Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 第 9 巻J. Nichols, 1781 - 2068 ページ |
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... verses , the pecu- liar circumstances of the author , the novelty of the fubject , and the notoriety of the story to which the allufions are made , procured this . performance a very favourable reception ; great numbers were immediately ...
... verses , the pecu- liar circumstances of the author , the novelty of the fubject , and the notoriety of the story to which the allufions are made , procured this . performance a very favourable reception ; great numbers were immediately ...
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... worthy of the ornaments of verse . The fettlement of colonies in uninhabited countries , the establishment of thofe in fecurity , whose misfortunes misfortunes have made their own country no longer pleafing or SAVAGE . 97.
... worthy of the ornaments of verse . The fettlement of colonies in uninhabited countries , the establishment of thofe in fecurity , whose misfortunes misfortunes have made their own country no longer pleafing or SAVAGE . 97.
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... verse in the dangers or pleasures of the chafe , he has done all that tranfition and va- riety could easily effect ; and has , with great propriety , enlarged his plan by the modes of hunting ufed in other coun- tries . With fill lefs ...
... verse in the dangers or pleasures of the chafe , he has done all that tranfition and va- riety could easily effect ; and has , with great propriety , enlarged his plan by the modes of hunting ufed in other coun- tries . With fill lefs ...
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... verses . The biographer of Thomfon has remarked , that an author's Life is beft read in his works : his obfervation was not well - timed . Savage , who lived much with Thomfon , once told me , how he heard a lady remarking that the 1 ...
... verses . The biographer of Thomfon has remarked , that an author's Life is beft read in his works : his obfervation was not well - timed . Savage , who lived much with Thomfon , once told me , how he heard a lady remarking that the 1 ...
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... , what is still more precious , give thy tear . Surely no blame can fall upon the nymph who rejected a swain of fo little meaning . His verses are not rugged , but they have no His HAMMON D. 7 Like other lovers, he threatens the ...
... , what is still more precious , give thy tear . Surely no blame can fall upon the nymph who rejected a swain of fo little meaning . His verses are not rugged , but they have no His HAMMON D. 7 Like other lovers, he threatens the ...
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accufation afferted affiftance afterwards againſt appeared aſk becauſe beſtowed cenfure cife compaffion confeffed confequence confiderable confidered contempt converfation death declared deferve defign defired diftinguiſhed diftrefs diſcovered eafily endeavoured expence expofe faid fame fatire favour feems fent fhall fhew fhort fhould firſt folicited fome fometimes foon friends ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fupported generofity genius herſelf himſelf houfe houſe imagined infult intereft kindneſs laſt leaſt lefs likewife Lord Tyrconnel mankind mifery mind misfortunes moſt mother muſt nature neceffary neceffities never obferved obliged occafion paffion penfion perfons perhaps pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem praiſe preffing profe profpect promiſe propofed publiſhed Queen racter raiſed reaſon received refentment refolution regard Savage Savage's ſcheme ſhe Sir Richard Sir Richard Steele Sir Robert Walpole ſpeak ſtage ſtate ſtudy tenderneſs thefe themſelves Theophilus Cibber theſe thofe Thomfon thoſe thought tion tragedy uſe utmoſt verfes virtue whofe whoſe write
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129 ページ - This relation will not be wholly without its use if those who languish under any part of his sufferings shall be enabled to fortify their patience by reflecting that they feel only those afflictions from which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him ; or...
1 ページ - Shilling is, that it is short. Disguise can gratify no longer than it deceives. SAVAGE IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and...
14 ページ - ... reckoning and return home; but his expectations deceived him, for Sir Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for; and Savage was therefore obliged to go and offer their new production to sale for two guineas, which with some difficulty he obtained.
14 ページ - Savage then imagined his task over, and expected that Sir Richard would call for the reckoning, and return home ; but his expectations deceived him, for Sir Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for...
38 ページ - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
5 ページ - Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was in two months illegitimated by the parliament and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life, only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands or dashed upon its rocks.
13 ページ - Richard, with an air of the utmoft importance, to come very early to his houfe the next morning. Mr. Savage came as he had promifed, found the chariot at the door, and Sir Richard waiting for him, and ready to go out. What was intended, and whither they were to go, Savage could not conjecture, and was not willing to...
35 ページ - ... and suffered him to pursue no settled purpose. A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote inquiries.
40 ページ - His morals were pure, and his opinions pious: in a long continuance of poverty, and long habits of dissipation, it cannot be expected that any character should be exactly uniform. There is a degree of want by which the freedom of agency is almost destroyed ; and long association with fortuitous companions will at last relax the strictness of truth, and abate the fervour of sincerity.
21 ページ - Gentlemen of the Jury, you are to consider, that Mr Savage is a very great Man, a much greater Man than you or I, Gentlemen of the Jury ; that he wears very fine Clothes, much finer Clothes than you or I, Gentlemen of the Jury...