The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele ..editor, 1787 |
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... spirit and humour , raised it to as high a pitch of reputation as it could poffibly arrive at . By this good fortune the name of Ifaac Bick- erftaff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit ; and the addition of the ordinary ...
... spirit and humour , raised it to as high a pitch of reputation as it could poffibly arrive at . By this good fortune the name of Ifaac Bick- erftaff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit ; and the addition of the ordinary ...
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... spirit for the contempt of all imposture , than yourself ; which qualities render you the most proper patron for the Author of thefe Effays . In the general , the defign , however executed , has met with fo great fuccefs , that there is ...
... spirit for the contempt of all imposture , than yourself ; which qualities render you the most proper patron for the Author of thefe Effays . In the general , the defign , however executed , has met with fo great fuccefs , that there is ...
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... spirit as the prophet , " The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces . " If you agree with me in this , alter it by way of paraphrase or otherwise , that , when it comes into a volume , it may be amended . Your poem is already ...
... spirit as the prophet , " The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces . " If you agree with me in this , alter it by way of paraphrase or otherwise , that , when it comes into a volume , it may be amended . Your poem is already ...
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... spirits to Heaven's fa- vourites only ? I could point you to several , but it is my business to be informed of thofe faults I do not know ; and as for those I do , not to talk of them , but to correct them . You speak of that poem in a ...
... spirits to Heaven's fa- vourites only ? I could point you to several , but it is my business to be informed of thofe faults I do not know ; and as for those I do , not to talk of them , but to correct them . You speak of that poem in a ...
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Sir Richard Steele. Hark ! they whisper ; Angels fay , " Sifter Spirit , come away ! What is this absorbs me quite , Steals my fenfes , fhuts my fight , Drowns my fpirits , draws my breath ? Tell me , my foul , can this be Death ? The ...
Sir Richard Steele. Hark ! they whisper ; Angels fay , " Sifter Spirit , come away ! What is this absorbs me quite , Steals my fenfes , fhuts my fight , Drowns my fpirits , draws my breath ? Tell me , my foul , can this be Death ? The ...
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Էջ 343 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Էջ 333 - My youth has dealt more fairly and openly with me ; it has afforded several prospects of my danger, and given me an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much, and I begin where most people end...
Էջ 342 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,
Էջ 333 - Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our out-works.
Էջ 361 - ... unless I save him; and therefore I will not speak to him, that I may not report to his disadvantage.
Էջ 484 - I have only one gentleman, < who will be nameless,' to thank for any frequent assistance to me ; which, indeed, It would have been barbarous in him to have denied to one with whom he has lived in an intimacy from childhood, considering the great ease with which he is able to dispatch the most entertaining pieces of this nature.
Էջ 297 - ... conversant. The images which you will meet with here, will be very faint, after the perusal of the Greeks and Romans, who are your ordinary companions. I must confess I am obliged to you for the taste of many of their...
Էջ 461 - ... William, it being the 4th November, as to drink his friend Addison up to conversation pitch, whose phlegmatic constitution was hardly warmed for society by that time. Steele was not fit for it. Two remarkable circumstances happened. John Sly, the hatter of facetious memory, was in the house; and...
Էջ 332 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have...
Էջ 343 - I. Vital fpark of heav'nly fl.ame ! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame; Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the blifs of dying ! Ceafe, fond Nature, ceafe thy ftrife, And let me languifh into life. II. Hark ! they whifper ; Angels fay, Sifter Spirit, come away...