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... taste for the trifling distinctions that finery can confer , suffer her not for a moment to fancy , when she appears in public , that sir Edward or the Colonel are finer gentlemen than her husband . The bane of married happiness among ...
... taste for the trifling distinctions that finery can confer , suffer her not for a moment to fancy , when she appears in public , that sir Edward or the Colonel are finer gentlemen than her husband . The bane of married happiness among ...
Pagina 46
... not more pleasing to the taste ; but my leaf - gold is tarnished , and has received such a tinge from the vapours that are ever brooding over my mind , that I 46 BOOK VI . ELEGANT EPISTLES . From the same to the Rev John Newton.
... not more pleasing to the taste ; but my leaf - gold is tarnished , and has received such a tinge from the vapours that are ever brooding over my mind , that I 46 BOOK VI . ELEGANT EPISTLES . From the same to the Rev John Newton.
Pagina 53
... taste , should resemble us in any thing else . But in every thing else , I suppose , they were our counterparts exactly ; and time , that has sewed up the slashed sleeve , and reduced the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk ...
... taste , should resemble us in any thing else . But in every thing else , I suppose , they were our counterparts exactly ; and time , that has sewed up the slashed sleeve , and reduced the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk ...
Pagina 57
... taste of the day is refined , and delicate to excess ; and that to dis- gust that delicacy of taste , by a slovenly inatten- tion to it , would be to forfeit , at once , all hope of being useful ; and for this reason , though I have ...
... taste of the day is refined , and delicate to excess ; and that to dis- gust that delicacy of taste , by a slovenly inatten- tion to it , would be to forfeit , at once , all hope of being useful ; and for this reason , though I have ...
Pagina 72
... taste for it from my father , who succeeded well in it himself , and who lived at a time when the best pieces in that way were produced . What can be prettier than Gay's ballad , or rather Swift's , Ar- buthnot's , Pope's , and Gay's ...
... taste for it from my father , who succeeded well in it himself , and who lived at a time when the best pieces in that way were produced . What can be prettier than Gay's ballad , or rather Swift's , Ar- buthnot's , Pope's , and Gay's ...
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acquaintance Adieu Æneid affection agreeable amuse ANNA SEWARD Anne's Hill appears attention Aulus Gellius beautiful believe BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER C. J. FOX character Cicero comfort DEAR FRIEND dear sir dearest cousin death delight EDWARD GIBBON elegant entertained expect favour feel friendship genius GIBBON give happy hear heart Homer honour hope hour human Iliad imagination JAMES MACPHERSON Johnson Julius Cæsar kind labour LADY HESKETH Lausanne least less LETTER Lichfield live lord Lucretius madam manner mean melancholy ment mention mind morning nature never obliged Olney Ovid perhaps person Pict pleased pleasure poem poet poetic poetry present reason received remember rusal sensible sent servant speak spirit suffered suppose sure taste tell ther thing thought Thurcaston tion truth UNWIN verse Virgil virtue WAKEFIELD WILLIAM COWPER wish write
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Pagina 5 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and...
Pagina 6 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Pagina 23 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good: I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Pagina 6 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 6 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 5 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was over-powered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
Pagina 23 - I put myself into violent motion, and I think repeated it; but all was vain. I then went to bed, and, strange as it may seem, I think slept. When I saw light, it was time to contrive what I should do. Though God stopped my speech, he left me my hand : I enjoyed a mercy which was not granted to my dear friend Lawrence, who now perhaps overlooks me as I am writing, and rejoices that I have what he wanted. My first note was necessarily to my servant, who came in talking, and could not immediately comprehend...
Pagina 5 - When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Pagina 48 - So long as I am pleased with an employment, I am capable of unwearied application, because my feelings are all of the intense kind. I never received a little pleasure from any thing in my life; if I am delighted, it is in the extreme.
Pagina 101 - ... either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making. It is the box in which have been lodged all my hares, and in which lodges Puss at present ; but he, poor fellow, is worn out with age, and promises to die before you can see him. On the right hand stands a cupboard, the work of the same author ; it was once a dove-cage, but I transformed it. Opposite to you stands a table, which I also made ; but a merciless servant having scrubbed it...