Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological tracts. Miscellaneous tracts. Dedications. Opinions on questions of law. Reviews and criticisms. Journey to the western islands of Scotland. Prayers and meditationsGeorge Dearborn, 1834 |
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... afterwards Earl of St. Alban's , and was employ - did not much employ his thoughts upon phan- ed in such correspondence as the royal cause required , and particularly in cyphering and de- cyphering the letters that passed between the ...
... afterwards Earl of St. Alban's , and was employ - did not much employ his thoughts upon phan- ed in such correspondence as the royal cause required , and particularly in cyphering and de- cyphering the letters that passed between the ...
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... afterwards to have changed tragedy . the greater ode , and the gayety of the less ; that he was equally qualified for sprightly sallies , and for lofty flights ; that he was among those who freed translation from servility , and ...
... afterwards to have changed tragedy . the greater ode , and the gayety of the less ; that he was equally qualified for sprightly sallies , and for lofty flights ; that he was among those who freed translation from servility , and ...
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... afterwards employed in carrying on the King's correspondence ; and , as he says , discharged this office with great safety to the royalists and , being accidentally discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cow- ley's hand , he ...
... afterwards employed in carrying on the King's correspondence ; and , as he says , discharged this office with great safety to the royalists and , being accidentally discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cow- ley's hand , he ...
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... afterwards the wife of the Earl of Carbury , who at his seat called Golden - pany of a hermit , a companion from whom little grove , in Caermarthenshire , harboured Dr. Jeremy could be expected ; yet to him Milton owed his Taylor in the ...
... afterwards the wife of the Earl of Carbury , who at his seat called Golden - pany of a hermit , a companion from whom little grove , in Caermarthenshire , harboured Dr. Jeremy could be expected ; yet to him Milton owed his Taylor in the ...
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... afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . because writers may be afterwards censured , than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can ...
... afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . because writers may be afterwards censured , than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can ...
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Addison afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered court Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diligence discovered Drake Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured enemies English excellence father favour fortune French friends genius honour hope Hudibras Iliad imagination kind King King of Prussia known labour Lady language Latin learning lence letter lines lived Lord ment Milton mind nature never Night Thoughts nihil Nombre de Dios numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost perhaps Pindar pinnaces pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Port Egmont pounds praise Prince published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme Savage says seems sent ship sion sometimes soon Spaniards supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young
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Stran 148 - His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Stran 161 - And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Stran 172 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Stran 233 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Stran 275 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian...
Stran 241 - His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
Stran 7 - ... discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Stran 103 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Stran 134 - Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility; to show when to speak, or to be silent; how to refuse, or how to comply.
Stran 221 - That's very strange! But if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had? a couple of lobsters; ay, that would have done very well; two shillings — tarts a shilling: but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket." — " No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.