Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler ; and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eight Volume of the Spectator and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Том 1J. Seeley, 1809 |
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... receiving their elegant contribu- tions . That they completely failed in their de- sign , is evident from the circumstance , that not one of them , with the exception of the Lay Monastery , can be read with any degree of inter- est or ...
... receiving their elegant contribu- tions . That they completely failed in their de- sign , is evident from the circumstance , that not one of them , with the exception of the Lay Monastery , can be read with any degree of inter- est or ...
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... received a grammatical educa- tion at Isleworth in Middlesex , applied himself to his father's profession , which was that of the Law . This , however , he soon relinquished to become a poet , an essayist , and an editor ; in the first ...
... received a grammatical educa- tion at Isleworth in Middlesex , applied himself to his father's profession , which was that of the Law . This , however , he soon relinquished to become a poet , an essayist , and an editor ; in the first ...
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... received , appeared in 1725. The * The author says in his preface , that they had already appeared abroad singly , and , being well received , the bookseller was encouraged to gather them into a volume . first volume is dedicated , in a ...
... received , appeared in 1725. The * The author says in his preface , that they had already appeared abroad singly , and , being well received , the bookseller was encouraged to gather them into a volume . first volume is dedicated , in a ...
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... received by his Lordship , who procured him an able tutor , under whose directions he travelled through a great part of the East , visiting Egypt , Palestine , & c . He returned to England in 1703 , in the Ambassador's suite ; and ...
... received by his Lordship , who procured him an able tutor , under whose directions he travelled through a great part of the East , visiting Egypt , Palestine , & c . He returned to England in 1703 , in the Ambassador's suite ; and ...
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... received with great applause . His prospects , however , soon clouded ; a dis- agreement with the Duke of Kent , Lord Cham- berlain , induced him , in a few months , to give up the management of the Theatre ; and the failure of a scheme ...
... received with great applause . His prospects , however , soon clouded ; a dis- agreement with the Duke of Kent , Lord Cham- berlain , induced him , in a few months , to give up the management of the Theatre ; and the failure of a scheme ...
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Страница 339 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Страница 301 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Страница 248 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Страница 330 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water," and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Страница 132 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Страница 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Страница 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
Страница 167 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Страница 338 - ... author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great...
Страница 368 - He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.