Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham, Band 21854 |
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... virtue , if he has virtue , obliges him to discharge at the return of reason . He spends his time in outrages and acknowledgment , injury and reparation . Or , if there be any who hardens himself in oppression , and justifies the wrong ...
... virtue , if he has virtue , obliges him to discharge at the return of reason . He spends his time in outrages and acknowledgment , injury and reparation . Or , if there be any who hardens himself in oppression , and justifies the wrong ...
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... virtues should be recorded by their friends . For Lo modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own Ianegyrios ; and it is very Lard that they should go with ut reputation , only because they the more ...
... virtues should be recorded by their friends . For Lo modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own Ianegyrios ; and it is very Lard that they should go with ut reputation , only because they the more ...
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... virtues of private men . In a word , he had been fitter for my place ; and , while his brother was writing upon the greatest men that any age ever produced , in a style equal to them , he might have served as a panegyrist on him . This ...
... virtues of private men . In a word , he had been fitter for my place ; and , while his brother was writing upon the greatest men that any age ever produced , in a style equal to them , he might have served as a panegyrist on him . This ...
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... virtues or crimes , of mankind ; one is pleased with con- templating a beau , the other a hero : even from the same object they would draw different ideas ; Achilles would appear in very different lights to Thersites and Alexander ...
... virtues or crimes , of mankind ; one is pleased with con- templating a beau , the other a hero : even from the same object they would draw different ideas ; Achilles would appear in very different lights to Thersites and Alexander ...
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... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity ...
... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared Beggar's Opera Blackmore Cato censure character Cibber College Congreve copy Court criticism death dedication died Dryden Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke Earl Earl of Dorset edition elegant endeavoured Essay excellence favour Fenton friends genius Halifax honour Iliad imagined imitation Jacob Tonson Johnson Journal to Stella Lady letter lived London Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Love Marlborough mentioned Miscellany Montague mother nature never observed occasion Oxford Parnell performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise Preface present Prince printed Prior published Queen reason received remarkable Richard Blackmore Richard Savage satire Savage's says seems Sempronius Smith Spence by Singer Steele supposed Swift Syphax Tatler Theophilus Cibber thought Tickell tion told Tonson tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue Westminster Westminster Abbey Whig write written wrote
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Seite 147 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always temembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.
Seite 246 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Seite 385 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
Seite 77 - ... a true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king...
Seite 353 - Spanish, but with little better success than before; for though it was received and acted, yet it appeared so late in the year that the author obtained no other advantage from it than the acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Wilks, by whom he was pitied, caressed, and relieved. Sir Richard Steele, having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character, promoted his interest with the utmost zeal, related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all...
Seite 162 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Seite 245 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification: yet if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride: ALMERIA It was a fancied noise ; for all is hush'd.
Seite 158 - Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.
Seite 139 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
Seite 133 - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...