The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele ..editor, 1787 |
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... Prefixed to " The Funeral , or Grief à - la - mode , a Comedy , " 1702. " The fuccefs of this performance was chiefly owing to the zeal of his fellow - foldiers , arifing from his intereft in the army . Ifabella , 2d daughter of s ...
... Prefixed to " The Funeral , or Grief à - la - mode , a Comedy , " 1702. " The fuccefs of this performance was chiefly owing to the zeal of his fellow - foldiers , arifing from his intereft in the army . Ifabella , 2d daughter of s ...
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... Prefixed to " The Lying Lover , or the Ladies Friendship , a Comedy , 1704. ” James Butler , Duke of Ormond , born April 29 , 1665 , was fent to France at ten years of age , and on his return admitted of Chrift - church , Oxford , of ...
... Prefixed to " The Lying Lover , or the Ladies Friendship , a Comedy , 1704. ” James Butler , Duke of Ormond , born April 29 , 1665 , was fent to France at ten years of age , and on his return admitted of Chrift - church , Oxford , of ...
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... look ill - natured , immoral , or prejudi- Prefixed to " The Tender Husband ; " which was first acted in 1704 , but not printed till 1705 . cial to what the better part of mankind hold facred cial 290 ST.EELE'S LETTERS To Mr Addifon.
... look ill - natured , immoral , or prejudi- Prefixed to " The Tender Husband ; " which was first acted in 1704 , but not printed till 1705 . cial to what the better part of mankind hold facred cial 290 ST.EELE'S LETTERS To Mr Addifon.
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... Prefixed to the first volume of " The Tatler . " + Arthur Maynwaring , efq . " His works fet the character " of his genius above the reach of the criticism of others , and " he was himself allowed universally to be the best critic of ...
... Prefixed to the first volume of " The Tatler . " + Arthur Maynwaring , efq . " His works fet the character " of his genius above the reach of the criticism of others , and " he was himself allowed universally to be the best critic of ...
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... Prefixed to the fecond volume of " The Tatler . " Second fon of the Hon . Lady Wortley Montague , and grandson of Edward Montague , the firft Earl of Sandwich . He was chosen a member of parliament for Huntingdon in the 4th year of ...
... Prefixed to the fecond volume of " The Tatler . " Second fon of the Hon . Lady Wortley Montague , and grandson of Edward Montague , the firft Earl of Sandwich . He was chosen a member of parliament for Huntingdon in the 4th year of ...
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Common terms and phrases
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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...