The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, المجلد 2John Williams, 1826 |
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الصفحة 529
... soon secured in a fixed place of high rank on the English stage . The popularity of its early attractions may be judged from the fact , that his profits from the third representation and copy - right amounted to no less a sum than 5007 ...
... soon secured in a fixed place of high rank on the English stage . The popularity of its early attractions may be judged from the fact , that his profits from the third representation and copy - right amounted to no less a sum than 5007 ...
الصفحة 539
... soon dissatisfied with the measure of their acqui- sitions , and a party was formed to urge the independence of the legislature , to a still greater height . According to them , the simple repeal of the act which gave Great Britain the ...
... soon dissatisfied with the measure of their acqui- sitions , and a party was formed to urge the independence of the legislature , to a still greater height . According to them , the simple repeal of the act which gave Great Britain the ...
الصفحة 542
... soon lost all favour with his constituents : for beginning his labours in the great work of Catholic Emancipation , he now proposed to admit the members of that religion to the elective franchise ; and an outcry , the most infamous and ...
... soon lost all favour with his constituents : for beginning his labours in the great work of Catholic Emancipation , he now proposed to admit the members of that religion to the elective franchise ; and an outcry , the most infamous and ...
الصفحة 547
... soon became intimates , and this friend- ship procured us the first good edition of our author's works , and the most interesting account of his mind and studies that we possess . Mason admired Gray , with an earnestness such as one man ...
... soon became intimates , and this friend- ship procured us the first good edition of our author's works , and the most interesting account of his mind and studies that we possess . Mason admired Gray , with an earnestness such as one man ...
الصفحة 548
... soon neglected in the obscurity , and forgotten in the oblivion , which they aspired to celebrate . 6 Gray was now on the heights of celebrity . Taking up his resi- dence for three years near the British Museum , he employed himself in ...
... soon neglected in the obscurity , and forgotten in the oblivion , which they aspired to celebrate . 6 Gray was now on the heights of celebrity . Taking up his resi- dence for three years near the British Museum , he employed himself 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...