Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... heard a single word of it till on this occasion . This surprise of Dr. Young , together with what Steele has said against Tickell in relation to this affair , make it highly probable that there was some underhand dealing in that ...
... heard a single word of it till on this occasion . This surprise of Dr. Young , together with what Steele has said against Tickell in relation to this affair , make it highly probable that there was some underhand dealing in that ...
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... heard , I wrote a letter to Mr. 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 not be in such a dirty way ; and that I should rather ...
... heard , I wrote a letter to Mr. 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 not be in such a dirty way ; and that I should rather ...
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... heard him mention it several times , and he has printed it as well as said it . But I suppose in both he must speak of writers when they use a borrowed style , and not when they write in their own . He himself had the greatest compass ...
... heard him mention it several times , and he has printed it as well as said it . But I suppose in both he must speak of writers when they use a borrowed style , and not when they write in their own . He himself had the greatest compass ...
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... heard for the first time that Dennis had written against me , it gave me some pain ; but it was quite over as soon as I came to look into his book , and found he was in such a passion . - The same . When I was looking over some things I ...
... heard for the first time that Dennis had written against me , it gave me some pain ; but it was quite over as soon as I came to look into his book , and found he was in such a passion . - The same . When I was looking over some things I ...
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... that nothing should be demanded of me for it . I thanked his lordship in ge- neral , and seemed to want time to consider of it . I heard nothing farther for some F time and about three months after I wrote to Lord OF MEN AND BOOKS . 65.
... that nothing should be demanded of me for it . I thanked his lordship in ge- neral , and seemed to want time to consider of it . I heard nothing farther for some F time and about three months after I wrote to Lord OF MEN AND BOOKS . 65.
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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 112 - One day, as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner : " and then gave him the plan for it.
Էջ 134 - 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 136 - 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!
Էջ 10 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his ; that if I...
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 19 - It was while I lived in the Forest, that I got so well acquainted with Sir William Trumbull, who loved very much to read and talk of the classics in his retirement. We used to take a ride out together, three or four days in the week, and at last, almost every day.—Another of my earliest acquaintance was Walsh. I was with him at his seat in Worcestershire, for a good part of the summer of 1705, and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706.
Էջ 47 - P I endeavoured, (said he, smiling), in this poem, to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece : there was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius; here Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian.
Էջ 62 - He observed, how well that would hit my case, if I were to imitate it in English. After he was gone, I read it over ; translated it in a morning or two, and sent it to the press in a week or fortnight after. And this was the occasion of my imitating some other of the satires and epistles afterwards.