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, Volume 1Nimmo, 1865 |
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Pagina x
... spirit , and wounding him with a shaft drawn from his own quiver , like the unhappy eagle that per- ceived the arrow rankling in its side to have been fea- thered from its own wing . Coleridge , however , has expressed his opinion ...
... spirit , and wounding him with a shaft drawn from his own quiver , like the unhappy eagle that per- ceived the arrow rankling in its side to have been fea- thered from its own wing . Coleridge , however , has expressed his opinion ...
Pagina xix
... spirit of the other are adopted and exaggerated by infe- rior scribes , who , wanting their finely - tempered weapons and skilful hands , mangle their subjects in their critical dissection . The remarks of at least one pretentious ...
... spirit of the other are adopted and exaggerated by infe- rior scribes , who , wanting their finely - tempered weapons and skilful hands , mangle their subjects in their critical dissection . The remarks of at least one pretentious ...
Pagina xxi
... spirits , both in literary and political life , of an era which , in both points , must ever be regarded as one of the most important and interesting in British annals . CONTENTS . VOL . I. CHAPTER I. THE YOUTH , Preface . xxi.
... spirits , both in literary and political life , of an era which , in both points , must ever be regarded as one of the most important and interesting in British annals . CONTENTS . VOL . I. CHAPTER I. THE YOUTH , Preface . xxi.
Pagina 2
... spirits , and are consoled , too , for the mortifying sense of our own mediocrity , in exemption from the envy , care , and ... spirit of antiquity as from the lives of Plutarch ? -one of * This remarkable fact of the large number of ...
... spirits , and are consoled , too , for the mortifying sense of our own mediocrity , in exemption from the envy , care , and ... spirit of antiquity as from the lives of Plutarch ? -one of * This remarkable fact of the large number of ...
Pagina 4
... spirit ; and there was a dignity in her grief , amidst all the wildness of her transport , which , methought , struck me with an instinct of sorrow that , before I was sensible what it was to grieve , seized my very soul , and has made ...
... spirit ; and there was a dignity in her grief , amidst all the wildness of her transport , which , methought , struck me with an instinct of sorrow that , before I was sensible what it was to grieve , seized my very soul , and has made ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 160 - 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 316 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, ' Sister Spirit, come away ! ' What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be Death...
Pagina 237 - ... says he, that great man who has a mind to help me, has as many to break through to come at me, as I have to come at him : therefore he will conclude, that the man who would make a 'figure, especially in a military way, must get over all false modesty, and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders, by a proper assurance in his own vindication. He says it is a civil cowardice to be backward in...
Pagina 160 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
Pagina 160 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Pagina 4 - 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.
Pagina 193 - ... 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.
Pagina 173 - 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...
Pagina 160 - ... her in her last moments ; and the wife even at that time concealing; the pains she endured, for fear of increasing his affliction. She kept her eyes upon him for some moments after she grew speechless, and soon after closed them for ever. In the moment of her departure, my friend (who had thus far commanded himself) gave a deep groan, and fell into a swoon by her bedside.