Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Richard Steele: Soldier, Dramatist, Essayist, and Patriot, with His Correspondence, and Notices of His Contemporaries, the Wits and Statesmen of Queen Anne's Time, Band 1Nimmo, 1865 |
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... manner given in accordance with the stereotyped inaccuracy of previous writers . We trust no literary young Irelander may be induced to carry the national absurdity to a pitch to which we scarcely think it has yet reached , by retorting ...
... manner given in accordance with the stereotyped inaccuracy of previous writers . We trust no literary young Irelander may be induced to carry the national absurdity to a pitch to which we scarcely think it has yet reached , by retorting ...
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... manner as any lawyer could do if he held a brief on the subject , that leads him to indulge in any remark that may have such an appearance . Does it not occur to such advocates , that if in his comedy of the " Lying Lover , " 10 [ CHAP ...
... manner as any lawyer could do if he held a brief on the subject , that leads him to indulge in any remark that may have such an appearance . Does it not occur to such advocates , that if in his comedy of the " Lying Lover , " 10 [ CHAP ...
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... manner of reason for his desertion of the noble principle of resignation to the Divine will , but his dangers and distresses ; which , indeed , is no more than if he had plainly confessed , that all the schemes we can propose to ...
... manner of reason for his desertion of the noble principle of resignation to the Divine will , but his dangers and distresses ; which , indeed , is no more than if he had plainly confessed , that all the schemes we can propose to ...
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... manner of this event has been variously stated . She is represented to have put her head out of the window of her carriage , and reviled him in passing . This led Wycherley to call the following day , and very demurely inquire 28 [ CHAP ...
... manner of this event has been variously stated . She is represented to have put her head out of the window of her carriage , and reviled him in passing . This led Wycherley to call the following day , and very demurely inquire 28 [ CHAP ...
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... departed . Nor were the two volumes thus simultaneously given to the world less dissimilar than the persons . The one , feeble , hobbling , and careless in manner , and in matter 34 [ CHAP . II . Steele and his Contemporaries .
... departed . Nor were the two volumes thus simultaneously given to the world less dissimilar than the persons . The one , feeble , hobbling , and careless in manner , and in matter 34 [ CHAP . II . Steele and his Contemporaries .
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Seite 158 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Seite 171 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Seite 171 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 332 - 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 342 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Seite 158 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
Seite 357 - tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Seite 2 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling Papa; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Seite 191 - ... tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good; riches being another word for power, towards the obtaining of which the first necessary qualification is impudence, and (as Demosthenes said of pronunciation in oratory) the second is impudence, and the third, still, impudence. No modest man ever did or ever will make his fortune.
Seite 2 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling '' Papa " ; for I know not how I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.