The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1854 - English poetry |
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... once pos- sessed . It is needless to remark that , at the period of their first publication , his works required no comments , he , in imitation of Dryden , so accu- rately depicted the objects of his indignation , as to render any key ...
... once pos- sessed . It is needless to remark that , at the period of their first publication , his works required no comments , he , in imitation of Dryden , so accu- rately depicted the objects of his indignation , as to render any key ...
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... once its distinguished favourite . The interval of nearly half a century , which has elapsed since the former edition , has had the effect of converting what then wore the semblance of contemporary anecdote , to the more sober com ...
... once its distinguished favourite . The interval of nearly half a century , which has elapsed since the former edition , has had the effect of converting what then wore the semblance of contemporary anecdote , to the more sober com ...
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... once popular writer . What of attraction they still retain , would be greatly enhanced by the anecdotes and amusive information scattered throughout the commentary . A greater service cannot be rendered to an author's reputation than to ...
... once popular writer . What of attraction they still retain , would be greatly enhanced by the anecdotes and amusive information scattered throughout the commentary . A greater service cannot be rendered to an author's reputation than to ...
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... once so celebrated , who , during the latter period of his life , attracted , more than any of his contemporaries , the attention of the public . The variety of letters , essays , papers , poems , and para- graphs relating to him with ...
... once so celebrated , who , during the latter period of his life , attracted , more than any of his contemporaries , the attention of the public . The variety of letters , essays , papers , poems , and para- graphs relating to him with ...
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... once been so deeply enamoured . Barrow and Tillot- son superseded his former favourites , Juvenal and Dryden . His family increasing , he quickly perceived that his scanty curacy would prove insufficient to sup- port it with decency and ...
... once been so deeply enamoured . Barrow and Tillot- son superseded his former favourites , Juvenal and Dryden . His family increasing , he quickly perceived that his scanty curacy would prove insufficient to sup- port it with decency and ...
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Page lxii - 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.
Page 106 - 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 Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.
Page 83 - 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.
Page 105 - ... 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. Like an ill-judging beauty his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red.
Page 161 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
Page 184 - 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 108 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 106 - Till his relish, grown callous almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind. Ye Kenricks, ye Kellys...
Page 106 - 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 xxx - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the 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.