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, 第 1 巻J. Seeley, 1809 |
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... lord - treasurer Godolphin , auditor of the imprests , a place of great pecuniary emolument . In 1705 he was chosen a member of parlia- ment for Preston in Lancashire . He died at St. Alban's , November 13th , 1712 , aged 44. Mr ...
... lord - treasurer Godolphin , auditor of the imprests , a place of great pecuniary emolument . In 1705 he was chosen a member of parlia- ment for Preston in Lancashire . He died at St. Alban's , November 13th , 1712 , aged 44. Mr ...
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... Lord Chancellor of Ireland . To these may be added the Rev. George Stubbs , the Rev. Gilbert Burnet , and the Rev. Henry Steevens . Of these contributors by far the most consider able was Mr. Stubbs , many of the best papers in the ...
... Lord Chancellor of Ireland . To these may be added the Rev. George Stubbs , the Rev. Gilbert Burnet , and the Rev. Henry Steevens . Of these contributors by far the most consider able was Mr. Stubbs , many of the best papers in the ...
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... Lord Ty- rawley and Killmain . They consist of seventy- seven essays , thirty - three in the first volume , and forty - four in the second , on a great variety of subjects . They are written with much vivacity , and a few might be ...
... Lord Ty- rawley and Killmain . They consist of seventy- seven essays , thirty - three in the first volume , and forty - four in the second , on a great variety of subjects . They are written with much vivacity , and a few might be ...
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... Lord Paget , then Ambassador at the Court of Constantinople . For this city , therefore , he em- barked in 1700 , and was fortunately well received by his Lordship , who procured him an able tutor , under whose directions he travelled ...
... Lord Paget , then Ambassador at the Court of Constantinople . For this city , therefore , he em- barked in 1700 , and was fortunately well received by his Lordship , who procured him an able tutor , under whose directions he travelled ...
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... Lord Cham- berlain , induced him , in a few months , to give up the management of the Theatre ; and the failure of a scheme , for which he had obtained a patent in 1713 , to make sweet oil from beech - nuts , in- volved him in heavy ...
... Lord Cham- berlain , induced him , in a few months , to give up the management of the Theatre ; and the failure of a scheme , for which he had obtained a patent in 1713 , to make sweet oil from beech - nuts , in- volved him in heavy ...
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339 ページ - 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.
301 ページ - 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.
248 ページ - 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.
330 ページ - 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.
132 ページ - 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...
367 ページ - 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.
332 ページ - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
167 ページ - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
338 ページ - ... 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...
368 ページ - 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.