The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Band 7 |
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... wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature and our manners . But to read the Diary is a pleasure ; to read the Memoirs will always be a task . We may , perhaps , afford some harmless amusement to our readers if we ...
... wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature and our manners . But to read the Diary is a pleasure ; to read the Memoirs will always be a task . We may , perhaps , afford some harmless amusement to our readers if we ...
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... wish , mingled with many fears , to appear before the public ; for , timid as Frances was , and bashful , and altogether unaccustomed to hear her own praises , it is clear that she wanted neither a strong passion for distinction , nor a ...
... wish , mingled with many fears , to appear before the public ; for , timid as Frances was , and bashful , and altogether unaccustomed to hear her own praises , it is clear that she wanted neither a strong passion for distinction , nor a ...
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... wish it were in my power , as it is certainly in my desire , to lay on you , I hope you do not think me capable of conferring them , in order to subject your mind or your affairs to a painful and mischievous servitude . " Was this a man ...
... wish it were in my power , as it is certainly in my desire , to lay on you , I hope you do not think me capable of conferring them , in order to subject your mind or your affairs to a painful and mischievous servitude . " Was this a man ...
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... I am sure she would gladly have confined us both in the Bastille , had England such a misery , as a fit place to bring us to our- " A " She was selves , from a daring so outrageous against imperial wishes D 2 MADAME D'ARBLAY . 35.
... I am sure she would gladly have confined us both in the Bastille , had England such a misery , as a fit place to bring us to our- " A " She was selves , from a daring so outrageous against imperial wishes D 2 MADAME D'ARBLAY . 35.
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... wishes . " This passage deserves notice , as being the only one in the Diary , so far as we have observed , which shows Miss Burney to have been aware that she was the native of a free country , that she could not be pressed for a ...
... wishes . " This passage deserves notice , as being the only one in the Diary , so far as we have observed , which shows Miss Burney to have been aware that she was the native of a free country , that she could not be pressed for a ...
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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.