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... imagination ; what he strives to enlist on his side is homely self - interest , and the ordinary sense of what is right and reasonable . There is little regularity of method in the development of his argument ; that he leaves to more ...
... imagination ; what he strives to enlist on his side is homely self - interest , and the ordinary sense of what is right and reasonable . There is little regularity of method in the development of his argument ; that he leaves to more ...
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... goldsmiths as before . His Highways project was a scheme for making national highways on a scale worthy of Baron Haussmann . There is more ,, 66 fervid imagination and daring ingenuity than business talent in Defoe's 18 ACME BIOGRAPHY .
... goldsmiths as before . His Highways project was a scheme for making national highways on a scale worthy of Baron Haussmann . There is more ,, 66 fervid imagination and daring ingenuity than business talent in Defoe's 18 ACME BIOGRAPHY .
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Third Series. fervid imagination and daring ingenuity than business talent in Defoe's essay ; if his trading speculations were conducted with equal rashness , it is not difficult to understand their failure . The most notable of them are ...
Third Series. fervid imagination and daring ingenuity than business talent in Defoe's essay ; if his trading speculations were conducted with equal rashness , it is not difficult to understand their failure . The most notable of them are ...
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... more authentic history than his Journal of the Plague , or his Memoirs of a Cavalier , and that for many of the incidents he is equally indebted to his imagination . CHAPTER IV . THE REVIEW OF THE AFFAIRS OF FRANCE DANIEL DEFOE . 37.
... more authentic history than his Journal of the Plague , or his Memoirs of a Cavalier , and that for many of the incidents he is equally indebted to his imagination . CHAPTER IV . THE REVIEW OF THE AFFAIRS OF FRANCE DANIEL DEFOE . 37.
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... imagination for more than the title - pages . But why , when he had so many eminent and notorious persons to serve as his subjects , with all the advantages of bearing names about which the public were already curious , did he turn to ...
... imagination for more than the title - pages . But why , when he had so many eminent and notorious persons to serve as his subjects , with all the advantages of bearing names about which the public were already curious , did he turn to ...
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Страница 133 - 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 220 - Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Страница 426 - Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Страница 289 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew: 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher, too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge.
Страница 288 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
Страница 289 - A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Страница 288 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Страница 133 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native...
Страница 259 - He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting with Johnson was on Friday the 1st of July, when he and I and Dr.
Страница 281 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!