Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... by what he added it seemed to be the late Master of the Rolls , Fortescue . ] Dr. Arbuthnot was the sole writer of John Bull , and so was Gay of the Beggar's Opera . I own appearances are against the latter , OF MEN AND BOOKS . 5.
... by what he added it seemed to be the late Master of the Rolls , Fortescue . ] Dr. Arbuthnot was the sole writer of John Bull , and so was Gay of the Beggar's Opera . I own appearances are against the latter , OF MEN AND BOOKS . 5.
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... masters ; which was at first almost wholly by imitation . Mr. Addison did not discover Mr. Pope's style in the letter on pastorals which he published in the Guar- dian ; but then that was a disguised style . Mr. Pope had certainly a ...
... masters ; which was at first almost wholly by imitation . Mr. Addison did not discover Mr. Pope's style in the letter on pastorals which he published in the Guar- dian ; but then that was a disguised style . Mr. Pope had certainly a ...
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... masters lost what little I had got under my first . About twelve I went with my father into the Forest , and there learned for a few months under a fourth priest . This was all the teaching I ever had ; and , God knows , it extended a ...
... masters lost what little I had got under my first . About twelve I went with my father into the Forest , and there learned for a few months under a fourth priest . This was all the teaching I ever had ; and , God knows , it extended a ...
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... Master , and taken from thence on that account . -Mrs . Racket * ( of Mr. Pope ) . all I never saw him laugh very heartily in my life . - Mrs . R. ( of the same . ) This is odd enough ; because she was with him so much in all the first ...
... Master , and taken from thence on that account . -Mrs . Racket * ( of Mr. Pope ) . all I never saw him laugh very heartily in my life . - Mrs . R. ( of the same . ) This is odd enough ; because she was with him so much in all the first ...
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... master . Then he was a little while at Mr. Dean's seminary at Mary - le - bone , and some time under the same after he removed to Hyde - park- corner . After this he taught himself both Greek and Latin . " I did not follow the grammar ...
... master . Then he was a little while at Mr. Dean's seminary at Mary - le - bone , and some time under the same after he removed to Hyde - park- corner . After this he taught himself both Greek and Latin . " I did not follow the grammar ...
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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.