The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, المجلد 2John Williams, 1826 |
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الصفحة 504
... friends who introduced her , she was treated by the noble lord just mentioned with uncommon attention , made an inmate at Burlington House , watched over by the Countess with maternal care , and presented with a fortune of 60007. 504 ...
... friends who introduced her , she was treated by the noble lord just mentioned with uncommon attention , made an inmate at Burlington House , watched over by the Countess with maternal care , and presented with a fortune of 60007. 504 ...
الصفحة 509
... friend , ( said he ) and I will show you an English blood , who , after having dined at a tavern , and swallowed three or four bottles of Port , mounts his horse on a summer evening to go to his box in the country . ' Proceeding ...
... friend , ( said he ) and I will show you an English blood , who , after having dined at a tavern , and swallowed three or four bottles of Port , mounts his horse on a summer evening to go to his box in the country . ' Proceeding ...
الصفحة 510
... friend made no answers to his questions . After wiping the dust from his face , he asked again , with the emotion and anxiety of friendship , whether he was hurt . Garrick , whose eyes were closed , half opened one of them , hiccuped ...
... friend made no answers to his questions . After wiping the dust from his face , he asked again , with the emotion and anxiety of friendship , whether he was hurt . Garrick , whose eyes were closed , half opened one of them , hiccuped ...
الصفحة 512
... friendship of the latter was the only advantage which this effort produced , or de- served to produce . It is an outline neither judiciously planned , nor neatly sketched ; the verses are separately smooth , and the thoughts plain , but ...
... friendship of the latter was the only advantage which this effort produced , or de- served to produce . It is an outline neither judiciously planned , nor neatly sketched ; the verses are separately smooth , and the thoughts plain , but ...
الصفحة 513
... friends from among the dependants of the Stuarts , there appeared at first no prospect of success for his ambition under the new or- der of things . Poets , however , have immemorially been accustomed to apply the license of their noble ...
... friends from among the dependants of the Stuarts , there appeared at first no prospect of success for his ambition under the new or- der of things . Poets , however , have immemorially been accustomed to apply the license of their noble ...
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الصفحة 624 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
الصفحة 601 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 624 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
الصفحة 834 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
الصفحة 623 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
الصفحة 668 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
الصفحة 667 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
الصفحة 545 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
الصفحة 883 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
الصفحة 511 - Unblam'd through 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...