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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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 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.