Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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Pàgina 38
... greatest master in that species of writing that ever appeared in the world . No mortal had ever more wit ; but that wit was not employed in the cause of virtue ; his poignant fatire was levelled } levelled against human nature in ge ...
... greatest master in that species of writing that ever appeared in the world . No mortal had ever more wit ; but that wit was not employed in the cause of virtue ; his poignant fatire was levelled } levelled against human nature in ge ...
Pàgina 40
... greatest difadvantage ; it feems to defert the fub- ject , and no where fo evidently flaggs . Indelicacy is another great ftain in the pages of this admired author's writings . In the journey to the flying ifland , are feveral ...
... greatest difadvantage ; it feems to defert the fub- ject , and no where fo evidently flaggs . Indelicacy is another great ftain in the pages of this admired author's writings . In the journey to the flying ifland , are feveral ...
Pàgina 59
... greatest exactness seems to be demanded , he has been the leaft careful , I mean the history of antient ceremonies and rites , & c . in which you have with great judgment been exact . " Ib . P. 265 , 266 , #Page 159 be be gathered from ...
... greatest exactness seems to be demanded , he has been the leaft careful , I mean the history of antient ceremonies and rites , & c . in which you have with great judgment been exact . " Ib . P. 265 , 266 , #Page 159 be be gathered from ...
Pàgina 62
... it has on the whole too much merit to be characterised in fuch contemptible terms . His account of the greatest English poets contains . fome very beautiful lines , particularly where where he fpeaks of Cowley and Milton , the latter ( 62 )
... it has on the whole too much merit to be characterised in fuch contemptible terms . His account of the greatest English poets contains . fome very beautiful lines , particularly where where he fpeaks of Cowley and Milton , the latter ( 62 )
Pàgina 71
... greatest wits in England , feveral of whose wri- tings of different kinds had been received with the utmost applause by the public ; yet even these gentlemen , to their great furprize , found the thing would not do ; and had the good ...
... greatest wits in England , feveral of whose wri- tings of different kinds had been received with the utmost applause by the public ; yet even these gentlemen , to their great furprize , found the thing would not do ; and had the good ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 86 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Pàgina 175 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Pàgina 55 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Pàgina 56 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pàgina 167 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
Pàgina 36 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pàgina 169 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
Pàgina 36 - Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Pàgina 13 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Pàgina 34 - If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by the change he has made, from having no religion, to choose one of the worst.