1730-1784Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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... believe that the world is right in setting Shakespeare above Swinburne , and Homer above Tupper - is , I believe , the true and the only guide in the selection of books to read . In the long run , noth- ing but truth , simplicity ...
... believe that the world is right in setting Shakespeare above Swinburne , and Homer above Tupper - is , I believe , the true and the only guide in the selection of books to read . In the long run , noth- ing but truth , simplicity ...
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... believe rather a Complica- tion first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not discharging themselves , as he used no sort of Exer- cise . No man better bore y approaches of his Dissolution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
... believe rather a Complica- tion first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not discharging themselves , as he used no sort of Exer- cise . No man better bore y approaches of his Dissolution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
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... believe himself des- tined for immortality . . . . The fame of Echard , so imposing to his contem- poraries , has long since passed away . He now neither awakens envy nor merits attention . He was , however , successful in carrying off ...
... believe himself des- tined for immortality . . . . The fame of Echard , so imposing to his contem- poraries , has long since passed away . He now neither awakens envy nor merits attention . He was , however , successful in carrying off ...
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... believe that Defoe was not himself satisfied that the part he now played was consistent with honour . " No obligation , " he says , " could excuse me in calling evil good , or good evil . " This was written only a year before the ...
... believe that Defoe was not himself satisfied that the part he now played was consistent with honour . " No obligation , " he says , " could excuse me in calling evil good , or good evil . " This was written only a year before the ...
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... believe , has afforded such great delight . Neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey , in the much longer course of ages , has incited so many to enterprise , or to reliance on their own powers and capacities . It is the romance of solitude ...
... believe , has afforded such great delight . Neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey , in the much longer course of ages , has incited so many to enterprise , or to reliance on their own powers and capacities . It is the romance of solitude ...
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Էջ 127 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Էջ 547 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Էջ 8 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Էջ 328 - After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it —
Էջ 127 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Էջ 5 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Էջ 53 - Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with...
Էջ 200 - He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Էջ 164 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Էջ 217 - He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth, And sets the passions on the side of Truth, Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest Art, And pours each human virtue in the heart.