The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, المجلد 2John Williams, 1826 |
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الصفحة 499
... soon after , the death of his uncle put him in possession of a thousand pounds . He abandoned the des- tined profession of law , engaged in the wine trade with a brother in Durham Yard , failed , and then threw himself on the stage ...
... soon after , the death of his uncle put him in possession of a thousand pounds . He abandoned the des- tined profession of law , engaged in the wine trade with a brother in Durham Yard , failed , and then threw himself on the stage ...
الصفحة 502
... soon exalted the theatre to a flourishing state . Of the means by which this end was attained , his own dramatic compositions formed no mean por- tion : of them , therefore , it may be proper to treat here . His first essay was the ...
... soon exalted the theatre to a flourishing state . Of the means by which this end was attained , his own dramatic compositions formed no mean por- tion : of them , therefore , it may be proper to treat here . His first essay was the ...
الصفحة 510
... soon after its appearance , Fitzgerald roused up a party who compelled the managers of Drury - lane to abandon a privilege which they had retained up to this period - of refusing any admissions at half- price upon the night of a new ...
... soon after its appearance , Fitzgerald roused up a party who compelled the managers of Drury - lane to abandon a privilege which they had retained up to this period - of refusing any admissions at half- price upon the night of a new ...
الصفحة 513
... soon blasted : Queen Anne died , the House of Hanover succeeded to the throne ; and , as Gay had chosen his friends from among the dependants of the Stuarts , there appeared at first no prospect of success for his ambition under the new ...
... soon blasted : Queen Anne died , the House of Hanover succeeded to the throne ; and , as Gay had chosen his friends from among the dependants of the Stuarts , there appeared at first no prospect of success for his ambition under the new ...
الصفحة 524
... soon obliged , in consequence of his inability to keep the engagement , to leave Edinburgh precipitately . But the tailor pursued him in his retreat with the long arm of the law ; he was arrested in Sunderland , and conducted back to ...
... soon obliged , in consequence of his inability to keep the engagement , to leave Edinburgh precipitately . But the tailor pursued him in his retreat with the long arm of the law ; he was arrested in Sunderland , and conducted back to ...
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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...