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... .. THOMSON WATTS .. A. PHILIPS . WEST 51 .... 207 210 226 ... 235 245 COLLINS DYER 249 255 SHENSTONE . YOUNG ..... 258 267 MALLET 324 AKENSIDE 331 .. GRAY 339 LYTTELTON VOL . III . 354 SWIFT . AN account of Dr. Swift has been already.
... .. THOMSON WATTS .. A. PHILIPS . WEST 51 .... 207 210 226 ... 235 245 COLLINS DYER 249 255 SHENSTONE . YOUNG ..... 258 267 MALLET 324 AKENSIDE 331 .. GRAY 339 LYTTELTON VOL . III . 354 SWIFT . AN account of Dr. Swift has been already.
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... young man , found his argu- ments , and his art of displaying them , made total- ly ineffectual by the predetermination of the king ; and used to mention this disappointment as his first antidote against vanity . Before he left Ireland ...
... young man , found his argu- ments , and his art of displaying them , made total- ly ineffectual by the predetermination of the king ; and used to mention this disappointment as his first antidote against vanity . Before he left Ireland ...
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... young woman whose name was Johnson , the daughter of the stew- ard of Sir William Temple , who , in consideration of ... young man ; " and , still persisting to doubt , that he was " a very posi- tive young man . " 66 Three years ...
... young woman whose name was Johnson , the daughter of the stew- ard of Sir William Temple , who , in consideration of ... young man ; " and , still persisting to doubt , that he was " a very posi- tive young man . " 66 Three years ...
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... young woman fond of literature , whom Decanus , the Dean , called Ca- denus , by transposition of the letters , took plea- sure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift ...
... young woman fond of literature , whom Decanus , the Dean , called Ca- denus , by transposition of the letters , took plea- sure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift ...
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... young was This weakness was so great that he constantly wore stays , as I have been assured by a waterman at Twickenham , who , in lifting him into his boat , had often felt them . His method of taking the air on the water was to have a ...
... young was This weakness was so great that he constantly wore stays , as I have been assured by a waterman at Twickenham , who , in lifting him into his boat , had often felt them . His method of taking the air on the water was to have a ...
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Aaron Hill Addison afterwards appears Atrides blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character composition copy criticism Curll death delight diction diligence discovered Dorset downs Dryden Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry Epistle epitaph Essay excellence fame father faults favour friendship genius Grongar Hill Homer honour Iliad images Ireland kind King known labour lady language learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke lyrick Lyttelton Mallet mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers once opinion passages perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced prose publick published reader reason received reputation rhyme satire says seems sent shew shewn solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift tell thing Thomson tion told translation truth virtue Warburton Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young
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Página 203 - Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms—
Página 65 - Guardian"; he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till she should be able to direct herself. Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.
Página 260 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Página 41 - That's very strange ; but, if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings ; tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Página 225 - ... as books or conversation extended his knowledge and opened his prospects. They are, I think, improved in general; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their "race," a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil.
Página 223 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Página 118 - His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause.
Página 127 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Página 196 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 148 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.