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Pàgina 35
... endeavoured ra- ther to divert than aftonish ; that his thoughts fel- dom aspired to fublimity ; and that , if his verse was eafy and his images familiar , he attained what he defired . His purpose is to be merry ; but perhaps , fo ...
... endeavoured ra- ther to divert than aftonish ; that his thoughts fel- dom aspired to fublimity ; and that , if his verse was eafy and his images familiar , he attained what he defired . His purpose is to be merry ; but perhaps , fo ...
Pàgina 55
... endeavoured to raise a faction against it in the College , and found fome phyficians mean enough to folicit their patron- age , by betraying to them the counfels of the Col- lege . The greater part , however , enforced by a new edict ...
... endeavoured to raise a faction against it in the College , and found fome phyficians mean enough to folicit their patron- age , by betraying to them the counfels of the Col- lege . The greater part , however , enforced by a new edict ...
Pàgina 61
... endeavoured to comprehend law , not as a feries of precedents , or collection of pofitive precepts , but as a fyftem of rational government , and impartial juftice . When he was nineteen , he was , by the death of his father , left more ...
... endeavoured to comprehend law , not as a feries of precedents , or collection of pofitive precepts , but as a fyftem of rational government , and impartial juftice . When he was nineteen , he was , by the death of his father , left more ...
Pàgina 103
... endeavoured to alarm the nation , by a pamphlet called The Plebeian . To this an an- fwer was published by Addifon , under the title of The Old Whig , in which it is not discovered that Steele was then known to be the advocate for the ...
... endeavoured to alarm the nation , by a pamphlet called The Plebeian . To this an an- fwer was published by Addifon , under the title of The Old Whig , in which it is not discovered that Steele was then known to be the advocate for the ...
Pàgina 105
... endeavoured to reclaim him ; but his arguments and expoftulations had no effect . One experiment , how- ever , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end , he directed the young lord to be called ; and when he defired ...
... endeavoured to reclaim him ; but his arguments and expoftulations had no effect . One experiment , how- ever , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end , he directed the young lord to be called ; and when he defired ...
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Pàgina 26 - 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.
Pàgina 91 - The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
Pàgina 62 - Lovelace; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness.
Pàgina 112 - He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Greek,
Pàgina 26 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Pàgina 96 - Not long afterwards, an attempt was made to revive the Spectator, at a time indeed by no means favourable to literature, when the...
Pàgina 44 - To which the King is said to have replied, " You do well to put me in the way of making a man of him ;" and ordered him a pension of five hundred pounds.
Pàgina 192 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Pàgina 112 - He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles.
Pàgina 243 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree 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.