The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of AmericaSmith, Elder&Company, 1853 - 309 Seiten |
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... spirit , for I would give it the proper name , was ever untractable . The motions of his genius were often irregular . He assumed more the air of a patron than of a friend . He affected rather to dictate than advise . " ORRERY . ** " An ...
... spirit , for I would give it the proper name , was ever untractable . The motions of his genius were often irregular . He assumed more the air of a patron than of a friend . He affected rather to dictate than advise . " ORRERY . ** " An ...
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... spirit , to conceal their names ; it is certain that all persons of true genius or knowledge have an invincible modesty and suspicion of themselves upon their first sending their thoughts into the world . " This " invincible modesty ...
... spirit , to conceal their names ; it is certain that all persons of true genius or knowledge have an invincible modesty and suspicion of themselves upon their first sending their thoughts into the world . " This " invincible modesty ...
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... , and I used to suspect a hundred reasons ? I have plucked up my spirits since then , faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman . ' - Journal to Stella . those enormous periwigs , to the swarthy , uncouth , 16 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... , and I used to suspect a hundred reasons ? I have plucked up my spirits since then , faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman . ' - Journal to Stella . those enormous periwigs , to the swarthy , uncouth , 16 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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... spirit through the whole . " Isn't that line in which grief is described as putting the menials into a mourning livery , a fine image ? One of the menials wrote it , who did not like that Temple livery nor those twenty - pound wages ...
... spirit through the whole . " Isn't that line in which grief is described as putting the menials into a mourning livery , a fine image ? One of the menials wrote it , who did not like that Temple livery nor those twenty - pound wages ...
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... spirits . Your good be- haviour on this article will concern your whole community : deny the fact with all solemnity of imprecations : a hundred of your brethren , if they can be admitted , will attend about the bar , and be ready upon ...
... spirits . Your good be- haviour on this article will concern your whole community : deny the fact with all solemnity of imprecations : a hundred of your brethren , if they can be admitted , will attend about the bar , and be ready upon ...
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acquainted Addison admire asked beautiful Beggar's Opera Bolingbroke called Captain character charming cheerfulness Congreve court Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Drapier's Letters Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England English Humourists eyes face famous fancy father fond fortune genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy heart hero Hogarth honest honour humour Iliad Irish John Dennis John Gay Johnson Joseph Addison Journal to Stella kind King lady laugh letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR nature never night passed person pity pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's pretty satire says sing Sir William Temple smile speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne story Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thee thou thought told Tom Jones truth Vanessa verses whilst wife woman writing wrote young
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Seite 194 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 141 - 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.
Seite 172 - 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.
Seite 78 - I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less.
Seite 135 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Seite 194 - Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Seite 98 - There is no place of general resort, wherein I do not often make my appearance ; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's...
Seite 35 - He said they commonly acted like mortals, till about thirty years old, after which by degrees they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession : for otherwise there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore...
Seite 36 - Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the deaths of the old.
Seite 163 - Unblamed thro' life, lamented in thy End. These are thy Honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with Heroes, or with Kings thy dust: But that the Worthy and the Good shall say. Striking their pensive bosoms — 'Here lies GAY!