Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 - English literature |
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... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
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... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
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... elegance , and had the honour of being liberally praised by Addison in the thirty - ninth number of The Lover . Having adopted the Whig principles of his friend , the path of political promotion was soon laid open to his view by the ...
... elegance , and had the honour of being liberally praised by Addison in the thirty - ninth number of The Lover . Having adopted the Whig principles of his friend , the path of political promotion was soon laid open to his view by the ...
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... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
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... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . His poems on the ...
... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . His poems on the ...
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Page 67 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 66 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Page 88 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Page 381 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Page 88 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Page 104 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Page 297 - That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
Page 227 - O'er which were shadowy cast elysian gleams, That played, in waving lights, from place to place ; And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
Page 342 - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
Page 381 - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.