The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews ; The Second Funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 - 418 pagina's |
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... COURT THE GREAT MR . CONGREVE . · • PAGE Frontispiece 9 23 55 ADDISON AT " CHILD'S " 89 CAPTAIN STEELE . 109 MR . GAY 155 MR . POPE 181 LORD BATHURST INTRODUCES HIMSELF TO MR . STERNE . 245 GOLDSMITH AT PLAY 279 CRITICAL REVIEWS ...
... COURT THE GREAT MR . CONGREVE . · • PAGE Frontispiece 9 23 55 ADDISON AT " CHILD'S " 89 CAPTAIN STEELE . 109 MR . GAY 155 MR . POPE 181 LORD BATHURST INTRODUCES HIMSELF TO MR . STERNE . 245 GOLDSMITH AT PLAY 279 CRITICAL REVIEWS ...
Pagina 8
... court , where I affect to turn from a lord to the meanest of my acquaintances . " Journal to Stella . " I am plagued with bad authors , verse and prose , who send me their books and poems , the vilest I ever saw ; but I have given DEAN ...
... court , where I affect to turn from a lord to the meanest of my acquaintances . " Journal to Stella . " I am plagued with bad authors , verse and prose , who send me their books and poems , the vilest I ever saw ; but I have given DEAN ...
Pagina 9
... Court , and gives them over to followers of his own . The great prize has not come yet . The coach with the mitre and crosier in it , which he intends to have for his share , has been delayed on the way from St. James's ; and he waits ...
... Court , and gives them over to followers of his own . The great prize has not come yet . The coach with the mitre and crosier in it , which he intends to have for his share , has been delayed on the way from St. James's ; and he waits ...
Pagina 12
... He is a Scotch rogue , one Ridpath . They get out upon bail , and write on . We take them again , and get fresh bail ; so it goes round . " -Journal to Stella . That Swift was born at No. 7 Hoey's Court , 12 ENGLISH HUMORISTS .
... He is a Scotch rogue , one Ridpath . They get out upon bail , and write on . We take them again , and get fresh bail ; so it goes round . " -Journal to Stella . That Swift was born at No. 7 Hoey's Court , 12 ENGLISH HUMORISTS .
Pagina 13
... Court , Dublin , on the 30th November , 1667 , is a certain fact , of which nobody will deny the sister island the honor and glory ; but , it seems to me , he was no more an Irishman than a man born of English parents at Cal- cutta is a ...
... Court , Dublin , on the 30th November , 1667 , is a certain fact , of which nobody will deny the sister island the honor and glory ; but , it seems to me , he was no more an Irishman than a man born of English parents at Cal- cutta is a ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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.