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Pagina xxiv
... thing of Grainger's rats'— and adds this comment to the Bishop's original defence of his friend ; ' the above was written by the Bishop when he had not the poem itself to recur to ; and though the account given of it was true at one ...
... thing of Grainger's rats'— and adds this comment to the Bishop's original defence of his friend ; ' the above was written by the Bishop when he had not the poem itself to recur to ; and though the account given of it was true at one ...
Pagina lv
... thing that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord MACARTNEY favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have 147 availed myself . On the first leaf I found in ADVERTISEMENT . There are some men I ...
... thing that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord MACARTNEY favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have 147 availed myself . On the first leaf I found in ADVERTISEMENT . There are some men I ...
Pagina 4
... thing you want to be satified in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had befor Toland and Desmaiseaux , are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had ...
... thing you want to be satified in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had befor Toland and Desmaiseaux , are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had ...
Pagina 7
... thing which my illustrious friend thought it worth his while to express , with any degree of point , • Rambler , No. 60 . Cor . et Ad . — Line 2 from foot : For " almost anything , ” read “ anything , however slight . " should perish ...
... thing which my illustrious friend thought it worth his while to express , with any degree of point , • Rambler , No. 60 . Cor . et Ad . — Line 2 from foot : For " almost anything , ” read “ anything , however slight . " should perish ...
Pagina 8
... things he saith are always of some value . And other ancient authours have the same phrase , nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am certain , that considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and ...
... things he saith are always of some value . And other ancient authours have the same phrase , nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am certain , that considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and ...
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Pagina 256 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Pagina 256 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 241 - That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
Pagina 41 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Pagina 470 - Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again.
Pagina 411 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Pagina 158 - Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 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...
Pagina 275 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Pagina 6 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark, that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving z with violent commotion.
Pagina 119 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...