The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq; Vol. III.: Containing Letters to Particular Friends, from the Year 1739 to 1763J. Dodsley, 1769 - 360 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 48 - ... my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind is a misery.
Pàgina 39 - I am angry, and envious, and dejected, and frantic, and disregard all present things, just as becomes a madman to do. I am infinitely pleased (though it is a gloomy joy) with the application of Dr. Swift's complaint, "that he is forced to die in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Pàgina 147 - Poor Mr. Thomson, Mr. Pitt tells me, is dead. He was to have been at Hagley this week, and then I should probably have seen him here. As it is I will erect an urn in Virgil's Grove to his memory. I was really as much shocked to hear of his death, as if I had known and loved him for a number of years. God knows I lean on a very few friends, and if they drop me, I become a wretched misanthrope.
Pàgina vii - I look upon my letters as some of my chef-d'teueres ; and, could I be supposed to have the least pretensions to propriety of style or sentiment, I should imagine it must appear principally in my letters to his brother, and one or two more friends.
Pàgina 173 - Twas thus, if man with woman we compare, The wise Athenian cross'da glittering fair. Unmov'd by tongues and sights, he walk'd the place, Through tape, toys, tinsel, gimp, perfume, and lace ; Then bends from Mars's hill his awful eyes, And — ' What a world I never want ! ' he cries ; But cries unheard ; for Folly will be free.
Pàgina 73 - Garden, they come in large bodies, armed with couteaus, and attack whole parties, so that the danger of coming out of the play-houses is of some weight in the opposite scale, when I am disposed to go to them oftener than I ought.
Pàgina 61 - You cannot conceive how large the number is of those that mistake burlesque for the very foolishness it exposes ; which observation I made once at the Rehearsal, at Tom Thumb, at Chrononhotonthologos, all which are pieces of elegant humour. I have some mind to pursue this caution further, and advertise it ' The SchoolMistress,
Pàgina 5 - Aye, that you would, thought I. ' Well, but now when Mr. Jago comes, have you got e'er a chicken that's fit to kill? ' ' No, says she, I doubt there is ne'er-a-one.' ' Well, says I, Mrs. Arnold, you and your chicken may go down ; I am going to write a letter.
Pàgina 101 - If there be a real difference, probably it may find a place in the explication of my genius. I envy you a good general insight into the writings of the learned. I must aim at nothing higher than a well-concealed ignorance.
Pàgina 141 - ... kind of folicitudes towards the evening of your day ; " Ne te femper inops agitet vexetque cupido, " Ne pavor, & rerum mediocriter utilium fpes !" . , I would have you acquire, if poffible, what the world calls, ;with fome propriety, an eafy fortune ; and what I interpret, fuch a fortune as allows of fome inaccuracy and inattention, that one may not be continually in fufpenfe about the laying out a.