The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews ; The Second Funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 - 418 pagina's |
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Pagina 72
... artists of our own ; looking at that calm , fair face , and clear countenance those chiselled features pure and cold , I can't but fancy that this great man - in this re- spect , like him of whom we spoke in the last lect- ure was also ...
... artists of our own ; looking at that calm , fair face , and clear countenance those chiselled features pure and cold , I can't but fancy that this great man - in this re- spect , like him of whom we spoke in the last lect- ure was also ...
Pagina 160
... artist that England has seen . He polished , he refined , he thought ; he took thoughts from other works to adorn and com- plete his own ; borrowing an idea or a cadence from another poet as he would a figure or a simile from a flower ...
... artist that England has seen . He polished , he refined , he thought ; he took thoughts from other works to adorn and com- plete his own ; borrowing an idea or a cadence from another poet as he would a figure or a simile from a flower ...
Pagina 183
... artist of his time , and who painted for him a portrait of his old mother , and for whose pic- ture he asked and thanked Richardson in one of the most delightful letters that ever was penned , 1 — and ancient literature , and able to ...
... artist of his time , and who painted for him a portrait of his old mother , and for whose pic- ture he asked and thanked Richardson in one of the most delightful letters that ever was penned , 1 — and ancient literature , and able to ...
Pagina 184
... artist of his day . ' It is affecting to note , through Pope's Correspon- dence , the marked way in which his friends , the greatest , the most famous , and wittiest men of the time generals and statesmen , philosophers and divines ...
... artist of his day . ' It is affecting to note , through Pope's Correspon- dence , the marked way in which his friends , the greatest , the most famous , and wittiest men of the time generals and statesmen , philosophers and divines ...
Pagina 196
... artist . He has to de- scribe the negotiations for a marriage pending between the daughter of a rich citizen Alderman and young Lord Viscount Squanderfield , the dissipated son of a gouty old Earl . Pride and pomposity appear in every ...
... artist . He has to de- scribe the negotiations for a marriage pending between the daughter of a rich citizen Alderman and young Lord Viscount Squanderfield , the dissipated son of a gouty old Earl . Pride and pomposity appear in every ...
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acquainted Addison admirable artist asked beautiful Beggar's Opera Belle Poule Bolingbroke called Captain character charming coffin Congreve court Cruikshank Dean dear death delightful Dick dinner Dunciad English eyes face famous fancy father French genius gentleman George Cruikshank give Goldsmith grace hand happy head heart hero Hogarth honest honor humor Jack Sheppard John Gay Johnson Joseph Addison kind King lady laugh letters lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke manner married MATTHEW PRIOR moral Napoleon nature never night passed person Peter Schlemihl picture pleasure poet poor Pope Pope's portrait pretty Prince de Joinville round satire smiling speak Spence's Anecdotes Steele Stella Sterne Street Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thought told Tom and Jerry Tom Jones verses whilst wife woman write wrote young
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.