The Great Conversers: And Other EssaysS.C. Griggs, 1876 - 304 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... poet dull and heavy after the first had been drained , somewhat sparkling after the second bottle , and , after the third , more stupid and muzzy than ever . " Your friend , " said the Earl , after he had left with his introducer , " is ...
... poet dull and heavy after the first had been drained , somewhat sparkling after the second bottle , and , after the third , more stupid and muzzy than ever . " Your friend , " said the Earl , after he had left with his introducer , " is ...
Pagina 20
... poet , Donne ; that encyclopedia on legs , Selden ; Beaumont , Fletcher , Chapman , Raleigh , and other gods of intellect , who , seated in a room well - filled with tobacco smoke , and at a table covered with cups of ca- nary , passed ...
... poet , Donne ; that encyclopedia on legs , Selden ; Beaumont , Fletcher , Chapman , Raleigh , and other gods of intellect , who , seated in a room well - filled with tobacco smoke , and at a table covered with cups of ca- nary , passed ...
Pagina 21
... poets were insolently magiste- rial , and remind one of Scaliger . The remark in which he most vividly photographs himself , is this : " He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe , about which he hath seen Tartars ...
... poets were insolently magiste- rial , and remind one of Scaliger . The remark in which he most vividly photographs himself , is this : " He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe , about which he hath seen Tartars ...
Pagina 28
... poet's discourse , that he could talk her off her legs . In the next age we have Sir Walter Scott , whose conversation was not brilliant , but frank , hearty , picturesque , and dramatic . He was a capital listener as well as a good ...
... poet's discourse , that he could talk her off her legs . In the next age we have Sir Walter Scott , whose conversation was not brilliant , but frank , hearty , picturesque , and dramatic . He was a capital listener as well as a good ...
Pagina 31
... poet Rogers , according to Byron , was silent and severe . When he did talk , he talked well ; and on all subjects of taste , his delicacy of expression was as pure as his poetry . Unfortunately , he was noted for the in- dulgence of a ...
... poet Rogers , according to Byron , was silent and severe . When he did talk , he talked well ; and on all subjects of taste , his delicacy of expression was as pure as his poetry . Unfortunately , he was noted for the in- dulgence of a ...
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Pagina 96 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Pagina 64 - Even as those bees of Trebizond, — Which from the sunniest flowers that glad With their pure smile the gardens round, Draw venom forth that drives men mad...
Pagina 24 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 32 - He always made the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words.
Pagina 12 - Addison was the most timorous and awkward man that he ever saw." And Addison, speaking of his own deficience in conversation, used to say of himself, that, with respect to intellectual "wealth, he could draw bills for a thousand pounds, though he had not a guinea in his pocket.
Pagina 158 - These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other ; where reason is perplexed ; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk.
Pagina 4 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Pagina 40 - He sings rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up near the beginning some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting-needle he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then to let fall a row.
Pagina 66 - Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
Pagina 61 - While Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown — He asked for bread, and he received a stone.