The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews ; The Second Funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 - 418 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... French general the other day who proposed to march into this country and put it to sack and pillage , in revenge for humanity outraged by our conduct at Co- penhagen : there is always some excuse for men of the aggressive turn . They ...
... French general the other day who proposed to march into this country and put it to sack and pillage , in revenge for humanity outraged by our conduct at Co- penhagen : there is always some excuse for men of the aggressive turn . They ...
Pagina 37
... French call bons mots , wherein she excelled beyond belief . " The specimens on record , however , in the Dean's paper , called " Bons Mots de Stella , " scarcely bear out this last part of the panegyric . But the following prove her ...
... French call bons mots , wherein she excelled beyond belief . " The specimens on record , however , in the Dean's paper , called " Bons Mots de Stella , " scarcely bear out this last part of the panegyric . But the following prove her ...
Pagina 49
... French king assailed , the Dutch or Prince Eugene complimented , or the reverse ; and the party in power was presently to provide for the young poet ; and a commissionership , or a post in the Stamps , or the sec- retaryship of an ...
... French king assailed , the Dutch or Prince Eugene complimented , or the reverse ; and the party in power was presently to provide for the young poet ; and a commissionership , or a post in the Stamps , or the sec- retaryship of an ...
Pagina 56
... French baggage , that Comic Muse . She came over from the Continent with Charles ( who chose many more of his female friends there ) at the Restoration a wild , dishevelled Lais , with eyes bright with wit and wine - a saucy court ...
... French baggage , that Comic Muse . She came over from the Continent with Charles ( who chose many more of his female friends there ) at the Restoration a wild , dishevelled Lais , with eyes bright with wit and wine - a saucy court ...
Pagina 60
... French fashion and waited on by English imitators of Scapin and Frontin ) . Their calling is to be irresistible , and to conquer everywhere . Like the heroes of the chiv- alry story , whose long - winded loves and combats they were ...
... French fashion and waited on by English imitators of Scapin and Frontin ) . Their calling is to be irresistible , and to conquer everywhere . Like the heroes of the chiv- alry story , whose long - winded loves and combats they were ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 123 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents...
Pagina 255 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Pagina 124 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Pagina 76 - So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 20 Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Pagina 30 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Pagina 229 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300 ; a considerable proportion of which remained with my clerk...
Pagina 61 - See ! see, she wakes — Sabina wakes ! And now the sun begins to rise ? Less glorious is the morn, that breaks • From his bright beams, than her fair eyes. With light united, day they give ; But different fates ere night fulfil : How many by his warmth will live ! How many will her coldness kill...
Pagina 267 - Sweet AUBURN ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here, as I take my solitary rounds...
Pagina 85 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pagina 23 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.