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Pagina 14
... nature than the circumstance of the book re- ceived by Sir Andrew Freeport . " To Sir Roger , " Continues Dr. Johnson , " who , as a country gentleman , appears to be a Tory , or , as it is gently expressed , an adherent to the landed ...
... nature than the circumstance of the book re- ceived by Sir Andrew Freeport . " To Sir Roger , " Continues Dr. Johnson , " who , as a country gentleman , appears to be a Tory , or , as it is gently expressed , an adherent to the landed ...
Pagina 17
... nature , nor raises mer- riment or wonder by the violation of truth . His fig- ures neither divert by distortion ... natural expression , may easily put together gigantic figures and rumbling syllables . It is only a Garrick who can do ...
... nature , nor raises mer- riment or wonder by the violation of truth . His fig- ures neither divert by distortion ... natural expression , may easily put together gigantic figures and rumbling syllables . It is only a Garrick who can do ...
Pagina 18
... nature . In most cases , what the one sketched , the other could fill up : what the one be- gan , the other with little difficulty could continue . We have an early example in Steele's outline of Sir Roger de Coverley , and the use ...
... nature . In most cases , what the one sketched , the other could fill up : what the one be- gan , the other with little difficulty could continue . We have an early example in Steele's outline of Sir Roger de Coverley , and the use ...
Pagina 29
... of matter . Excellence in writing , as in painting , can be attained only by labour : rules and examples may improve , but nature can only initiate . which every man loves to contemplate . " Of Addi- BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . 29.
... of matter . Excellence in writing , as in painting , can be attained only by labour : rules and examples may improve , but nature can only initiate . which every man loves to contemplate . " Of Addi- BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . 29.
Pagina 32
... nature of this unhappiness we have no informa- tion in any of the memoirs of his life , except hints that she presumed on the superiority of her rank . But to suppose that she despised or vexed Addison on that account will not supply ...
... nature of this unhappiness we have no informa- tion in any of the memoirs of his life , except hints that she presumed on the superiority of her rank . But to suppose that she despised or vexed Addison on that account will not supply ...
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acquaintance acrostics Addison admiration Æneid Æsop agreeable anagrams appear audience beauty behaviour Ben Jonson called character Chelsea club coffee-house discourse dress DRYDEN edition endeavour English entertainment eral Eustace Budgell eyes face favour final note folio genius gentleman George Etheridge give hand heart honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian kind king lady laugh letter lion live look lord lover mankind manner means mind nature never observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict play pleased pleasure poem poet prince racter reader reason Roger de Coverley ROSCOMMON seems sense signatures Sir Roger speak Spect Spectator stage Steele Steele's Tatler tell Theatre Royal thing thought tion told tragedy verses VIRG virtue whig whole woman women words writing young
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Pagina 143 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Pagina 81 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pagina 290 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Pagina 84 - I am very well versed in the theory of an husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them, as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Pagina 309 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Pagina 279 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Pagina 524 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Pagina 428 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Pagina 82 - Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Pagina 87 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger.