An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. PopeT. Cadell, 1782 - 95 strán (strany) |
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... fays all he knows upon any fubject ! " If this collection of anec- dotes and quotations has been without a number of admirers , it has not wanted readers , who have fairly confeffed , that they have received entertainment from the ...
... fays all he knows upon any fubject ! " If this collection of anec- dotes and quotations has been without a number of admirers , it has not wanted readers , who have fairly confeffed , that they have received entertainment from the ...
Strana 4
... fays of ( the ever memorable ) Hales of Eaton , was one of the least men in the kingdom ; who adds of Chillingworth , that he was of a ftature little fuperior to him ; and , that it was an age , in 4 in which there were many great and ...
... fays of ( the ever memorable ) Hales of Eaton , was one of the least men in the kingdom ; who adds of Chillingworth , that he was of a ftature little fuperior to him ; and , that it was an age , in 4 in which there were many great and ...
Strana 5
... fays ) of the ftature , as to go generally in black , that he may appear yet lefs . Nay , to that perfection is he arrived , that he floops as he walks . The figure of the man , continues he jocofely , is odd enough ; he is a lively ...
... fays ) of the ftature , as to go generally in black , that he may appear yet lefs . Nay , to that perfection is he arrived , that he floops as he walks . The figure of the man , continues he jocofely , is odd enough ; he is a lively ...
Strana 13
... fays that great man , in an affecting ftrain of eloquence , I have not a book left . " : T Pope acquired a stock of Latin and Greek very early , which a moderate application enabled him to enlarge . He had a fufficiency of knowledge ...
... fays that great man , in an affecting ftrain of eloquence , I have not a book left . " : T Pope acquired a stock of Latin and Greek very early , which a moderate application enabled him to enlarge . He had a fufficiency of knowledge ...
Strana 21
Thomas Tyers. brought to perfection . " I would make you confefs , fays he in a letter to Wicquefort , were any favourable accident to bring you hither ( and this age produces ftrange ones enough ) that the fruits of my garden have ...
Thomas Tyers. brought to perfection . " I would make you confefs , fays he in a letter to Wicquefort , were any favourable accident to bring you hither ( and this age produces ftrange ones enough ) that the fruits of my garden have ...
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Strana 18 - The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb, are managed with exquisite judgment ; and though Lord Peterborough assisted him " To form his quincunx, and to rank his vines...
Strana 65 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Strana 124 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 54 - Asiaticks, which are reposited in our publick libraries, were printed with the usual advantage of notes and illustrations, and if the languages of the Eastern nations were studied in our great seminaries of learning, where every other branch of useful knowledge is taught to perfection, a new and ample field would be opened for speculation; we should have a more extensive insight into the history of the human mind ; we should be furnished with a new set of images and similitudes; and a number of excellent...
Strana 90 - As to the future grandeur of America, and its being a rising empire under one head, whether republican or monarchical, it is one of the idlest and most visionary notions that ever was conceived even by writers of romance.
Strana 68 - England, and at present of all the world. I hope you are acquainted enough with the English tongue to be sensible of all the charms of his works. For my part I look...
Strana 98 - Tire little nightingale. His manners were ' delicate, eafy, and engaging : and he treated his friends with a politenefs that charmed, and a generofity that was much to his honour. Every gueft was made happy within his doors. Pleafure dwelt under his roof, and t Elegance Elegance prefided at his table.
Strana 42 - That man has a malignant and ungenerous heart ; and he is base enough to assume the mask of a moralist, in order to decry human nature, and to give a decent vent to his hatred of man and woman kind.
Strana 99 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
Strana 36 - I feem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a figh I wifh it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More fenfe, than I can do in fix, It gives me fuch a jealous fit, I cry, pox take him and his wit.