The Unique: Or Biography of Many Distinguished Characters: with Fine PortraitsGeorge Smeeton Charles H. Peabody, 1830 - 254 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 17
Pagina 18
... occasion into personal contact with their author , he continued at the summit of his pro- fession till his death . He acquired a handsome fortune , and was not only generally esteemed by men of rank and talents for his powers of ...
... occasion into personal contact with their author , he continued at the summit of his pro- fession till his death . He acquired a handsome fortune , and was not only generally esteemed by men of rank and talents for his powers of ...
Pagina 25
... — and ele- gies without number written on the occasion . The best talents of the nation were employ- ed , both in prose and verse , in writing and · speaking , to express the national grief , and GEORGE WASHINGTON . 25.
... — and ele- gies without number written on the occasion . The best talents of the nation were employ- ed , both in prose and verse , in writing and · speaking , to express the national grief , and GEORGE WASHINGTON . 25.
Pagina 31
... occasion to observe it luxuriating in an ample reward . Hon . George Canning , the thread of whose memoir we mean to unwind , was a descendant of a family of great respectability in Ireland . His father , the late George Canning , Esq ...
... occasion to observe it luxuriating in an ample reward . Hon . George Canning , the thread of whose memoir we mean to unwind , was a descendant of a family of great respectability in Ireland . His father , the late George Canning , Esq ...
Pagina 74
... not well understood , was overtaken on the road by a veteran officer , an old acquaintance , whose route lay in the same direction with that of his Grace . The Duke having occasion to stop , and as the 74 DUKE OF WELLINGTON .
... not well understood , was overtaken on the road by a veteran officer , an old acquaintance , whose route lay in the same direction with that of his Grace . The Duke having occasion to stop , and as the 74 DUKE OF WELLINGTON .
Pagina 75
... occasion to stop , and as the officer would reach a certain town several hours before him , he requested that the veter- an would take the trouble of ordering dinner for him , at the principal inn . The old officer made his bow of ...
... occasion to stop , and as the officer would reach a certain town several hours before him , he requested that the veter- an would take the trouble of ordering dinner for him , at the principal inn . The old officer made his bow of ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Unique: Or Biography of Many Distinguished Characters: with Fine Portraits George Smeeton Volledige weergave - 1830 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Adams admiration afterwards America Anne Anne Boleyn appeared appointed April army Assembly beauty became body Boleyn Bonaparte born brother Burns Captain Cook celebrated character colonies command commenced congress constitution court daughter death declared distinguished Duke Earl elected a member England Europe father Fayette Fotheringay Castle France French friends gave genius George governor Henry honour Hugh Palliser Irving July June King Knight La Fayette Lieutenant London Lord Byron Madame de Stael Mademoiselle Mars Majesty manner Marquis marriage married Mary ment military mind nation native noble old woman Order Paris person poet possessed president Prince Prince of Wales Prince of Waterloo Princess Princess of Wales Prussia Queen received resigned retired returned Royal Highness scenes Scotland seat sent Sept Shakspeare soon talents Talma theatre tion took treaty United Virginia Washington Wellington Wolsey York
Populaire passages
Pagina 78 - Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toiled after him in vain.
Pagina 20 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Pagina 80 - But love is only one of many passions ; and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, «nd exhibited only what he saw before him.
Pagina 81 - This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language ; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Pagina 79 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Pagina 57 - In short, she altogether, unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below ! How she caught the contagion I cannot tell.
Pagina 80 - Shakespeare has no heroes, his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion : Even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with liie.
Pagina 80 - Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf...
Pagina 253 - ... she would accuse none, nor say any thing of the ground upon which she was judged. She prayed heartily for the king...
Pagina 79 - It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence...