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... died in 1726 . His poems were collected by Gray , but not printed until after that writer's death . West possessed a tender elegiac vein of no great depth , but was a sound scholar . He , Gray , Walpole , and Ashton formed a ' quadruple ...
... died in 1726 . His poems were collected by Gray , but not printed until after that writer's death . West possessed a tender elegiac vein of no great depth , but was a sound scholar . He , Gray , Walpole , and Ashton formed a ' quadruple ...
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... ( died 1794 ) , Walpole's cousin ; he was afterwards created Earl of Hertford . A gentle and admirable person , afterwards sent , as being “ a man of the first character and quality , " as our Ambassador to Paris .- [ Ed . ] have not been ...
... ( died 1794 ) , Walpole's cousin ; he was afterwards created Earl of Hertford . A gentle and admirable person , afterwards sent , as being “ a man of the first character and quality , " as our Ambassador to Paris .- [ Ed . ] have not been ...
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... Holder- nesse , Conway and his brother ; all stayed supper , 1 1 Robert d'Arcy , fourth Earl of Holdernesse ( died 1778 ) . Mason , in 1754 , became his chaplain . and till two o'clock in the morning , for here 20 LETTERS .
... Holder- nesse , Conway and his brother ; all stayed supper , 1 1 Robert d'Arcy , fourth Earl of Holdernesse ( died 1778 ) . Mason , in 1754 , became his chaplain . and till two o'clock in the morning , for here 20 LETTERS .
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... died Feb. 6 , 1740 .— [ Ed . ] 2 Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni ( 1667-1740 ) had died on the 28th of February . He was a very wealthy patron of art and letters . - [ Ed . ] 3 Three of the Altieri family were Cardinals at this time . The one ...
... died Feb. 6 , 1740 .— [ Ed . ] 2 Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni ( 1667-1740 ) had died on the 28th of February . He was a very wealthy patron of art and letters . - [ Ed . ] 3 Three of the Altieri family were Cardinals at this time . The one ...
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... died distracted : and we left another ( Altieri ) at the extremity : yet nobody dreams of an election till the latter end of September . All this gives great scandal to all good catholics , and every- body talks very freely on the ...
... died distracted : and we left another ( Altieri ) at the extremity : yet nobody dreams of an election till the latter end of September . All this gives great scandal to all good catholics , and every- body talks very freely on the ...
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acquaintance Adieu admire Amst Antistrophe appear beautiful believe best compliments Brown called Cambridge Caractacus church College Comédie Française Conyers Middleton DEAR DOCTOR-I DEAR MASON-I dear Sir desire Dodsley Duke edition Elidurus eyes famous Florence fortnight give glad gout Gray's head hear heard hither honour hope HORACE WALPOLE imagine JAMES BROWN journey King Lady letter lines live London Lord master mention miles mountains Naples never night obliged opinion pass Pembroke Pembroke College perhaps Peterhouse Pindar pleasure Poems Pray printed published RICHARD WEST Rome seen shew sincerely Sir John Mordaunt soon sorry sort spirit stanza Stoke Stonhewer suppose sure Syphax Tacitus talk tell thing THOMAS WHARTON thought told town Tuthill verse Walpole's week WILLIAM MASON wish wonder word write wrote
Popular passages
Page 3 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 107 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 269 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud...
Page 267 - Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare; Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast: Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havock urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
Page 344 - The office itself has always humbled the professor hitherto (even in an age when kings were somebody), if he were a poor writer by making him more conspicuous, and if he were a good one by setting him at war with the little fry of his own profession, for there are poets little enough to envy even a poet-laureat.
Page 268 - What strings symphonious tremble in the air. What strains of vocal transport round her play ? Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear : They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Page 266 - Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye afford A tear to grace his obsequies ! Is the sable warrior fled ? — Thy son is gone ; he rests among the dead.
Page 267 - Edward, lo ! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof, the thread is spun !) Half of thy heart we consecrate ; (The web is wove, the work is done...
Page 105 - The incidents are ill laid and without invention ; but the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and the story of Wilson ; and throughout he shews himself well read in Stage-Coaches, Country Squires, Inns, and Inns of Court.
Page 400 - BLAKE.— LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. With Selections from his Poems and other Writings. Illustrated from Blake's own Works. By ALEXANDER GILCHRIST. A new and Enlarged Edition, with additional Letters, and a Memoir of the Author.