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 3
... entering the army in the way he did , and against the wish of his friends . † His father , who was a counsellor - at - law , had been private secretary to James , first Duke of Ormond , when Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland , and died when ...
... entering the army in the way he did , and against the wish of his friends . † His father , who was a counsellor - at - law , had been private secretary to James , first Duke of Ormond , when Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland , and died when ...
Pagina 5
... been authenticated by the kindness of the Rev. J. Griffiths , M.A. , keeper of the University archives at Oxford . course an irksome task , beyond the moderate application necessary 1689. ] 5 Entered at Merton College , Oxford .
... been authenticated by the kindness of the Rev. J. Griffiths , M.A. , keeper of the University archives at Oxford . course an irksome task , beyond the moderate application necessary 1689. ] 5 Entered at Merton College , Oxford .
Pagina 8
... entered himself , as it has been smoothly phrased by some writers , as a " gentleman volunteer " in the Horse Guards ; and we are not aware whether there was any difference in such a distinction from what we would term in plain English ...
... entered himself , as it has been smoothly phrased by some writers , as a " gentleman volunteer " in the Horse Guards ; and we are not aware whether there was any difference in such a distinction from what we would term in plain English ...
Pagina 10
... entered , are not marching regiments , we believe , but stationary , which takes away the point of the " vagabond " application . With regard to the invidious part of the comparison , it may be conceded to the writer that Addison ...
... entered , are not marching regiments , we believe , but stationary , which takes away the point of the " vagabond " application . With regard to the invidious part of the comparison , it may be conceded to the writer that Addison ...
Pagina 27
... entering on this subject , however , it may be de- sirable to glance cursorily at the then state of the drama , and the immediate predecessors of Steele in its cultivation . At the period when he commenced his career as a drama- tic ...
... entering on this subject , however , it may be de- sirable to glance cursorily at the then state of the drama , and the immediate predecessors of Steele in its cultivation . At the period when he commenced his career as a drama- tic ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
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 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.