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... excellence , seldom employed to any virtuous purpose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show what fine things one man of parts can say of another ; and ...
... excellence , seldom employed to any virtuous purpose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show what fine things one man of parts can say of another ; and ...
Pàgina 15
... excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty ; and Halifax , the general patron , accepted the dedication ...
... excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty ; and Halifax , the general patron , accepted the dedication ...
Pàgina 31
... excellence . My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but Pindaric liberty was to be expected . There is in his few ...
... excellence . My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but Pindaric liberty was to be expected . There is in his few ...
Pàgina 45
... excellence , and yet to have cost him very little labour . At sixteen he had in his father's opinion made advances in learning sufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Middle Temple , where for ...
... excellence , and yet to have cost him very little labour . At sixteen he had in his father's opinion made advances in learning sufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Middle Temple , where for ...
Pàgina 80
... excellence . Of very extensive learning he has in- deed given no proofs . He seems to have had small acquaint- ance with the sciences , and to have read little except Latin and French ; but of the Latin poets his Dialogues on Medals ...
... excellence . Of very extensive learning he has in- deed given no proofs . He seems to have had small acquaint- ance with the sciences , and to have read little except Latin and French ; but of the Latin poets his Dialogues on Medals ...
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Pàgina 19 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Pàgina 148 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Pàgina 163 - A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
Pàgina 222 - ... and relieved. Sir Richard Steele, having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character, promoted his interest with the utmost zeal, related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that J ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.
Pàgina 66 - The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design.
Pàgina 104 - It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism.
Pàgina 88 - About things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here excites or assuages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
Pàgina 184 - Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England ; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Pàgina 30 - ... was expressed by a loud hum, continued in proportion to their zeal or pleasure. When Burnet preached, part of his congregation hummed so loudly and so long, that he sat down to enjoy it, and rubbed his face with his handkerchief. When Sprat preached, he likewise was honoured with the like animating hum ; but he stretched out his hand to the congregation, and cried, " Peace, peace, I pray you peace.
Pàgina 20 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions, such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.