Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 |
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Pàgina 72
... Beggar's Opera , Act iii , the brothel - house keeper says : - ' To be sure , of late years I have been a great sufferer by the parliament . Three thousand pounds would hardly make me amends . The act for destroying the Mint was a ...
... Beggar's Opera , Act iii , the brothel - house keeper says : - ' To be sure , of late years I have been a great sufferer by the parliament . Three thousand pounds would hardly make me amends . The act for destroying the Mint was a ...
Pàgina 101
... Beggar's Opera . ' CIBBER , Apology , p . 142 ; post , GAY , 20 . 6 Mrs. Porter acted Lucia . Addi- son's Works , i . 172. Johnson had known her . Boswell's Johnson , iv . 243 ; John . Letters , ii . 344 . 63 € 4 65 that compliment ...
... Beggar's Opera . ' CIBBER , Apology , p . 142 ; post , GAY , 20 . 6 Mrs. Porter acted Lucia . Addi- son's Works , i . 172. Johnson had known her . Boswell's Johnson , iv . 243 ; John . Letters , ii . 344 . 63 € 4 65 that compliment ...
Pàgina 234
... Beggar's Opera ( Air liii ) : 2 ' One wife is too much for most husbands to hear , But two at a time there's no mortal can bear ' is imitated from Congreve's Judg- ment of Paris : ' Apart let me view then each heavenly fair , For three ...
... Beggar's Opera ( Air liii ) : 2 ' One wife is too much for most husbands to hear , But two at a time there's no mortal can bear ' is imitated from Congreve's Judg- ment of Paris : ' Apart let me view then each heavenly fair , For three ...
Pàgina 270
... Beggar's Opera , had the mortification to see it again rejected ' . In the last year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made secretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambassador to the court of Hanover 2 . This was a station that naturally gave ...
... Beggar's Opera , had the mortification to see it again rejected ' . In the last year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made secretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambassador to the court of Hanover 2 . This was a station that naturally gave ...
Pàgina 275
... Beggar's Opera . This play , written in ridicule of the musical Italian Drama 3 , was first offered to Cibber and his brethren at Drury - Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich had the effect , as was ludicrously said , of ...
... Beggar's Opera . This play , written in ridicule of the musical Italian Drama 3 , was first offered to Cibber and his brethren at Drury - Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich had the effect , as was ludicrously said , of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 150 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pàgina 276 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Pàgina 34 - ... a true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king...
Pàgina 146 - Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Pàgina 149 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Pàgina 230 - Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen— Leon. Hark! Aim No, all is hush'd, and still as death — 'tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Pàgina 434 - Savage did not exempt him; or if those who in confidence of superior capacities or attainments disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Pàgina 117 - Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life, and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him ; but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to be tried: when he found his life near its end, he directed the young Lord to be called; and when he desired, with great tenderness, to hear his last injunctions, told him, I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
Pàgina 253 - The incessant attacks of his enemies, whether serious or merry, are never discovered to have disturbed his quiet, or to have lessened his confidence in himself.
Pàgina 249 - Blackmore led him to gratify, and he produced (1721) a new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...