The Papers of a Critic: Memoir. Pope's writings. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Swift, &cJ. Murray, 1875 |
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... never begin at the root , but constantly dip the little green head in the salt ; that in the game of whist , if I have an ace I constantly play it first ; so how can I with any face begin without a dissertation on letter - writing ? Yet ...
... never begin at the root , but constantly dip the little green head in the salt ; that in the game of whist , if I have an ace I constantly play it first ; so how can I with any face begin without a dissertation on letter - writing ? Yet ...
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... never gave in to it , or else I think this line a feast for one of your lovers . " Your sincere friend , 66 JOHN KEATS . " Keats , indeed , had never " given in to it " at that time ; but very soon after this date he 66 gave in to a ...
... never gave in to it , or else I think this line a feast for one of your lovers . " Your sincere friend , 66 JOHN KEATS . " Keats , indeed , had never " given in to it " at that time ; but very soon after this date he 66 gave in to a ...
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... never allows the boy to see him in a bad one . " The following is from Mr. Dilke to his father on the latter's 80th birthday : - " MY DEAR FATHER , " We had all determined to send you our congratu- lations , and my wife begged for one ...
... never allows the boy to see him in a bad one . " The following is from Mr. Dilke to his father on the latter's 80th birthday : - " MY DEAR FATHER , " We had all determined to send you our congratu- lations , and my wife begged for one ...
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... never put his name to anything ; never kept a copy or a note of titles , and never even told his son , or in later times , his grandson . In 1821 he wrote a political pamphlet -which was published by Rodwell and Martin - under the title ...
... never put his name to anything ; never kept a copy or a note of titles , and never even told his son , or in later times , his grandson . In 1821 he wrote a political pamphlet -which was published by Rodwell and Martin - under the title ...
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... never was a poor creature in rags a greater Radical than Byron . My qualms were satisfied much in the same reasonable way as they were excited , and my satisfaction will appear to you just as unreasonable . I was angry at him , not for ...
... never was a poor creature in rags a greater Radical than Byron . My qualms were satisfied much in the same reasonable way as they were excited , and my satisfaction will appear to you just as unreasonable . I was angry at him , not for ...
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acquaintance Addison addressed advertisement Alexander Pope amongst appears Athenæum Atossa authority believe biographers Bolingbroke bookseller Bowles Buckinghamshire Carruthers Caryll character of Atossa CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE Chorley circumstances copy correspondence criticism Cromwell Curll dated daughter Dean DEAR death Dennis died Dilke Dilke's doubt Dublin Duchess of Marlborough Dunciad edition of Pope's editor Epistles epitaph evidence fact favour friendship George Darley honour inferred John John Keats Johnson June Junius Keats known Lady Mary Lady Morgan Lintot literary lived London Lord Orrery Mapledurham Martha Blount Miscellanies Narrative never Notes and Queries opinion original Orrery papers person poem poet Pope's father Pope's letters printed probably proof publication published letters quarrel Quarto Rackett reader reference Roscoe says Scriblerians Steele story strange Swift tells thought title-page told Towthorpe truth Twickenham Verses volume Wagstaffe Warburton word writes written wrote Wycherley Letters
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Seite 244 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Seite 8 - If I should die," said I to myself, " I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
Seite 125 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 139 - ... and lasting companion in the languor of age, in the quiet of privacy, when he departs, weary and disgusted, from the ostentatious, the volatile, and the vain. Of such a character, which the dull overlook and the gay despise, it was fit that the value should be made known, and the dignity established.
Seite 5 - I wish I could say Tom was any better. His identity presses upon me so all day that I am obliged to go out — and although I intended to have given some time to study alone, I am obliged to write and plunge into abstract images to ease myself of his countenance, his voice, and feebleness — so that I live now in a continual fever. It must be poisonous to life, although I feel well. Imagine " the hateful siege of contraries...
Seite 173 - A collection of the names of the merchants living in and about the city of London ; very usefull and necessary.
Seite 376 - These devils of Grub Street rogues, that write the Flying Post and Medley in one paper, will not be quiet. They are always mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me. We have the dog under prosecution, but Bolingbroke is not active enough ; but I hope to swinge him. He is a Scotch rogue, one Ridpath. They get out upon bail, and write on. We take them again, and get fresh bail; so it goes round.
Seite 102 - ... only by shining on. I am so far from es"teeming it any misfortune, that I congratulate you upon having your share in that which all the great men and all the good men that ever lived have had their part of — envy and calumny. To be uncensured and to be obscure is the same thing. You may conclude from what I here say, that it was never in my thoughts to have offered you my pen in any direct reply to such a critic, but only in some little raillery ; not in defence of you, but in contempt of him.
Seite 205 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Seite 5 - ... to study alone, I am obliged to write and plunge into abstract images to ease myself of his countenance, his voice, and feebleness — so that I live now in a continual fever. It must be poisonous to life, although I feel well. Imagine " the hateful siege of contraries " — if I think of fame, of poetry, it seems a crime to me, and yet I must do so or suffer.