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... Letters , · 752 Edition of Shakespeare , 746 General , • 753 1698-1770 • 1696-1782 1739-1777 1725 ? -1779 1735-1779 • 1667-1735 1684-1768 1686-1761 LELAND , JOHN , 1691-1766 LILLO , GEORGE , LOWTH , WILLIAM , LYTTELTON , GEORGE LORD ...
... Letters , · 752 Edition of Shakespeare , 746 General , • 753 1698-1770 • 1696-1782 1739-1777 1725 ? -1779 1735-1779 • 1667-1735 1684-1768 1686-1761 LELAND , JOHN , 1691-1766 LILLO , GEORGE , LOWTH , WILLIAM , LYTTELTON , GEORGE LORD ...
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... Letters , 178 • Essay on Criticism , 158 Eloisa to Abelard , 168 • General , 181 The Messiah , 159 Edition of Shakespeare , • 170 Rape of the Lock , 160 PRINCE , THOMAS , 1681-1758 RAMSAY , ALLAN , 1686-1758 Personal , 403 Fables and ...
... Letters , 178 • Essay on Criticism , 158 Eloisa to Abelard , 168 • General , 181 The Messiah , 159 Edition of Shakespeare , • 170 Rape of the Lock , 160 PRINCE , THOMAS , 1681-1758 RAMSAY , ALLAN , 1686-1758 Personal , 403 Fables and ...
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... Letters . - ADAMS , W. H. DAVEN- PORT , 1886 , Good Queen Anne , vol . II , p . 230 . His connection with Mist forced him to pass himself off as one of the Jacobites , " a generation who , I profess , " as he says in his letter in the ...
... Letters . - ADAMS , W. H. DAVEN- PORT , 1886 , Good Queen Anne , vol . II , p . 230 . His connection with Mist forced him to pass himself off as one of the Jacobites , " a generation who , I profess , " as he says in his letter in the ...
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... Letters of the Time of George III . , p . 273 . But " The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe " appeared as far back as the year 1719 , and at once rose to the popularity which it has ever since maintained . it failed to attract the ...
... Letters of the Time of George III . , p . 273 . But " The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe " appeared as far back as the year 1719 , and at once rose to the popularity which it has ever since maintained . it failed to attract the ...
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... Letters on Milton and Congreve , " and " Letters upon Several Occasions , Writ- ten by and between Mr. Wycherley , Mr. Dryden , Mr. Moyle , Mr. Congreve , and Mr. Dennis ; " also adverse " Remarks " on Blackmore's " Prince Arthur . " In ...
... Letters on Milton and Congreve , " and " Letters upon Several Occasions , Writ- ten by and between Mr. Wycherley , Mr. Dryden , Mr. Moyle , Mr. Congreve , and Mr. Dennis ; " also adverse " Remarks " on Blackmore's " Prince Arthur . " In ...
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Seite 595 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : ' This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords...
Seite 8 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Seite 127 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Seite 541 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all...
Seite 594 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Seite 5 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 53 - Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms—
Seite 164 - if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ? ' 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 verse, for which ' he must have them all subscribe; for,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Seite 552 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Seite 322 - After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it,—