Prefaces,Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets1781 |
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... able to teach others the way to happiness , fhould with moft certain- ty follow it themselves . But this expectation , however plaufible , has been very frequently difappointed . The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been ...
... able to teach others the way to happiness , fhould with moft certain- ty follow it themselves . But this expectation , however plaufible , has been very frequently difappointed . The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been ...
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... able to keep his promises , or execute his own intentions ; and , as he was never able to raise the fum which he had offered , the marriage was delayed . In the mean time he was officioufly informed , that Mr. Savage had ridiculed ...
... able to keep his promises , or execute his own intentions ; and , as he was never able to raise the fum which he had offered , the marriage was delayed . In the mean time he was officioufly informed , that Mr. Savage had ridiculed ...
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... able to bring his play upon the ftage in the fummer , when the chief actors had retired , and the reft were in poffeffion of the houfe for their own advantage . Among thefe , of Mr. Savage was admitted to play the part Sir Thomas ...
... able to bring his play upon the ftage in the fummer , when the chief actors had retired , and the reft were in poffeffion of the houfe for their own advantage . Among thefe , of Mr. Savage was admitted to play the part Sir Thomas ...
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... able to return ; that it was always allowable to prevent an affault , and to preferve life by taking away that of the ad- verfary , by whom it was endangered . : With regard to the violence with which he endeavoured to escape , he ...
... able to return ; that it was always allowable to prevent an affault , and to preferve life by taking away that of the ad- verfary , by whom it was endangered . : With regard to the violence with which he endeavoured to escape , he ...
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... able to deny himself , though he purchased the luxury of a fingle night by the anguish of cold and hunger for a week . The experience of thefe inconveniences deter mined him to endeavour after fome fettled in- come , which , having long ...
... able to deny himself , though he purchased the luxury of a fingle night by the anguish of cold and hunger for a week . The experience of thefe inconveniences deter mined him to endeavour after fome fettled in- come , which , having long ...
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8 ページ - ... a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens.
37 ページ - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments.
6 ページ - By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics, which he engaged to write with a large commentary, advanced as much money as enabled him to escape into the country. He showed me the guineas safe in his hand.
77 ページ - Bastard, he laments in a very affecting manner : — No Mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No Father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrain'd.
38 ページ - The great defect of the Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation.
37 ページ - His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter take in their turns possession of the mind.
34 ページ - ... but, said Savage, he knows not any love but that of the sex; he was perhaps never in cold water in his life; and he indulges himself in all the luxury that comes within his reach.
14 ページ - The approaches of this dreadful malady he began to feel soon after his uncle's death ; and, with the usual weakness of men so diseased, eagerly snatched that temporary relief with which the table and the bottle flatter and seduce.
4 ページ - He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.