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... Lives of the Poets , " it has become almost proverbial to repeat , that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , fa- miliar but not coarse , and elegant but not osten- tatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of ...
... Lives of the Poets , " it has become almost proverbial to repeat , that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , fa- miliar but not coarse , and elegant but not osten- tatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of ...
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... with his hopes of life , he dismissed not his con- cern for the living , but sent for a youth nearly related " ( the Earl of Warwick , who did not live long after this affecting interview ) , " and BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxxix.
... with his hopes of life , he dismissed not his con- cern for the living , but sent for a youth nearly related " ( the Earl of Warwick , who did not live long after this affecting interview ) , " and BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxxix.
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. live long after this affecting interview ) , " and finely accomplished , yet not above being the bet- ter for good impressions from a dying friend . He came ; but life now glimmering in the socket ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. live long after this affecting interview ) , " and finely accomplished , yet not above being the bet- ter for good impressions from a dying friend . He came ; but life now glimmering in the socket ...
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... Lives of the Gresham Professors + . He was an exellent scholar and an able lawyer , but his infirm state of health would not permit him to attend the courts . He had a principal concern in a paper called " The British Mer- chant , or ...
... Lives of the Gresham Professors + . He was an exellent scholar and an able lawyer , but his infirm state of health would not permit him to attend the courts . He had a principal concern in a paper called " The British Mer- chant , or ...
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... one of those * Johnson's Lives of the Poets , art . Brome , or Broome . See an article on the same subject by Addison , in Tatler , No. 93 . illustrious characters who have ennobled their families by merit in e 2 BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . lix.
... one of those * Johnson's Lives of the Poets , art . Brome , or Broome . See an article on the same subject by Addison , in Tatler , No. 93 . illustrious characters who have ennobled their families by merit in e 2 BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . lix.
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Página xciv - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página xxix - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Página 159 - Worship th' immortal gods. I AM always very well pleased with a country Sundav, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits,...
Página lxxxvii - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 238 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Página xcv - His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Página 161 - This authority of the Knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life, has a very good effect upon the parish, who are not polite enough to see any thing ridiculous in his behaviour.
Página xcii - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy, and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.
Página 160 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Página 160 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces