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 xxi
... things he has left behind him . What would we not give for a Boswell of those men and those times ! In the absence of this , it is sought in the following pages to make Steele , in his combined character as a man of letters and a ...
... things he has left behind him . What would we not give for a Boswell of those men and those times ! In the absence of this , it is sought in the following pages to make Steele , in his combined character as a man of letters and a ...
Pagina 10
... things , and who , on this very account , was so much the more admired by the egotistical , exclusive circles , " & c .— ( " History of the Eighteenth Century , " vol . i . , p . 100. ) This may serve to shew the writer of the ...
... things , and who , on this very account , was so much the more admired by the egotistical , exclusive circles , " & c .— ( " History of the Eighteenth Century , " vol . i . , p . 100. ) This may serve to shew the writer of the ...
Pagina 13
... thing peculiarly gratifying to the universal sentiment of self - love in the feeling of one who , either voluntarily or of necessity , casting aside the vantage - ground of position and birth , usually so highly esteemed , starts in the ...
... thing peculiarly gratifying to the universal sentiment of self - love in the feeling of one who , either voluntarily or of necessity , casting aside the vantage - ground of position and birth , usually so highly esteemed , starts in the ...
Pagina 16
... ensign in the Guards , being thoroughly convinced of many things of which he often repented , and as often repeated , he wrote , for his own private use , a little book called ' The Christian Hero , ' with a design principally to fix upon.
... ensign in the Guards , being thoroughly convinced of many things of which he often repented , and as often repeated , he wrote , for his own private use , a little book called ' The Christian Hero , ' with a design principally to fix upon.
Pagina 21
... thing was done like an old Roman , we have a generous and practical and efficient clerk would have presented no difficulty ... things simple difficult and obscure . It may perhaps afford some clue to the principle of the Professor's ...
... thing was done like an old Roman , we have a generous and practical and efficient clerk would have presented no difficulty ... things simple difficult and obscure . It may perhaps afford some clue to the principle of the Professor's ...
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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.