Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 2 |
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... Miss Talbot , Mr. Richardson , and Mrs. Car- ter . CATHERINE TALBOT , the only daughter of the Rev. Edward Talbot , Archdeacon of Berks , was born in the year 1720 , five months after the de- cease of her father . Mrs. Talbot , thus ...
... Miss Talbot , Mr. Richardson , and Mrs. Car- ter . CATHERINE TALBOT , the only daughter of the Rev. Edward Talbot , Archdeacon of Berks , was born in the year 1720 , five months after the de- cease of her father . Mrs. Talbot , thus ...
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... Miss Talbot resided un- der his hospitable roof . To Miss Talbot nature had been more than commonly liberal ; for she early exhibited strong marks of a feeling heart , a warm imagination , and a powerful understanding . To these natural ...
... Miss Talbot resided un- der his hospitable roof . To Miss Talbot nature had been more than commonly liberal ; for she early exhibited strong marks of a feeling heart , a warm imagination , and a powerful understanding . To these natural ...
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... Miss Elizabeth Carter . With this lady , who possessed a mind of singular rectitude and strength , she maintained , to the close of her life , an uninter- rupted correspondence , and was the chief mean of inducing her to undertake the ...
... Miss Elizabeth Carter . With this lady , who possessed a mind of singular rectitude and strength , she maintained , to the close of her life , an uninter- rupted correspondence , and was the chief mean of inducing her to undertake the ...
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... Miss Carter , and such friends as fall to the lot of few ! Let me thankfully say how very rich am I ! But the lon- ger we live , the more are our hearts attached to that first set of friends amongst whom one's life began , and whose ...
... Miss Carter , and such friends as fall to the lot of few ! Let me thankfully say how very rich am I ! But the lon- ger we live , the more are our hearts attached to that first set of friends amongst whom one's life began , and whose ...
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... Miss Carter received a second epistle from her friend . " Once before , " she remarks , " your company was a great relief to me in a melancholy time . I had then just lost the dearest and best of friends , the excellent sister of this ...
... Miss Carter received a second epistle from her friend . " Once before , " she remarks , " your company was a great relief to me in a melancholy time . I had then just lost the dearest and best of friends , the excellent sister of this ...
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Page 222 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, * and only took snuff.
Page 53 - Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage., naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain.
Page 462 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 419 - Wales : together with their provisional allowance during confinement ; as reported to the society for the discharge and relief of small debtors, in April, May, June, &c., 18oo. 4to., 18oo. An account of the rise, progress and present state of the society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England and Wales.
Page 42 - I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an offence was either taken or given, at the very time that the heart of the chider or repulser was open before me, overflowing with esteem and affection, and the fair repulser, dreading to be taken at her word, directing this word, or that expression, to be softened or changed. One, highly gratified with her lover's fervour and vows of everlasting love, has said, when I have asked her direction, ' I cannot tell you what to write ; but (her heart...
Page 110 - Haste, Fancy, from the scenes of folly, To meet the matron Melancholy, Goddess of the tearful eye, That loves to fold her arms, and sigh Let us with silent footsteps go To charnels, and the house of woe ; To gothic churches, vaults, and tombs, Where each sad night some virgin comes, With throbbing breast, and faded cheek, Her promised bridegroom's urn to seek...
Page 272 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 273 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story) and that, on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 470 - TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption, lay thine hand ! — let me decay, Like the expiring lamp, unseen, away. And softly go to slumber with the dead.
Page 231 - With sleek appearance, and with ambling pace, And type of vacant head with vacant face, The Proteus Hill put in his modest plea— " Let Favour speak for others, Worth for me...