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... interest , that it was bad as a whole , that it would remind every reader of the Femmes Savantes , which , strange to say , she had never read , and that she could not sustain so close a compa- rison with Molière . This opinion , in ...
... interest , that it was bad as a whole , that it would remind every reader of the Femmes Savantes , which , strange to say , she had never read , and that she could not sustain so close a compa- rison with Molière . This opinion , in ...
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... interest ; for they took her from a situation where she was likely to become rich , and put her into a situation in which she could not but continue poor . Their object could not be to obtain an eminently useful waiting maid ; for it is ...
... interest ; for they took her from a situation where she was likely to become rich , and put her into a situation in which she could not but continue poor . Their object could not be to obtain an eminently useful waiting maid ; for it is ...
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... interest in the trial , and when she could not go herself to Westminster Hall , liked to receive a report of what had passed from a person who had singular powers of observation , and who was , moreover , 28 DIARY AND LETTERS OF.
... interest in the trial , and when she could not go herself to Westminster Hall , liked to receive a report of what had passed from a person who had singular powers of observation , and who was , moreover , 28 DIARY AND LETTERS OF.
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... interest , showed himself to be a badhearted man . Nobody wonders at this in a gentle- man usher : but it is melancholy to see genius sinking into such debasement . During more than two years after the King's recovery , Frances dragged ...
... interest , showed himself to be a badhearted man . Nobody wonders at this in a gentle- man usher : but it is melancholy to see genius sinking into such debasement . During more than two years after the King's recovery , Frances dragged ...
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... interest equal , and in beauty of execution far superior to those of Rome . If it were necessary to find any further proof that Addison's classical knowledge was confined within narrow limits , that proof would be furnished by his Essay ...
... interest equal , and in beauty of execution far superior to those of Rome . If it were necessary to find any further proof that Addison's classical knowledge was confined within narrow limits , that proof would be furnished by his Essay ...
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Addison admiration ALCIBIADES appears Barère Bute Cæsar called CALLIDEMUS cause character circumstances civil clause committed considered court crime criminal death defended Demosthenes doubt Duke eloquence eminent England English Euripides evidence evil favour favourite feeling France Frances Burney French friends genius George Grenville Girondists Grenville Hippolyte Carnot HIPPOMACHUS honour House of Bourbon House of Commons house of Hanover human imprisonment imputation India inflicted Jacobin Johnson King language literary lived Lord Lord Rockingham Lordship in Council Madame D'Arblay manner means ment mind minister Miss Burney murder nation nature never offence opinion orator Parliament party passed passion penal law person Petrarch Pitt poem poet political Pope produced propose punishment Robespierre scarcely seems society soon SPEUSIPPUS spirit strong suffered talents theft things thought tion Tory tribunals truth Whig whole writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 3 - Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature and our manners. The account which she gives of the king's illness will, we think, be more valued by the historians of a future age than any equal portions of Pepys' or Evelyn's Diaries." — Edinburgh Review. " This publication will take its place in the...
Seite 16 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
Seite 43 - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Seite 1 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature...
Seite 654 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Seite 697 - Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, — wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep, — there is exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens.
Seite 236 - Dashwood's financial statement had been confused and absurd beyond belief, and had been received by the House with roars of laughter. He had sense enough to be conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed in a comical fit of despair, "What shall I do? The boys will point at me in the street, and cry, 'There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever was.
Seite 341 - A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year ; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me, without leaving any impression.
Seite 98 - We have not the least doubt that, if Addison had written a novel, on an extensive plan, it would have been superior to any that we possess. As it is, he is entitled to be considered, not only as the greatest of the English Essayists, but as the forerunner of the great English Novelists.
Seite 101 - Tory writers, as a gentleman of wit and virtue, in whose friendship many persons of both parties were happy, and whose name ought not to be mixed up with factious squabbles. Of the jests by which the triumph of the "Whig party was disturbed, the most severe and happy was Bolingbroke's. Between two acts, he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.