Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... celebrated for the Beggars Opera , a fatire which was attended with amazing effects . He wrote it in an ill - humour , and being brought upon the ftage in the beginning of November 1727 , it was received with greater applaufe than had ...
... celebrated for the Beggars Opera , a fatire which was attended with amazing effects . He wrote it in an ill - humour , and being brought upon the ftage in the beginning of November 1727 , it was received with greater applaufe than had ...
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... ; but neither of them ever defcended to private attacks . The writings of these celebrated authors are well known ; and perhaps we fhall find the the moderns equal to them in this fpecies of compofition ( 24 ) SECT. ...
... ; but neither of them ever defcended to private attacks . The writings of these celebrated authors are well known ; and perhaps we fhall find the the moderns equal to them in this fpecies of compofition ( 24 ) SECT. ...
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... celebrated romance are nu- merous , and peculiarly marked ; the fa- tire is keen , and the whole work bears many figns of a fertile imagination . This author would have been in higher efteem , had he not wrote in too licentious a ftrain ...
... celebrated romance are nu- merous , and peculiarly marked ; the fa- tire is keen , and the whole work bears many figns of a fertile imagination . This author would have been in higher efteem , had he not wrote in too licentious a ftrain ...
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... celebrated pieces , which is called , The fatire upon man . What vice or frailty can a difcourfe correct , which cenfures the whole fpecies alike , and endeavours to fhow by fome fuper- ficial ftrokes of wit , that brutes are the most ...
... celebrated pieces , which is called , The fatire upon man . What vice or frailty can a difcourfe correct , which cenfures the whole fpecies alike , and endeavours to fhow by fome fuper- ficial ftrokes of wit , that brutes are the most ...
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... celebrated production of a fine ir- regular genius , is certainly in point of wit and fatire one of the most exqui- fite works of imagination that ever was composed ; and had Swift wrote it only to fatirize the vices and follies of ...
... celebrated production of a fine ir- regular genius , is certainly in point of wit and fatire one of the most exqui- fite works of imagination that ever was composed ; and had Swift wrote it only to fatirize the vices and follies of ...
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Seite 86 - 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 a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 175 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Seite 55 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 56 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 167 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
Seite 36 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 169 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
Seite 36 - Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Seite 13 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Seite 34 - If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by the change he has made, from having no religion, to choose one of the worst.