The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews ; The Second Funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 - Počet stran: 418 |
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... pompous dul- ness , the mean aims , the base successes - all these were present to him ; it was with the din of these curses of the world , blasphemies against Heaven , - shrieking in his ears , that he began to SWIFT . 35.
... pompous dul- ness , the mean aims , the base successes - all these were present to him ; it was with the din of these curses of the world , blasphemies against Heaven , - shrieking in his ears , that he began to SWIFT . 35.
Strana 36
... began to write his dread- ful allegory of which the meaning is that man is utterly wicked , desperate , and imbecile , and his pas- sions are so monstrous , and his boasted powers so mean , that he is and deserves to be the slave of ...
... began to write his dread- ful allegory of which the meaning is that man is utterly wicked , desperate , and imbecile , and his pas- sions are so monstrous , and his boasted powers so mean , that he is and deserves to be the slave of ...
Strana 37
... began to grieve at remembering the loss of a child lately dead . A bishop sitting by comforted him — that he should be easy , because the child was gone to heaven . ' ' No , my lord , ' said she ; that is it which most grieves him ...
... began to grieve at remembering the loss of a child lately dead . A bishop sitting by comforted him — that he should be easy , because the child was gone to heaven . ' ' No , my lord , ' said she ; that is it which most grieves him ...
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... began at school or college in the regular way , producing panegyrics upon public characters , what were called odes upon public events , battles , sieges , court marriages and deaths , in which the gods of Olympus and the tragic muse ...
... began at school or college in the regular way , producing panegyrics upon public characters , what were called odes upon public events , battles , sieges , court marriages and deaths , in which the gods of Olympus and the tragic muse ...
Strana 55
... began to be the public favorite . She died in 1748 , in the eighty - fifth year of her age . 3 Johnson calls his legacy the " accumulation of attentive parsi- mony , which , " he continues , " though to her ( the Duchess ) super- fluous ...
... began to be the public favorite . She died in 1748 , in the eighty - fifth year of her age . 3 Johnson calls his legacy the " accumulation of attentive parsi- mony , which , " he continues , " though to her ( the Duchess ) super- fluous ...
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Strana 123 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents...
Strana 255 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Strana 124 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Strana 76 - So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 20 Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Strana 30 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Strana 229 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300 ; a considerable proportion of which remained with my clerk...
Strana 61 - See ! see, she wakes — Sabina wakes ! And now the sun begins to rise ? Less glorious is the morn, that breaks • From his bright beams, than her fair eyes. With light united, day they give ; But different fates ere night fulfil : How many by his warmth will live ! How many will her coldness kill...
Strana 267 - Sweet AUBURN ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here, as I take my solitary rounds...
Strana 85 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Strana 23 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.