Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of His TimeJ. R. Smith, 1858 - Počet stran: 396 |
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... gardening , though he could here try his hand only in miniature , and entertained himself with forming his little plot of ground into what he called a Lizard Garden . Toward the close of the year 1730 he received an invitation to ...
... gardening , though he could here try his hand only in miniature , and entertained himself with forming his little plot of ground into what he called a Lizard Garden . Toward the close of the year 1730 he received an invitation to ...
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... garden of France . We came here with the design of staying only a month ; but if we find it as agreeable as it promises to be , we may stay much longer . In the spring we are to pass through Rochelle , Bourdeaux , Montpellier , Mar ...
... garden of France . We came here with the design of staying only a month ; but if we find it as agreeable as it promises to be , we may stay much longer . In the spring we are to pass through Rochelle , Bourdeaux , Montpellier , Mar ...
Strana xx
... garden that will be a little fop , strutting and pretending to be bigger than he is , where , at least , we shall be private and at our ease ; unseen ourselves when we have a mind to it , though from the little green plat at one end of ...
... garden that will be a little fop , strutting and pretending to be bigger than he is , where , at least , we shall be private and at our ease ; unseen ourselves when we have a mind to it , though from the little green plat at one end of ...
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... gardening was then taking a direction quite opposite to the old and formal methods of the French , Dutch , and Italians . Walpole , who had paid much attention to its progress , has proved that Kent was the first artist who diffused the ...
... gardening was then taking a direction quite opposite to the old and formal methods of the French , Dutch , and Italians . Walpole , who had paid much attention to its progress , has proved that Kent was the first artist who diffused the ...
Strana xxvi
... gardening . It is most probable that his health was improved and his life prolonged by this happy alternation of activity in his favourite pursuit , and repose in his literary trifling . He seems to have intended the publication of an ...
... gardening . It is most probable that his health was improved and his life prolonged by this happy alternation of activity in his favourite pursuit , and repose in his literary trifling . He seems to have intended the publication of an ...
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Strana 191 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true...
Strana 192 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Strana 40 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Strana 41 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Strana 229 - To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, he made up as an honest man ; but he was of the class you think him.
Strana 281 - you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world." — "I don't know how great men you may be," said the Guinea man, "but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Strana 102 - All you need do (says he) is to leave them just as they are; call on Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observations on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event.
Strana 178 - In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the...
Strana 111 - I assured him that I did not at all take it ill of Mr. Tickell that he was going to publish his translation; that he certainly had as much right to translate any author as myself; and that publishing both was entering on a fair stage.