Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men. Collected from the conversation of Mr. Pope, and other eminent persons of his time ... Now first published from the original papers, with notes and a life of the author, by S. W. Singer. (Appendix. Letters to Mr. Spence.)J.R. Smith, 1858 - Počet stran: 396 |
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Strana vii
... Talk , Boswell's Life of Johnson , and the Walpoliana . It may 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 . It may 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 xv
... talks as if the ladies had played him some scurvy tricks in his youth . He introduced 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 . He ...
... talks as if the ladies had played him some scurvy tricks in his youth . He introduced 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 . He ...
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... talks of it as exceeding the highly coloured picture in his imagination . It was probably here , that the thought was first elicited which gave rise to his magnum opus , the Polymetis ; as Gibbon conceived the design of his History ...
... talks of it as exceeding the highly coloured picture in his imagination . It was probably here , that the thought was first elicited which gave rise to his magnum opus , the Polymetis ; as Gibbon conceived the design of his History ...
Strana xxi
... talk of being an old man ; but that will begin to be a very serious 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 serious 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 ...
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... 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 . Wycherley 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 . Wycherley used to say of him : " That he knew how to start a fool very ...
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Strana 102 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us ; and we now and then gave a correction or a word or two of advice, but it was wholly of his own writing.
Strana 22 - 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 xxix - 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 I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Strana 23 - 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 160 - 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.
Strana 381 - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any Language truly translated, with a Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. RICHARD HOOPER. 2 vols.
Strana 211 - 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 226 - In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
Strana 84 - 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 261 - 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.