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... hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to Westminster school under the VOL . X. A care of Dr. Busby ; whence ...
... hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to Westminster school under the VOL . X. A care of Dr. Busby ; whence ...
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... authors blush . There are many of his first essays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique , still handed about the university in manuscript , which shew a mas terly hand ; and , though maimed and injured by A 2 SMITH.
... authors blush . There are many of his first essays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique , still handed about the university in manuscript , which shew a mas terly hand ; and , though maimed and injured by A 2 SMITH.
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Samuel Johnson. terly hand ; and , though maimed and injured by fre- quent transcribing , make their way into our most cele- brated miscellanies , where they shine with uncommon lustre . Besides those verses in the Oxford books which he ...
Samuel Johnson. terly hand ; and , though maimed and injured by fre- quent transcribing , make their way into our most cele- brated miscellanies , where they shine with uncommon lustre . Besides those verses in the Oxford books which he ...
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... hand , and the trans- eriber was often obliged to take the liberties of a friend . * Dr. Ralph Bathurst , whose life and literary remains were published in 1761 , by Mr. Thomas Warton . C. His condolence for the death of Mr. Philips is ...
... hand , and the trans- eriber was often obliged to take the liberties of a friend . * Dr. Ralph Bathurst , whose life and literary remains were published in 1761 , by Mr. Thomas Warton . C. His condolence for the death of Mr. Philips is ...
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... hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . His greatest and noblest undertaking was ...
... hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . His greatest and noblest undertaking was ...
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Página 130 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 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, HUGHES.
Página 27 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles : he grew first regular, and then...
Página 176 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable: whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Página 105 - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Página 27 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find.
Página 180 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness 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.
Página 129 - outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination.
Página 127 - That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured.
Página 83 - The irregularities in sir Roger's conduct seem not so much the effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life, by the perpetual pressure of some overwhelming idea, as of habitual rusticity, and that negligence which solitary grandeur naturally generates. The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his...
Página 103 - It is said that when Addison had suffered any vexation from the countess, he withdrew the company from Button's house. From the coffee-house he went again to a tavern, where he often sat late, and drank too much wine.