The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of Dean Swift, Հատոր 4R. Griffiths, 1753 - 356 էջ |
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Էջ 78
... performances . What other pieces the major has written in verfe , are , for the most part , the unlaboured re- fult of friendship , or love ; and the amufement of thofe few folitary intervals in a life that feldom wanted either ferious ...
... performances . What other pieces the major has written in verfe , are , for the most part , the unlaboured re- fult of friendship , or love ; and the amufement of thofe few folitary intervals in a life that feldom wanted either ferious ...
Էջ 84
... performance , written when but a youth of feventeen , was a Novel , dedicat- ed to Mrs. Katherine Levefon , which gave proof , not only of a great vivacity of wit , but al- fo a fluency of itile , and a folid judgment . He was confcious ...
... performance , written when but a youth of feventeen , was a Novel , dedicat- ed to Mrs. Katherine Levefon , which gave proof , not only of a great vivacity of wit , but al- fo a fluency of itile , and a folid judgment . He was confcious ...
Էջ 85
... performance is entitled Incognita , or Love and Duty Reconciled ; it has been afferted that this is a real hiftory , and though the fcene is laid in Italy , the adventures happened in England ; it is not our bufir.efs to enter into the ...
... performance is entitled Incognita , or Love and Duty Reconciled ; it has been afferted that this is a real hiftory , and though the fcene is laid in Italy , the adventures happened in England ; it is not our bufir.efs to enter into the ...
Էջ 86
... performance , which was the Old Batchelor ; of which Mr. Dry- den faid , he never faw fuch a firft play in his life , adding , that the author not being acquainted with the ftage , or the town , it would be pity to have it mifcarry for ...
... performance , which was the Old Batchelor ; of which Mr. Dry- den faid , he never faw fuch a firft play in his life , adding , that the author not being acquainted with the ftage , or the town , it would be pity to have it mifcarry for ...
Էջ 93
... performance added fpirit to his dramatic pieces ; but he forgot her , and gratified his vanity by chufing to make a rich duchess his fole legatee , and executrix . Mr. Congreve was the fon of fortune , as well as of the mufes . He was ...
... performance added fpirit to his dramatic pieces ; but he forgot her , and gratified his vanity by chufing to make a rich duchess his fole legatee , and executrix . Mr. Congreve was the fon of fortune , as well as of the mufes . He was ...
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Էջ 12 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Էջ 193 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Էջ 236 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and...
Էջ 236 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Էջ 116 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Էջ 106 - Richard would call for the reckoning, and return home; but his expectations deceived him, for Sir Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for...
Էջ 105 - Richard, with an air of the utmost importance, to come very early to his house the next morning. Mr. Savage came as he had promised, found the chariot at the door, and Sir Richard waiting for him, and ready to go out. What was intended, and whither they were to go, Savage could not conjecture, and was not willing to inquire ; but immediately seated himself with Sir Richard.
Էջ 161 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Էջ 111 - any, not the remotest relation to public matters, nor correspondence with the persons then predominant, until the year 1657 ; when indeed I entered into an employment, for which I was not altogether improper, and which I considered to be the most innocent and inoffensive towards his majesty's affairs, of any in that usurped and irregular government, to which all men were then exposed.
Էջ 236 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.