Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 |
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Sivu 14
... wrote more than twenty years after Smith's death : - ' He was , and is still , commonly known by the name of Captain Rag . ' Genuineness , & c . , p . 40 . Lord Castledurrow wrote to Swift in 1736 - ' It grieves me to think that over ...
... wrote more than twenty years after Smith's death : - ' He was , and is still , commonly known by the name of Captain Rag . ' Genuineness , & c . , p . 40 . Lord Castledurrow wrote to Swift in 1736 - ' It grieves me to think that over ...
Sivu 15
... wrote the prologue ( Addi- son's Works , vi . 533 ) and Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very happily facetious . ' Post , PRIOR , 60. It begins : - ' Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who ...
... wrote the prologue ( Addi- son's Works , vi . 533 ) and Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very happily facetious . ' Post , PRIOR , 60. It begins : - ' Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who ...
Sivu 28
... wrote on Feb. 14 , 1753 : - ' Sir Hans Sloane is dead , and has made me one of the trustees to his museum , which is to be offered for £ 20,000 to the King , the Parliament , ' & c . Letters , ii . 320 . With money raised by lottery ...
... wrote on Feb. 14 , 1753 : - ' Sir Hans Sloane is dead , and has made me one of the trustees to his museum , which is to be offered for £ 20,000 to the King , the Parliament , ' & c . Letters , ii . 320 . With money raised by lottery ...
Sivu 29
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though 11 fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's ...
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though 11 fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's ...
Sivu 30
... wrote can teach , every number from 13 to 45. Swift's Works , iii . 185 , 251-509 ; King's Works , Preface , p . 21 ; post , PRIOR , 22 ; SWIFT , 39 . The Duke died in 1707. The adulation mainly lay in Kennet's praise of the Duke as a ...
... wrote can teach , every number from 13 to 45. Swift's Works , iii . 185 , 251-509 ; King's Works , Preface , p . 21 ; post , PRIOR , 22 ; SWIFT , 39 . The Duke died in 1707. The adulation mainly lay in Kennet's praise of the Duke as a ...
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Sivu 150 - 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 276 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Sivu 34 - ... a true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king...
Sivu 146 - Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Sivu 149 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Sivu 230 - Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen— Leon. Hark! Aim No, all is hush'd, and still as death — 'tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Sivu 434 - Savage did not exempt him; or if those who in confidence of superior capacities or attainments disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Sivu 117 - Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life, and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him ; but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to be tried: when he found his life near its end, he directed the young Lord to be called; and when he desired, with great tenderness, to hear his last injunctions, told him, I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
Sivu 253 - The incessant attacks of his enemies, whether serious or merry, are never discovered to have disturbed his quiet, or to have lessened his confidence in himself.
Sivu 249 - Blackmore led him to gratify, and he produced (1721) a new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...