The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of Dean Swift, 第 4 巻R. Griffiths, 1753 - 356 ページ |
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... ' audacious foe , fo late fubdu'd , Difpute thofe terms for which fo long they fu'd , As if Britannia now were funk fo low , To beg that peace fhe wanted to bestow . Be Be far , that guilt ! be never known that CONGREVE . 95.
... ' audacious foe , fo late fubdu'd , Difpute thofe terms for which fo long they fu'd , As if Britannia now were funk fo low , To beg that peace fhe wanted to bestow . Be Be far , that guilt ! be never known that CONGREVE . 95.
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... late works neglect , No temples , ftatues , obelisks erect ; But catch the morning breeze from fragrant meads . Or fhun the noon - tide ray in wholesome shades ; Or lowly walk along the mazy wood , To meditate on all that's wife and ...
... late works neglect , No temples , ftatues , obelisks erect ; But catch the morning breeze from fragrant meads . Or fhun the noon - tide ray in wholesome shades ; Or lowly walk along the mazy wood , To meditate on all that's wife and ...
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... late years , and a paper intitled The Lover ; the firft of which appeared Thurfday Fe- bruary 25 , 1714 , and another intitled the Reader , which began on Thursday April 22 , the fame year . In the fixth Number of this laft paper , he ...
... late years , and a paper intitled The Lover ; the firft of which appeared Thurfday Fe- bruary 25 , 1714 , and another intitled the Reader , which began on Thursday April 22 , the fame year . In the fixth Number of this laft paper , he ...
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... late dear husband , under his own hand writing , both found fince his death , among ? his other papers . Witness my hand , MARY MARVEL But But Mr. Cooke informs us , that these were pub The LIFE of This great man died, not without ...
... late dear husband , under his own hand writing , both found fince his death , among ? his other papers . Witness my hand , MARY MARVEL But But Mr. Cooke informs us , that these were pub The LIFE of This great man died, not without ...
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... late embezzlements of my dripping- pans and kitchenstuff ; of which , by the way , upon my conscience , neither my lord treasurer , nor my lord Lauderdale , are guilty . I tell you my opinion ; but if you should find them dabling in ...
... late embezzlements of my dripping- pans and kitchenstuff ; of which , by the way , upon my conscience , neither my lord treasurer , nor my lord Lauderdale , are guilty . I tell you my opinion ; but if you should find them dabling in ...
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12 ページ - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
193 ページ - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
236 ページ - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and...
236 ページ - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
116 ページ - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
106 ページ - 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...
105 ページ - Richard, with an air of the utmost importance, to come very early to his house the next morning. Mr. Savage came as he had promised, 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 inquire ; but immediately seated himself with Sir Richard.
161 ページ - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
111 ページ - any, not the remotest relation to public matters, nor correspondence with the persons then predominant, until the year 1657 ; when indeed I entered into an employment, for which I was not altogether improper, and which I considered to be the most innocent and inoffensive towards his majesty's affairs, of any in that usurped and irregular government, to which all men were then exposed.
236 ページ - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.