Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 6Hurd & Houghton, 1860 |
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... received innumerable proofs . Those Whigs who stood by the new dynasty so manfully with purse and sword did so on principles independent of , and indeed almost incompatible with , the sentiment of devoted loyalty . The moderate To- ries ...
... received innumerable proofs . Those Whigs who stood by the new dynasty so manfully with purse and sword did so on principles independent of , and indeed almost incompatible with , the sentiment of devoted loyalty . The moderate To- ries ...
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... received from nature a strong will , a firmness of temper to which a harsher name might perhaps be given , and an understanding not , indeed , acute or enlarged , but such as qualified him to be a good man of business . But his ...
... received from nature a strong will , a firmness of temper to which a harsher name might perhaps be given , and an understanding not , indeed , acute or enlarged , but such as qualified him to be a good man of business . But his ...
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... received a remarkable lesson . He was scarcely no- ticed . All eyes were fixed on the fallen minister ; all acclamations directed to him . The streets , the balco- nies , the chimney tops , burst into a roar of delight as his chariot ...
... received a remarkable lesson . He was scarcely no- ticed . All eyes were fixed on the fallen minister ; all acclamations directed to him . The streets , the balco- nies , the chimney tops , burst into a roar of delight as his chariot ...
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... received at St. James's with comparative coldness . The an- swers to the addresses of Oxford were all gracious- ness and warmth . The watchwords of the new government were pre- rogative and purity . The sovereign was no longer to be a ...
... received at St. James's with comparative coldness . The an- swers to the addresses of Oxford were all gracious- ness and warmth . The watchwords of the new government were pre- rogative and purity . The sovereign was no longer to be a ...
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... . Fox had stumbled in the mire , and had not only been defeated , but befouled . Pitt had reached the goal , and received the prize . The emolu- ments of the Pay Office might induce the defeated statesman THE EARL OF CHATHAM . 45.
... . Fox had stumbled in the mire , and had not only been defeated , but befouled . Pitt had reached the goal , and received the prize . The emolu- ments of the Pay Office might induce the defeated statesman THE EARL OF CHATHAM . 45.
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الصفحة 156 - But, though his mind was very scantily stored with materials, he used what materials he had in such a way as to produce a wonderful effect. There have been many greater writers; but perhaps no writer was ever more uniformly agreeable. His style was always pure and easy, and, on proper occasions, pointed and energetic. His narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness.
الصفحة 302 - Neptunia caede rubescunt. 695 regina in mediis patrio vocat agmina sistro necdum etiam geminos a tergo respicit anguis. omnigenumque deum monstra et latrator Anubis contra Neptunum et Venerem contraque Minervam tela tenent.
الصفحة 161 - It is made up of incongruous parts. The village in its happy days is a true English village. The village in its decay is an Irish village. The felicity and the misery which Goldsmith has brought close together belong to two different countries, and to two different stages in the progress of society. He had assuredly never seen in his native island such a rural paradise, such a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity, as his
الصفحة 182 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
الصفحة 197 - Since the last Easter I have reformed no evil habit, my time has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream that has left nothing behind. My memory grows confused, and I know not how the days pass over me.
الصفحة 178 - Parliament, a lord of the treasury, an ambassador, a secretary of state. It would be easy, on the other hand, to name several writers of the nineteenth century of whom the least successful has received forty thousand pounds from the booksellers. But Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of the dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Literature had ceased to flourish under the patronage of the great, and had not begun to nourish under the patronage of the public.
الصفحة 212 - Lives of the Poets " are, on the whole, the best of Johnson's works. The narratives are as entertaining as any novel. The remarks on life and on human nature are eminently shrewd and profound. The criticisms are often excellent, and, even when grossly and provokingly unjust, well deserve to be studied, for, however erroneous they may be, they are never silly. They are the judgments of a mind trammeled by prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute.
الصفحة 156 - English writers ; to Reynolds, the first of English painters ; and to Burke, who had not yet entered Parliament, but had distinguished himself greatly by his writings and by the eloquence of his conversation. With these eminent men Goldsmith became intimate. In 1763 he was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of The Club.
الصفحة 178 - He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him.
الصفحة 163 - Goldsmith was on terms of intimacy with all the four. He aspired to share in their colloquial renown; but never was ambition more unfortunate. It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity , vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an .empty, noisy, blundering, rattle. But on this point the evidence is overwhelming. So extraordinary was the contrast between Goldsmith's published works and the silly things which he said, that Horace Walpole...