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 |
Vyhledávání v knize
Výsledky 1-5 z 40
Strana vii
... Talk , Boswell's Life of Johnson , and the Walpoliana . Mr. Spence seems to have been doubtful what title he should give to this collection ; and those of Popiana , Spenceana , Symposia , and Table Talk , appear to have been ...
... Talk , Boswell's Life of Johnson , and the Walpoliana . Mr. Spence seems to have been doubtful what title he should give to this collection ; and those of Popiana , Spenceana , Symposia , and Table Talk , appear to have been ...
Strana xx
... talks as if the ladies had played him some scurvy tricks in his youth . - He in- troduced us to a ball , where he presided , and you cannot conceive how busy the good old gentleman was among the ladies from the eldest to the youngest ...
... talks as if the ladies had played him some scurvy tricks in his youth . - He in- troduced us to a ball , where he presided , and you cannot conceive how busy the good old gentleman was among the ladies from the eldest to the youngest ...
Strana xxvii
... talk of being an old man ; but that will begin to be a very se- rious truth in a few years more . Whenever it happens , I don't expect it as a very disagreeable thing ; a good easy chair , good company , and the being able to look back ...
... talk of being an old man ; but that will begin to be a very se- rious truth in a few years more . Whenever it happens , I don't expect it as a very disagreeable thing ; a good easy chair , good company , and the being able to look back ...
Strana 13
... talk of the drunken Dean.-P. The Virtuoso of Shadwell does not maintain his character with equal strength to the end : and this was that writer's general fault . Wych- erley used to say of him : " That he knew how to start a fool very ...
... talk of the drunken Dean.-P. The Virtuoso of Shadwell does not maintain his character with equal strength to the end : and this was that writer's general fault . Wych- erley used to say of him : " That he knew how to start a fool very ...
Strana 20
... talk with you , than drink with you . " But if you had supped with me , as in all reason you ought to have done , you must have drank with me . - A bottle of wine ; two shillings . - Two and two , is four ; and one is five : just two ...
... talk with you , than drink with you . " But if you had supped with me , as in all reason you ought to have done , you must have drank with me . - A bottle of wine ; two shillings . - Two and two , is four ; and one is five : just two ...
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví
acquainted Addison Æneid afterwards anecdotes antient appear Archbishop of Cambray Ariosto Ben Jonson Birchanger Bishop Blount Byfleet called character copy cou'd deal DEAR death desired Dryden Duchess of Marlborough Duke Dunciad Epistle Essay Essay on Criticism excellent father Florence French garden gave give Greek hand heard Iliad imitation Italy Julius Cæsar kind king Lady language Latin learned letter lived look Lord Bolingbroke Lord Peterborough Lowth manner mentioned never obliged Oxford papers particular piece pleasure poem poetry poets Pope Pope's pretty printed probably published racter Rome satire says seems sent Sir Godfrey soon sort speak Spence Spence's STEPHEN DUCK Swift talk taste tell thing thought thousand tion told took translation Turin Twickenham verses Virgil Warburton Warton whole word wou'd write written wrote Wycherley young
Oblíbené pasáže
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