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... supposed they would suppress any thing that was his , but out of respect to his memory , and for want of proper hands to finish what so great a genius had begun . SUCH * SUCH is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while SMIT H. 15.
... supposed they would suppress any thing that was his , but out of respect to his memory , and for want of proper hands to finish what so great a genius had begun . SUCH * SUCH is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while SMIT H. 15.
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... supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked ; for , finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux , it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France , who immediately denied the charge , with ...
... supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked ; for , finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux , it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France , who immediately denied the charge , with ...
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... supposed that he had great merit , who could obtain to the same play a prologue from Addi- son , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of ...
... supposed that he had great merit , who could obtain to the same play a prologue from Addi- son , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of ...
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... supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of The Examiner . His eyes were open to all the operations of Whiggism ; and he bestowed some strictures upon Dr. Kennett's adulatory sermon at the funeral of the duke of Devonshire ...
... supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of The Examiner . His eyes were open to all the operations of Whiggism ; and he bestowed some strictures upon Dr. Kennett's adulatory sermon at the funeral of the duke of Devonshire ...
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... supposed that his poems were rather the amusements of idle- ness than efforts of study ; that he endeavoured ra- ther to divert than astonish ; that his thoughts sel- dom aspired to sublimity ; and that , if his verse was easy and his ...
... supposed that his poems were rather the amusements of idle- ness than efforts of study ; that he endeavoured ra- ther to divert than astonish ; that his thoughts sel- dom aspired to sublimity ; and that , if his verse was easy and his ...
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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.