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... Warton , and other wits of both the universi- ties , distinguished their talents . It preceded the Rambler about two months ; and , in the number for October 1750 † , the following very just and handsome tribute is paid to the merits of ...
... Warton , and other wits of both the universi- ties , distinguished their talents . It preceded the Rambler about two months ; and , in the number for October 1750 † , the following very just and handsome tribute is paid to the merits of ...
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... Warton , Mrs Chapone , and Mr Colman . Dr Bathurst was the first coadjutor whom he called to his assistance . The papers contri- buted by him are in number eight . They have for their signature the letter A , and are chiefly of the ...
... Warton , Mrs Chapone , and Mr Colman . Dr Bathurst was the first coadjutor whom he called to his assistance . The papers contri- buted by him are in number eight . They have for their signature the letter A , and are chiefly of the ...
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... Warton . 66 Being desired , ( March 8 , 1753 ) by the author and proprietor of the Adventurer , to look out for another hand , my thoughts ne- cessarily fixed upon you , whose fund of lite- rature will enable you to assist them , with ...
... Warton . 66 Being desired , ( March 8 , 1753 ) by the author and proprietor of the Adventurer , to look out for another hand , my thoughts ne- cessarily fixed upon you , whose fund of lite- rature will enable you to assist them , with ...
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... Warton , his old college , Pembroke , and received the greatest civilities from the resident fellows , of his standing , who pressed him much to have a room in the college . • " As we were leaving the college , " he said to Mr Warton ...
... Warton , his old college , Pembroke , and received the greatest civilities from the resident fellows , of his standing , who pressed him much to have a room in the college . • " As we were leaving the college , " he said to Mr Warton ...
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... Warton informed him that he was then at Oxford on a visit to his brother , but labouring under the most deplorable languor of body and dejection of mind . " Poor dear Collins ! " he said to Mr Warton ; " Would I have a a letter give him ...
... Warton informed him that he was then at Oxford on a visit to his brother , but labouring under the most deplorable languor of body and dejection of mind . " Poor dear Collins ! " he said to Mr Warton ; " Would I have a a letter give him ...
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Sivu 509 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Sivu 296 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Sivu 568 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Sivu 210 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Sivu 209 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an...
Sivu 97 - Then, sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes would be saying nothing." The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson; one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing that he dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Sivu 570 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Sivu 287 - ... and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk.
Sivu 95 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. "Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.
Sivu 36 - 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.