The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of AmericaSmith, Elder and Company, 1853 - 322 من الصفحات |
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... poets , receives the famous Irishman , and takes off his hat to him with a bow of surly recognition , scans him from head to foot , and passes over to the other side of the street . Dr. Wilde of Dublin , ' who has written a most stores ...
... poets , receives the famous Irishman , and takes off his hat to him with a bow of surly recognition , scans him from head to foot , and passes over to the other side of the street . Dr. Wilde of Dublin , ' who has written a most stores ...
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... poems , the vilest I ever saw ; but I have given their names to my man , never to let them see me . " - Journal to Stella . The following curious paragraph illustrates the life of a courtier : — " Did I ever tell you that the Lord ...
... poems , the vilest I ever saw ; but I have given their names to my man , never to let them see me . " - Journal to Stella . The following curious paragraph illustrates the life of a courtier : — " Did I ever tell you that the Lord ...
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... poem of courtly condolence , from which we have quoted a few lines of mock melancholy , he breaks out of the funereal procession with a mad shriek , as it were , and rushes away crying his own grief , cursing his own fate , foreboding ...
... poem of courtly condolence , from which we have quoted a few lines of mock melancholy , he breaks out of the funereal procession with a mad shriek , as it were , and rushes away crying his own grief , cursing his own fate , foreboding ...
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... poets of his day , had applauded him , and done him homage , and at this time writing over to Bolingbroke , from Ireland , he says , " It is time for me to have done with the world , and so I would if I could get into a better before I ...
... poets of his day , had applauded him , and done him homage , and at this time writing over to Bolingbroke , from Ireland , he says , " It is time for me to have done with the world , and so I would if I could get into a better before I ...
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... poem on the subject , and in poor Vanessa's vehement expostulatory verses and letters to him , she adores him , implores him , admires him , thinks him something god - like , and only prays to be admitted to lie at his feet . As they ...
... poem on the subject , and in poor Vanessa's vehement expostulatory verses and letters to him , she adores him , implores him , admires him , thinks him something god - like , and only prays to be admitted to lie at his feet . As they ...
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acquaintance Addison admirable asked beautiful Beggar's Opera Bolingbroke called Captain character charming Congreve court Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Drapier's Letters Duke Dunciad Earl Efmond England English eyes famous fancy father fortune genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand heart hero Hogarth honest honour humour humourist Iliad Ireland Irish Jane Eyre Johnson Joseph Addison kind lady laugh letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR moral nature never night novel passion person pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's pretty Queen Queen Anne reader satire says smile speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne story Struldbrugs Swift Tatler tell tender Thackeray thee thought told Tom Jones truth Vanity Fair verses Vicar of Wakefield volume W. M. THACKERAY whilst wife woman writing wrote young
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الصفحة 34 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
الصفحة 147 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
الصفحة 297 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
الصفحة 217 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
الصفحة 311 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband our life's taper at the close And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
الصفحة 312 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
الصفحة 216 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus
الصفحة 100 - I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, 'till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
الصفحة 149 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
الصفحة 93 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.