Leigh Hunt. Lord Holland. Warren Hastings. Frederic the Great. Madame d'Arblay. The life and writings of Addison. The earl of ChathamMethuen, 1903 - English essays |
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... Voltaire that she often stole from the court to her lover's chambers in the Temple , disguised like a country girl , with a straw hat on her head , pattens on her feet , and a basket in her hand . The poet was indeed too happy and proud ...
... Voltaire that she often stole from the court to her lover's chambers in the Temple , disguised like a country girl , with a straw hat on her head , pattens on her feet , and a basket in her hand . The poet was indeed too happy and proud ...
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... Voltaire would consider him merely as a gentleman . " If you had been merely a gentleman , " said Voltaire , " I should not have come to see you . " . " 2 Congreve was not a man of warm affections . Domestic ties he had none ; and in ...
... Voltaire would consider him merely as a gentleman . " If you had been merely a gentleman , " said Voltaire , " I should not have come to see you . " . " 2 Congreve was not a man of warm affections . Domestic ties he had none ; and in ...
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... Voltaire's . Such high and various excellence moved the young Prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire on religious and philosophical questions had not yet been fully exhibited to the public . At a later period , when an ...
... Voltaire's . Such high and various excellence moved the young Prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire on religious and philosophical questions had not yet been fully exhibited to the public . At a later period , when an ...
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... Voltaire ; and Voltaire applauded , as if Frederic had been Racine and Bossuet in one . One of his Royal Highness's performances was a refutation of Machiavelli . Voltaire undertook to convey it to the press . It was entitled the Anti ...
... Voltaire ; and Voltaire applauded , as if Frederic had been Racine and Bossuet in one . One of his Royal Highness's performances was a refutation of Machiavelli . Voltaire undertook to convey it to the press . It was entitled the Anti ...
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... Voltaire was selected for the mission . He eagerly undertook the task ; for , while his literary fame filled all Europe , he was troubled with a childish craving for political distinction . He was vain , and not without reason , of his ...
... Voltaire was selected for the mission . He eagerly undertook the task ; for , while his literary fame filled all Europe , he was troubled with a childish craving for political distinction . He was vain , and not without reason , of his ...
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Page 159 - ... erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Page 162 - Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling-bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard; and Mrs.
Page 40 - Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 161 - Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, or negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the- capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.
Page 81 - His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt.
Page 344 - Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war : In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
Page 159 - There •were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the queen the fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with...
Page 158 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty...
Page 367 - Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of the common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds
Page 344 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...