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Pagina 13
... person , even in the lower grades of society , who pretended to any reading , ever thought of making love in his own . person . The proper tone of feeling was not acquired till he had invested himself with the pastoral attributes of ...
... person , even in the lower grades of society , who pretended to any reading , ever thought of making love in his own . person . The proper tone of feeling was not acquired till he had invested himself with the pastoral attributes of ...
Pagina 17
... person . ' This whole celebrated piece is a perfect contradiction to good manners , good sense , and common honesty ; and as there is nothing in it but what is built upon the ruin of virtue and innocence , according to the notion of ...
... person . ' This whole celebrated piece is a perfect contradiction to good manners , good sense , and common honesty ; and as there is nothing in it but what is built upon the ruin of virtue and innocence , according to the notion of ...
Pagina 56
... persons of quality , " the principal entertainment was provided by the drama . But the stage , seldom a lucrative profession , was then crowded with writers whose fertile , if not very lofty , invention kept down the price of plays ...
... persons of quality , " the principal entertainment was provided by the drama . But the stage , seldom a lucrative profession , was then crowded with writers whose fertile , if not very lofty , invention kept down the price of plays ...
Pagina 62
... person to whom the sacer vates required for the occasion would probably be known . Halifax has had the misfortune to have his character transmitted to posterity by two poets who hated him either on public or private grounds . Swift ...
... person to whom the sacer vates required for the occasion would probably be known . Halifax has had the misfortune to have his character transmitted to posterity by two poets who hated him either on public or private grounds . Swift ...
Pagina 63
... person who possessed every qualification for the task , he could not ask him to undertake it . Being pressed for his reasons , he replied " that while too many fools and blockheads were maintained in their pride and luxury at the public ...
... person who possessed every qualification for the task , he could not ask him to undertake it . Being pressed for his reasons , he replied " that while too many fools and blockheads were maintained in their pride and luxury at the public ...
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Pagina 129 - I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream...
Pagina 192 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Pagina 143 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Pagina 128 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Pagina 134 - While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Pagina 177 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Pagina 78 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Pagina 3 - Shalum, just finished for the next day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which...
Pagina 94 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Pagina 3 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...