A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1864 |
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... writing sort . I remember Pope , and Paterson , and Malloch , and Lyttelton , and Dr. Armstrong ; and Andrew Millar , the bookseller , who had a house near Thomson's , in Kew - lane . Mr. Robertson , one of the company , could tell you ...
... writing sort . I remember Pope , and Paterson , and Malloch , and Lyttelton , and Dr. Armstrong ; and Andrew Millar , the bookseller , who had a house near Thomson's , in Kew - lane . Mr. Robertson , one of the company , could tell you ...
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... writer of verses herself . According to Dr. Johnson , however , Thomson forfeited her friendship by carousing with her lord , instead of assisting her in her studies , and was never invited to her house again . Thomson , notwithstanding ...
... writer of verses herself . According to Dr. Johnson , however , Thomson forfeited her friendship by carousing with her lord , instead of assisting her in her studies , and was never invited to her house again . Thomson , notwithstanding ...
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... poem ? " the Duke smiled , and said : " It was the best bargain he ever made in his life , for it was fairly worth four thousand . " When the Doctor was deeply engaged in writing one of 14 ANECDOTES OF FIELDING'S " AMELIA DR YOUNG'S POETRY.
... poem ? " the Duke smiled , and said : " It was the best bargain he ever made in his life , for it was fairly worth four thousand . " When the Doctor was deeply engaged in writing one of 14 ANECDOTES OF FIELDING'S " AMELIA DR YOUNG'S POETRY.
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... writing of Pamela ” in the following manner : " Two booksellers , my particular friends , entreated me to write for them a volume of letters , in a common style , on such subjects as might be of use to those country readers who were ...
... writing of Pamela ” in the following manner : " Two booksellers , my particular friends , entreated me to write for them a volume of letters , in a common style , on such subjects as might be of use to those country readers who were ...
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... writer , Sterne , after being long the idol of this town , died in a mean lodging , without a single friend who felt interest in his fate except Becket , his bookseller , who was the only person that attended his interment . He was ...
... writer , Sterne , after being long the idol of this town , died in a mean lodging , without a single friend who felt interest in his fate except Becket , his bookseller , who was the only person that attended his interment . He was ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina xii - I wondered to hear him say of Gulliver's Travels, ' When once you have thought of big men and little men it is very easy to do all the rest.
Pagina 36 - We read The Vicar of Wakefield in youth and in age ; we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature.
Pagina 68 - John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate; 'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.
Pagina viii - ... but, said Savage, he knows not any love but that of the sex; he was perhaps never in cold water in his life; and he indulges himself in all the luxury that comes within his reach.
Pagina 79 - When we retired to tea we found the Comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the Comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, "Don't you think, sir, Milton was a great genius?" Keats looked at me, Wordsworth looked at the Comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing by the fire, turned round and said, "Pray, sir, did you say Milton was a great genius?
Pagina 170 - Mr. Wesley and I lay on the floor; he had my greatcoat for his pillow, and I had Burkitt's ' Notes on the New Testament ' for mine. After being here near three weeks, one morning about three o'clock, Mr. Wesley turned over, and, finding me awake, clapped me on the side, saying: 'Brother Nelson, let us be of good cheer; I have one whole side yet, for the skin is off but on one side.
Pagina 120 - The idea propounded to me, was, that the monthly something should be a vehicle for certain plates to be executed by MR. SEYMOUR ; and there was a notion, either on the part of that admirable humorous artist, or of my visitor, that a
Pagina 35 - It is made up of incongruous parts. The village in its happy days is a true English village. The village in its decay is an Irish village. • The felicity and the misery which Goldsmith has brought close together belong to two different countries, and to two different stages in the progress of societ}'. He had assuredly never seen in his native island such a rural paradise, such a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity, as his
Pagina 222 - If any person be desirous of having an adequate idea of the mischievous effects which have been produced in this country by the French Revolution, and all its attendant horrors, he should attempt some legislative reform, on humane arid liberal principles.
Pagina 120 - Boz," my signature in the Morning Chronicle, appended to the monthly cover of this book, and retained long afterwards, was the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honor of the Vicar of Wakefield ; which being facetiously pronounced through the nose, became Boses, and being shortened, became Boz. " Boz " was a very familiar household word to me, long before I was an author, and so I came to adopt it.