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Pàgina 2
... pleased that he detained him two years in his house . Here he became known to king William , who some- times visited Temple when he was disabled by the gout , and being attended by Swift in the garden , showed him how to cut asparagus ...
... pleased that he detained him two years in his house . Here he became known to king William , who some- times visited Temple when he was disabled by the gout , and being attended by Swift in the garden , showed him how to cut asparagus ...
Pàgina 34
... pleased himself with hav- ing seen him . Dryden died May 1 , 1701 , some days before Pope was twelve ; so early must he therefore have felt the power of harmony and the zeal of genius . Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the ...
... pleased himself with hav- ing seen him . Dryden died May 1 , 1701 , some days before Pope was twelve ; so early must he therefore have felt the power of harmony and the zeal of genius . Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the ...
Pàgina 35
... pleased with himself easily imagines that he shall please others . Sir William Trumbull , who had been ambassa- dor at Constantinople , and secretary of state , when he retired from business , fixed his residence in the neighbourhood of ...
... pleased with himself easily imagines that he shall please others . Sir William Trumbull , who had been ambassa- dor at Constantinople , and secretary of state , when he retired from business , fixed his residence in the neighbourhood of ...
Pàgina 56
... pleased with them , and cried out , Ay , now they are perfectly right ; nothing can be better . " " It is seldom that the great or the wise suspect that they are despised or cheated . Halifax , thinking this a lucky opportunity of ...
... pleased with them , and cried out , Ay , now they are perfectly right ; nothing can be better . " " It is seldom that the great or the wise suspect that they are despised or cheated . Halifax , thinking this a lucky opportunity of ...
Pàgina 57
... to have abated . Jer- vas the painter once pleased himself ( Aug. 20 , 1714 ) with ima- gining that he had re - established their friendship ; and wrote to VOL . VI . - I Pope , that Addison once suspected him of too close POPE . 57.
... to have abated . Jer- vas the painter once pleased himself ( Aug. 20 , 1714 ) with ima- gining that he had re - established their friendship ; and wrote to VOL . VI . - I Pope , that Addison once suspected him of too close POPE . 57.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 80 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pàgina 127 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted...
Pàgina 123 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Pàgina 117 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Pàgina 160 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it. These clouds which he perceived gathering on his intellects, he endeavoured to disperse by travel, and passed into France : but found himself constrained to yield to his malady, and returned.
Pàgina 165 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Pàgina 50 - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
Pàgina 226 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Pàgina 221 - ... men are very prone to believe what they do not understand; fourthly, they will believe any thing at all, provided they are under no obligation to believe it...
Pàgina 66 - This gave Mr. Pope the thought that he had now some opportunity of doing good, by detecting and dragging into light these common enemies of mankind; since, to invalidate this universal slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible men were the authors of it.