The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a Life of Each, Volume 1Houghton, Osgood & Company, 1880 |
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... gave rise to the present work . In the attempt to obviate this difficulty , he was obliged to wade through some hundred volumes , mostly of a local or political nature , and conse- quently now either very scarce , or quite neglected and ...
... gave rise to the present work . In the attempt to obviate this difficulty , he was obliged to wade through some hundred volumes , mostly of a local or political nature , and conse- quently now either very scarce , or quite neglected and ...
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... gave some indi- cation of the strength and bent of his abilities . Having by a puerile misdemeanour incurred the displeasure of his masters , he was enjoined to compose and recite in the school - room a poetical declamation in Latin ...
... gave some indi- cation of the strength and bent of his abilities . Having by a puerile misdemeanour incurred the displeasure of his masters , he was enjoined to compose and recite in the school - room a poetical declamation in Latin ...
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... gave its full force , dignity , and matu rity to the scenic art . At the customary age , Churchill was ordained Deacon by Dr. Willes , Bishop of Bath and Wells , on his friend Mr. Bailey's Curacy of Cadbury , in Somersetshire , whither ...
... gave its full force , dignity , and matu rity to the scenic art . At the customary age , Churchill was ordained Deacon by Dr. Willes , Bishop of Bath and Wells , on his friend Mr. Bailey's Curacy of Cadbury , in Somersetshire , whither ...
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... gave Churchill credit for that fertility of thought , and that strength of imagina- tion , which are displayed in the Rosciad . So difficult is it to determine from a man's conver- sation , the scope and vigour of his understand- ing ...
... gave Churchill credit for that fertility of thought , and that strength of imagina- tion , which are displayed in the Rosciad . So difficult is it to determine from a man's conver- sation , the scope and vigour of his understand- ing ...
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... gave a better price for satire ; Raised all his pensioners to high repute , By scandal on the government and Bute , Copying his patrons , Churchill took a stride From Heaven's service , to the other side , But loath the fashionable rule ...
... gave a better price for satire ; Raised all his pensioners to high repute , By scandal on the government and Bute , Copying his patrons , Churchill took a stride From Heaven's service , to the other side , But loath the fashionable rule ...
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Page 163 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Page 271 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 147 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Page 158 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 271 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 32 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 199 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page lxiv - Nay, sir, I am a very fair judge. He did not attack me violently till he found I did not like his poetry ; and his attack on me shall not prevent me from continuing to say what I think of him, from an apprehension that it may be ascribed to resentment. No, sir, I called the fellow a blockhead at first, and I will call him a blockhead still.
Page 45 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Page 131 - The exhibitions of the stage were improved to the most exquisite entertainment by the talents and management of Garrick, who greatly surpassed all his predecessors of this and perhaps every other nation, in his genius for acting ; in the sweetness and variety of his tones, the irresistible magic of his eye, the fire and vivacity of his action, the elegance of attitude, and the whole pathos of expression.