Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham, Volum 21854 |
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Pàgina vii
... Favours Lord Oxford's Administration -- His three Wives - Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character --- MATTHEW PRIOR . - 1664-1721 . - 191 Born at Wimborne in Dorsetshire - Educated at Westminster and Cambridge ...
... Favours Lord Oxford's Administration -- His three Wives - Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character --- MATTHEW PRIOR . - 1664-1721 . - 191 Born at Wimborne in Dorsetshire - Educated at Westminster and Cambridge ...
Pàgina 42
... favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity , which as it was active and busy , so it was vigor- ous and manly ...
... favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity , which as it was active and busy , so it was vigor- ous and manly ...
Pàgina 47
... favours she flung in his way when offered to him at the price of a more durable reputation . He took care to have no ... favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their happiness , may possibly have to the age ...
... favours she flung in his way when offered to him at the price of a more durable reputation . He took care to have no ... favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their happiness , may possibly have to the age ...
Pàgina 75
... favour . Thus far he suffered interest or obedience to carry him , but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical commission were to be exercised against those who had refused the Declaration , he ...
... favour . Thus far he suffered interest or obedience to carry him , but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical commission were to be exercised against those who had refused the Declaration , he ...
Pàgina 83
... favour of a law to grant the assistance of counsel in trials for high treason ; and , in the midst of his speech , falling into some confusion , was for a while silent ; but , recovering himself , observed , " how reasonable it was to ...
... favour of a law to grant the assistance of counsel in trials for high treason ; and , in the midst of his speech , falling into some confusion , was for a while silent ; but , recovering himself , observed , " how reasonable it was to ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 147 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always temembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.
Pàgina 246 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Pàgina 385 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
Pàgina 77 - ... a true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king...
Pàgina 353 - Spanish, but with little better success than before; for though it was received and acted, yet it appeared so late in the year that the author obtained no other advantage from it than the acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Wilks, by whom he was pitied, caressed, and relieved. Sir Richard Steele, having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character, promoted his interest with the utmost zeal, related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all...
Pàgina 162 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Pàgina 245 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification: yet if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride: ALMERIA It was a fancied noise ; for all is hush'd.
Pàgina 158 - Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.
Pàgina 139 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
Pàgina 133 - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...