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... tragedy , and the success of it was as great as the most sanguine ex- pectations of his friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging ...
... tragedy , and the success of it was as great as the most sanguine ex- pectations of his friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging ...
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... tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged ; lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names ...
... tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged ; lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names ...
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... mentioned the neglect of Smith's tragedy as disgraceful to the nation , and imputes it to the fondness for operas then pre- vailing . The authority of Addison is great ; yet the the voice of the people , when to please the 20 SMIT H.
... mentioned the neglect of Smith's tragedy as disgraceful to the nation , and imputes it to the fondness for operas then pre- vailing . The authority of Addison is great ; yet the the voice of the people , when to please the 20 SMIT H.
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... tragedy of Phædra ; but was convinced that the action was too mytho- logical . In 1709 , a year after the exhibition of Phædra , died John Philips , the friend and fellow - collegian of Smith , who , on that occasion , wrote a poem ...
... tragedy of Phædra ; but was convinced that the action was too mytho- logical . In 1709 , a year after the exhibition of Phædra , died John Philips , the friend and fellow - collegian of Smith , who , on that occasion , wrote a poem ...
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... tragedy ; of which Rowe , when they were put into his hands , could make , as he says , very little use , but which the collector considered as a valuable stock of materials . When he came to London , his way of life con- nected him ...
... tragedy ; of which Rowe , when they were put into his hands , could make , as he says , very little use , but which the collector considered as a valuable stock of materials . When he came to London , his way of life con- nected him ...
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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.