The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey |
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الصفحة 499
This journey , which took place early in the year 1736 , has been ordinarily
represented as a mere speculative adventure upon the part of the one and the
other ; but whatever may have been the case with Johnson , Garrick seems to
have ...
This journey , which took place early in the year 1736 , has been ordinarily
represented as a mere speculative adventure upon the part of the one and the
other ; but whatever may have been the case with Johnson , Garrick seems to
have ...
الصفحة 620
... her but with regard ; and both in her epitaph and his various writings has given
many instances of sincere affection . Her name was Porter , and she was the
widow of a mercer . With this capital , Johnson reverted to what seems to have
been ...
... her but with regard ; and both in her epitaph and his various writings has given
many instances of sincere affection . Her name was Porter , and she was the
widow of a mercer . With this capital , Johnson reverted to what seems to have
been ...
الصفحة 623
The morbid sense of Johnson's feelings in religious matters is well known ; that
divine belief which soothes most hearts with hope , only tore his bosom with fears
; he seems to have dreaded far more than he confided ; and dwelt deeper on the
...
The morbid sense of Johnson's feelings in religious matters is well known ; that
divine belief which soothes most hearts with hope , only tore his bosom with fears
; he seems to have dreaded far more than he confided ; and dwelt deeper on the
...
الصفحة 797
Of Prior's private life but little is known , and of his poems but little need be said ,
for the era of their popularity seems to have passed away . His habits are said to
have been irregular , his relaxations immoral , and his tastes so very gross , that ...
Of Prior's private life but little is known , and of his poems but little need be said ,
for the era of their popularity seems to have passed away . His habits are said to
have been irregular , his relaxations immoral , and his tastes so very gross , that ...
الصفحة 799
Both his father and a paternal uncle were musicians , and Gentlemen of the
Chapel Royal , in which he , too , received his musical education under
Humphrey , a master to whom alone he seems to have been indebted for
instructions in his art ...
Both his father and a paternal uncle were musicians , and Gentlemen of the
Chapel Royal , in which he , too , received his musical education under
Humphrey , a master to whom alone he seems to have been indebted for
instructions in his art ...
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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...