The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews ; The Second Funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 - 418 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would give it the softest name , was ever untractable . The motions of his genius ...
... believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would give it the softest name , was ever untractable . The motions of his genius ...
Pagina 26
... believe really fer- vent , in their expressions of belief ; they belabored free - thinkers , and stoned imaginary atheists on all sorts of occasions , going out of their way to bawl their own creed , and persecute their neighbor's , and ...
... believe really fer- vent , in their expressions of belief ; they belabored free - thinkers , and stoned imaginary atheists on all sorts of occasions , going out of their way to bawl their own creed , and persecute their neighbor's , and ...
Pagina 38
... believe , ever thought of that grave , that did not cast a flower of pity on it , and write over it a sweet epitaph . Gentle lady , so lovely , so loving , so unhappy ! you have had countless cham- pions ; millions of manly hearts ...
... believe , ever thought of that grave , that did not cast a flower of pity on it , and write over it a sweet epitaph . Gentle lady , so lovely , so loving , so unhappy ! you have had countless cham- pions ; millions of manly hearts ...
Pagina 44
... believe was the truth ; but if he had not married Stella , Vanessa would have had him in spite of himself . When he went back to Ire- land , his Ariadne , not content to remain in her isle , pursued the fugitive Dean . In vain he ...
... believe was the truth ; but if he had not married Stella , Vanessa would have had him in spite of himself . When he went back to Ire- land , his Ariadne , not content to remain in her isle , pursued the fugitive Dean . In vain he ...
Pagina 55
... believe , not very distant from the real character of Con- greve . " Dramatic Miscellanies , vol . iii . 1784 . • She retired from the stage when Mrs. Oldfield began to be the public favorite . She died in 1748 , in the eighty - fifth ...
... believe , not very distant from the real character of Con- greve . " Dramatic Miscellanies , vol . iii . 1784 . • She retired from the stage when Mrs. Oldfield began to be the public favorite . She died in 1748 , in the eighty - fifth ...
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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.