Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Band 2C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 |
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... afterwards , when it was found much bruised and defaced . On his bureau this unhappy man had left the following sentence , written on a slip of paper , and intended as a vindication of the rash action which he was about to commit : What ...
... afterwards , when it was found much bruised and defaced . On his bureau this unhappy man had left the following sentence , written on a slip of paper , and intended as a vindication of the rash action which he was about to commit : What ...
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... calculated to secure them no small portion of general favour . His Ode on Music , therefore , his Six Cantatas , written shortly afterwards , and set by Pepusch ; and his Opera 28 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES .
... calculated to secure them no small portion of general favour . His Ode on Music , therefore , his Six Cantatas , written shortly afterwards , and set by Pepusch ; and his Opera 28 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES .
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Nathan Drake. afterwards , and set by Pepusch ; and his Opera of Calypso and Telemachus , represented on the King's Theatre in 1712 , enjoyed , for some time , an undisputed reputation . The only piece , however , which can with any ...
Nathan Drake. afterwards , and set by Pepusch ; and his Opera of Calypso and Telemachus , represented on the King's Theatre in 1712 , enjoyed , for some time , an undisputed reputation . The only piece , however , which can with any ...
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... afterwards obliged the public with versions of Fontenelle's Discourse concerning the Ancients and Moderns , and of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise . The diction of Hughes in all these attempts is , in general , neat , pure , and ...
... afterwards obliged the public with versions of Fontenelle's Discourse concerning the Ancients and Moderns , and of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise . The diction of Hughes in all these attempts is , in general , neat , pure , and ...
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... afterwards pre- sented him with the place of secretary to the commissions of the peace ; a situation of great profit , and which , when Cowper resigned the seals , was continued to him by Lord Maccles- field , at the earnest request of ...
... afterwards pre- sented him with the place of secretary to the commissions of the peace ; a situation of great profit , and which , when Cowper resigned the seals , was continued to him by Lord Maccles- field , at the earnest request of ...
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Seite 67 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 66 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Seite 88 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Seite 381 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Seite 88 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Seite 104 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 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!
Seite 297 - That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
Seite 227 - O'er which were shadowy cast elysian gleams, That played, in waving lights, from place to place ; And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
Seite 342 - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
Seite 381 - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.