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... praise but what can be given to intellectual ex- cellence , seldom employed to any virtuous purpose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to shew " what fine ...
... praise but what can be given to intellectual ex- cellence , seldom employed to any virtuous purpose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to shew " what fine ...
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... praise is often in- distinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little , however , that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEALE , known by the name of Smith ...
... praise is often in- distinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little , however , that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEALE , known by the name of Smith ...
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... praise must have been written by Smith when he had been but two years in the university . This ode , which closed the second volume of the Musa Anglicana , though perhaps some objections may be made to its Latinity , is by far the best ...
... praise must have been written by Smith when he had been but two years in the university . This ode , which closed the second volume of the Musa Anglicana , though perhaps some objections may be made to its Latinity , is by far the best ...
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... praises which he dropped in conversation were considered , like those of Scaliger , as worthy of preservation . He had great readiness and exactness of criticism , and by a cursory glance over a new composition would exactly tell all ...
... praises which he dropped in conversation were considered , like those of Scaliger , as worthy of preservation . He had great readiness and exactness of criticism , and by a cursory glance over a new composition would exactly tell all ...
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... praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation with Gilbert Walmsley , late registrar of the ecclesiastical court of Lichfield , who was acquainted both with Smith and ...
... praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation with Gilbert Walmsley , late registrar of the ecclesiastical court of Lichfield , who was acquainted both with Smith and ...
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Page 279 - ... distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind is a misery.
Page 197 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness 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 26 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then...
Page 26 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Page 179 - He had infused into it much knowledge, and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity ; he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity.
Page 402 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 106 - He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die — 1672-1719 DEATH AND CHARACTER 347 in which he alludes, as he told Dr.
Page 197 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
Page 363 - On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of The Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
Page 110 - Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.