Thackeray's Lectures: The English Humorists. The Four GeorgesHarper & Brothers, 1867 - 449 strani |
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... playing at one - and - thirty with him and his family the other night . He gave us all twelvepence apiece to begin with : it put me in mind of Sir William Tem ple . " - Ibid . " I thought I saw Jack Temple [ nephew to Sir William ...
... playing at one - and - thirty with him and his family the other night . He gave us all twelvepence apiece to begin with : it put me in mind of Sir William Tem ple . " - Ibid . " I thought I saw Jack Temple [ nephew to Sir William ...
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... play , the " Old Bachelor , " brought our author to the notice of that great patron of the English muses , Charles Montague Lord Halifax , who being desirous to place so eminent a wit in a state of ease and tranquillity , instantly made ...
... play , the " Old Bachelor , " brought our author to the notice of that great patron of the English muses , Charles Montague Lord Halifax , who being desirous to place so eminent a wit in a state of ease and tranquillity , instantly made ...
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... plays , the favourite of all the town of her day- and the Duchess of Marlborough , Marlborough's daughter , had such an admiration of him , that when he died she had an ivory figure made to imitate him , ' and a large wax doll with ...
... plays , the favourite of all the town of her day- and the Duchess of Marlborough , Marlborough's daughter , had such an admiration of him , that when he died she had an ivory figure made to imitate him , ' and a large wax doll with ...
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... play , is , I believe , not very distant from the real character of Congreve . " - Dramatic Miscella nies , vol . iii . 1784 . She retired from the stage when Mrs. Oldfield began to be the public favourite She died in 1748 , in the ...
... play , is , I believe , not very distant from the real character of Congreve . " - Dramatic Miscella nies , vol . iii . 1784 . She retired from the stage when Mrs. Oldfield began to be the public favourite She died in 1748 , in the ...
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... plays over before speaking of him ; and my feelings were rather like those , which I dare- say most of us here have had , at Pompeii , looking at Sal- lust's house and the relics of an orgy , a dried wine - jar or two , a charred supper ...
... plays over before speaking of him ; and my feelings were rather like those , which I dare- say most of us here have had , at Pompeii , looking at Sal- lust's house and the relics of an orgy , a dried wine - jar or two , a charred supper ...
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Stran 257 - still had hopes—for pride attends us still— 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
Stran 402 - Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little!' " 'Vex not his ghost—oh! let him pass—he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer!' Hush, Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave! Sound, Trumpets, a mournful march! Fall, Dark Curtain, upon his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy!
Stran 166 - civil leer. And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame as to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend , Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged. And so obliging that he ne'er obliged
Stran 257 - from care that never must be mine— How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches bora to work and weep
Stran 84 - spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round this dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound. Among their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice. For ever singing as they shine, The
Stran 75 - Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote the Prologue, and Garth the Epilogue. It is worth noticing how many things in Cato keep their ground as habitual quotations, e. g.:— " .... big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome." " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, well
Stran 285 - and compose them ; And her eyes close them, Staring so blindly ! Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely. Cold inhumanity. Burning insanity, Into her rest. Cross her hands humbly As if praying dumbly,
Stran 257 - to pain. 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 humhle bowers to lay me down
Stran 82 - The Court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but, notwithstanding all the jus tices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them ; who for his reputation in the country took occasion to whisper in the judge's ear that he was glad his lordship had
Stran 121 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parent*