The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, المجلد 2John Williams, 1826 |
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الصفحة 511
... merits as an author , and his character as a man . Of manners gentle , and affections mild , In wit a man , simplicity a child ; With native humour tempting virtuous rage , Form'd to delight at once , and lash the age , Above temptation ...
... merits as an author , and his character as a man . Of manners gentle , and affections mild , In wit a man , simplicity a child ; With native humour tempting virtuous rage , Form'd to delight at once , and lash the age , Above temptation ...
الصفحة 513
... merit had first drawn to an acquaintance with his person , that in the last year of Queen Anne's reign he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Cla- rendon in an embassy to the Court of France . Great hopes were excited in his breast ...
... merit had first drawn to an acquaintance with his person , that in the last year of Queen Anne's reign he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Cla- rendon in an embassy to the Court of France . Great hopes were excited in his breast ...
الصفحة 514
... merit availed to procure a substantial remedy for his distress , yet the regard which his manners had excited from his acquaintances , induced many attentions which soothed and diverted his melan- choly . During the year 1716 the Earl ...
... merit availed to procure a substantial remedy for his distress , yet the regard which his manners had excited from his acquaintances , induced many attentions which soothed and diverted his melan- choly . During the year 1716 the Earl ...
الصفحة 527
... merit he displayed in an article upon some miserable translation of ' Ovid's Fasti , ' by a pedantic schoolmaster , attracted the eyes of Smollet , then editor of the Bri- tish Magazine , who immediately sought him out and secured his ...
... merit he displayed in an article upon some miserable translation of ' Ovid's Fasti , ' by a pedantic schoolmaster , attracted the eyes of Smollet , then editor of the Bri- tish Magazine , who immediately sought him out and secured his ...
الصفحة 530
... merit it can pretend to may be thus briefly made : -it redounded , if not to the reputa- tion , at least to the emolument of the author , and that was more than one half of his object ; while it answered the end of the publisher in ...
... merit it can pretend to may be thus briefly made : -it redounded , if not to the reputa- tion , at least to the emolument of the author , and that was more than one half of his object ; while it answered the end of the publisher in ...
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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...