The British Poets, Volume 1Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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Page xxxi
... player , While more than half becomes the actor's share , Relentless death untwists the mingled fame , And sinks the player's in the poet's name . The pliant muscles of the various face , The mien that gave each sentence strength and ...
... player , While more than half becomes the actor's share , Relentless death untwists the mingled fame , And sinks the player's in the poet's name . The pliant muscles of the various face , The mien that gave each sentence strength and ...
Page xxxii
... player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators . " That arch plagiarist , Sterne , has ...
... player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators . " That arch plagiarist , Sterne , has ...
Page xliii
... play to the public ironically the advantages that would accrue to the cause of virtue and morality in such an event . The scope afforded by the sub- ject constitutes this perhaps the severest satire ever written . The fire and spirit ...
... play to the public ironically the advantages that would accrue to the cause of virtue and morality in such an event . The scope afforded by the sub- ject constitutes this perhaps the severest satire ever written . The fire and spirit ...
Page xliv
... at a visit , and played at cards with scraps of history or sen- tences of Pindar . " - Earl of Orford's Memoires . same predicament , is stigmatised with unjustifiable severity ; this xliv LIFE OF CHARLES CHURCHILL .
... at a visit , and played at cards with scraps of history or sen- tences of Pindar . " - Earl of Orford's Memoires . same predicament , is stigmatised with unjustifiable severity ; this xliv LIFE OF CHARLES CHURCHILL .
Page lix
... play tricks in the riding school , and might prance and cur- vet like his betters , but at some unlucky time would be sure to betray the baseness of his original . It is an affair of very little consequence , perhaps , to the well ...
... play tricks in the riding school , and might prance and cur- vet like his betters , but at some unlucky time would be sure to betray the baseness of his original . It is an affair of very little consequence , perhaps , to the well ...
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Page 90 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Page 89 - As an actor, confessed without rival to shine : As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Page 90 - But peace to his spirit, wherever it flies, To act as an angel and mix with the skies : Those poets, who owe their best fame to his skill, Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will ; Old Shakspeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.
Page 168 - MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Page 67 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart.
Page lx - 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 67 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page lxii - Did we not hear so much said of Jack Wilkes, we should think more highly of his conversation. Jack has a great variety of talk, Jack is a scholar, and Jack has the manners of a gentleman. But after hearing his name sounded from pole to pole, as the phoenix of convivial felicity, we are disappointed in his company. He has always been at me: but I would do Jack a kindness, rather than not. The contest is now over.
Page 113 - 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.
Page 129 - Consider, Sir: celebrated men, such as you have mentioned, have had their applause at a distance; but Garrick had it dashed in his face, sounded in his ears, and went home every night with the plaudits of a thousand in his cranium. Then, Sir, Garrick did not find, but made his way to the tables, the levees, and almost the bed-chambers of the great. Then, Sir, Garrick had...