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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... hand , we find it difficult to believe that , in a world so full of temptation as this , any gentleman whose life would have been virtuous if he had not read Aristophanes and Juvenal will be made vicious by reading them . A man who ...
... hand , we find it difficult to believe that , in a world so full of temptation as this , any gentleman whose life would have been virtuous if he had not read Aristophanes and Juvenal will be made vicious by reading them . A man who ...
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... hand . The Restoration crushed for a time the Puritan party , and placed supreme power in the hands of a libertine . The political counter - revolution assisted the 1 See vol . i . , p . 233 . * Spring Garden , adjoining St. James's ...
... hand . The Restoration crushed for a time the Puritan party , and placed supreme power in the hands of a libertine . The political counter - revolution assisted the 1 See vol . i . , p . 233 . * Spring Garden , adjoining St. James's ...
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... hand- some young fellow about the court , known by the name of Jack Churchill , was , about the same time , so lucky as to become the object of a short - lived fancy of the Duchess . She had presented him with four thousand five hundred ...
... hand- some young fellow about the court , known by the name of Jack Churchill , was , about the same time , so lucky as to become the object of a short - lived fancy of the Duchess . She had presented him with four thousand five hundred ...
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... hand , it would be in the regular course of things , that , when a courtier and an equerry , he should offer his services . Secondly , his verses appear to have been written after a drawn battle , like those of 1673 , and not after a ...
... hand , it would be in the regular course of things , that , when a courtier and an equerry , he should offer his services . Secondly , his verses appear to have been written after a drawn battle , like those of 1673 , and not after a ...
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... hand , though blinded by self - love to the imperfections of what he called his poetry , could not but see that there was an immense difference between his young companion's rhymes and his own . He was divided between two feelings . He ...
... hand , though blinded by self - love to the imperfections of what he called his poetry , could not but see that there was an immense difference between his young companion's rhymes and his own . He was divided between two feelings . He ...
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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...