Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope and Other Eminent Persons of His Time, Svazek 1W.H. Carpenter, 1820 - Počet stran: 501 |
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... pleasure I refer the reader to a spirited vindication of Addison by Mr. Bowles , in a note to the fourth volume of his edition of Pope's Works , p . 41 . In the variety of such a miscellaneous far- rago , it might be expected that some ...
... pleasure I refer the reader to a spirited vindication of Addison by Mr. Bowles , in a note to the fourth volume of his edition of Pope's Works , p . 41 . In the variety of such a miscellaneous far- rago , it might be expected that some ...
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... pleasure in being the instru- ment of making this curious repertory acces- sible to the lover of literary anecdote . From a very early period of my life , I earnestly de- sired to see it , and should have been grateful to any one who ...
... pleasure in being the instru- ment of making this curious repertory acces- sible to the lover of literary anecdote . From a very early period of my life , I earnestly de- sired to see it , and should have been grateful to any one who ...
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... pleasure of another visit that was wholly unexpected to me . Monday last , after dinner , according to the good sauntering custom that I use here every day , I was lolling at a coffee - house half asleep , and half reading something ...
... pleasure of another visit that was wholly unexpected to me . Monday last , after dinner , according to the good sauntering custom that I use here every day , I was lolling at a coffee - house half asleep , and half reading something ...
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... pleasures both to you and me . " In another place he says- " I don't at all desire wardenships , or indeed any high dignity in the world ; and that not out of wisdom , but a love of ease . I am for happiness in my own way , and ...
... pleasures both to you and me . " In another place he says- " I don't at all desire wardenships , or indeed any high dignity in the world ; and that not out of wisdom , but a love of ease . I am for happiness in my own way , and ...
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... pleasure grounds , and to plant and adorn the face of the country round his abode . From this time to the end of his life , rural improvement became his favourite amuse- ment ; he expended a great part of the profits arising from his ...
... pleasure grounds , and to plant and adorn the face of the country round his abode . From this time to the end of his life , rural improvement became his favourite amuse- ment ; he expended a great part of the profits arising from his ...
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Strana 60 - Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said: " I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as 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 *."—R.
Strana 345 - said ;—" It has so!"— and then added, " I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind!"—"I have known him these thirty years: and value myself more for that man's love, than ." [Sinking his head, and losing his voice in tears.—Spence.}
Strana 248 - Ah friend! 'tis true—this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, 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 140 - four or five places, Lord Hallifax stopped me very civilly; and with a speech, each time much of the same kind: " I beg your pardon, Mr. Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me.—Be so good as to mark the place, and consider it a little more at your
Strana 265 - that all the members of the Scriblerus club, being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkley, who was also his guest, on his scheme at Bermudas.—Berkley having listened to all the lively things they had to say, begged to be heard in his turn; and displayed his
Strana 401 - the glasses, by each member after dinner; once when Dr. Young was invited thither, the doctor would have declined writing, because he had no diamond: Lord Stanhope lent him his, and he wrote immediately— " Accept a miracle, instead of wit; See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ"— Dr.
Strana 142 - his lordship was extremely pleased with them, and cried out, " Ay now, Mr. Pope, they are perfectly right! nothing can be better."—P. " Did not he write the Country Mouse with Mr. Pryor?"—" Yes, just as if I was in a chaise with Mr. Cheselden here, drawn by his fine horse, and should say,—Lord, how finely we draw this
Strana 404 - You must have heard many tales upon this subject: but if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth."—It was finely said of Garth, that no physician knew his art more, nor his trade less. P. 139, Parnell,
Strana 264 - will be frightened when I tell you all this is but an introduction; and I must now mention his errand. He is an absolute philosopher with regard to money, titles, and power, and for three years past, has been struck with a notion of founding an university at Bermudas, by a charter from the crown. He has seduced several of
Strana 248 - shade, The morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses for uneasy minds, To sigh unheard in, to the passing winds ? So the struck deer in some sequester'd part Lies down to die, the arrow at his heart, He