice that year , they resolutely elected him ; who yet ...
... College in Cambridge and Christ- church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors of Trinity College having the pre- ference of choice that year , they resolutely elected him ; who yet ...
Pagina 26
... college , and that college the ornament of the most learned and polite University ; and it was his happiness to have several contem- poraries and fellow - students who exercised and excited this virtue in themselves and others , thereby ...
... college , and that college the ornament of the most learned and polite University ; and it was his happiness to have several contem- poraries and fellow - students who exercised and excited this virtue in themselves and others , thereby ...
Pagina 27
... college . His conversation was pleasant and instructive ; and what Horace said of Plotius , Va- rius , and Virgil , might justly be applied to him : " Nil ego contulerim jucundo fanus amico . " Sat. v . 1. 1 . As correct a writer as he ...
... college . His conversation was pleasant and instructive ; and what Horace said of Plotius , Va- rius , and Virgil , might justly be applied to him : " Nil ego contulerim jucundo fanus amico . " Sat. v . 1. 1 . As correct a writer as he ...
Pagina 32
... College , an exact critic in the Greek tongue , from whom it came to my hands . The French version of Monsieur Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short of it . He proposed a large addition to this work , of notes and observations ...
... College , an exact critic in the Greek tongue , from whom it came to my hands . The French version of Monsieur Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short of it . He proposed a large addition to this work , of notes and observations ...
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Pagina 182 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Pagina 148 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust
Pagina 248 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Pagina 225 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Pagina 22 - Whatever he did, he seemed willing to do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule ; he, therefore, who indulges peculiar habits, is worse than others, if he be not better.
Pagina 219 - The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every other writer in poetical prudence : he wrote in such a. manner as might expose him to few hazards.
Pagina 249 - Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light;" but others, and among them Dr.
Pagina 215 - ... a letter is addressed to a single mind, of which the prejudices and partialities are known, and must therefore please, if not by favouring them, by forbearing to oppose them.
Pagina 93 - Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, "Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading 'Don Quixote
Pagina 22 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his letters^ an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another.