Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... thought , a depth of research , and an acuteness of dis- putation , which we cannot read too often in his " Table - Talk . ” In SPENCE lived in an age when Taste first appeared among us , and Literature first began to diffuse itself ...
... thought , a depth of research , and an acuteness of dis- putation , which we cannot read too often in his " Table - Talk . ” In SPENCE lived in an age when Taste first appeared among us , and Literature first began to diffuse itself ...
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... thoughts of writ- ing a Persian Fable ; in which I should have given full loose to description and imagination . It ... thought of writ- ing such , and talked it over with Gay , but other things came in my way and took me off from it ...
... thoughts of writ- ing a Persian Fable ; in which I should have given full loose to description and imagination . It ... thought of writ- ing such , and talked it over with Gay , but other things came in my way and took me off from it ...
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... thought it one of the best I had ever written ) of a very great man , who had every thing from without to make him happy , and yet was very miserable , from the want of virtue in his own heart . - The same . [ It seems to have been that ...
... thought it one of the best I had ever written ) of a very great man , who had every thing from without to make him happy , and yet was very miserable , from the want of virtue in his own heart . - The same . [ It seems to have been that ...
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... thoughts and reasonings in his Moral Work ; and once in particular said , that beside their frequent talking over that subject together , he had received , I think , seven or eight sheets from Lord Boling- broke , in relation to it ( as ...
... thoughts and reasonings in his Moral Work ; and once in particular said , that beside their frequent talking over that subject together , he had received , I think , seven or eight sheets from Lord Boling- broke , in relation to it ( as ...
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... thought of rivalling that great man , whose memory I do , and have always reverenced ! -The same . When Dr. Swift ... thoughts . " On this hint we both agreed to write down all the volunteer reflections that should thus come into our ...
... thought of rivalling that great man , whose memory I do , and have always reverenced ! -The same . When Dr. Swift ... thoughts . " On this hint we both agreed to write down all the volunteer reflections that should thus come into our ...
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Էջ 133 - That's very strange ; but if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings— tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket ?' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Էջ 108 - A little after Dryden went out; and in going, spoke to me again, and desired me to come and see him the next day. I was highly delighted with the invitation; went to see him accordingly : and was well acquainted with him after, as long as he lived.
Էջ 159 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Էջ 83 - Shakspeare had just arrived, and the boy sent for from school to him, a head of one of the colleges (who was pretty well acquainted with the affairs of the family) met the child running home, and asked him, whither he was going in so much haste? The boy said, "•To my godfather, Shakspeare.
Էջ 148 - Snch a post as that, and such a wife as the Countess, do not seem to be, in prudence, eligible for a man that is asthmatic, and we may see the day when he will be heartily glad to resign them both.
Էջ 129 - Prior was not a right good man. He used to bury himself for whole days and nights together with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard.
Էջ 136 - OOOJJO some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
Էջ 10 - Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should...
Էջ 8 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.
Էջ 30 - I was a great admirer of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and that was one of the chief reasons that set me upon the thoughts of stealing the Latin language. Mr. Wortley was the only person to whom I communicated my design, and he encouraged me in it. I used to study five or six hours a day for two years in my father's library ; and so got that language, whilst everybody else thought I was reading nothing but novels and romances.