Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, 7. kötetauthor, 1848 |
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xvii. oldal
... House of Percy , " with his reason ; proposes to go to St. Vincent ; the " Sugar Cane ; " presents promised ; Mr. Percy's " Ballads " 288 SAME . Sept. " Reliques of Ancient Poetry ; " private affairs ; the " Sugar Cane , " how received ...
... House of Percy , " with his reason ; proposes to go to St. Vincent ; the " Sugar Cane ; " presents promised ; Mr. Percy's " Ballads " 288 SAME . Sept. " Reliques of Ancient Poetry ; " private affairs ; the " Sugar Cane , " how received ...
xix. oldal
... house at Shepreth , Cambridgeshire . ASHBY to GENT . MAG . Nov. 1774. - On a passage in Hamlet ( see note ) ; " Unaneled , " & c . • SAME . March 1 , 1776. - On the same subject SAME . March . On celebrated large diamonds · 395 396 397 ...
... house at Shepreth , Cambridgeshire . ASHBY to GENT . MAG . Nov. 1774. - On a passage in Hamlet ( see note ) ; " Unaneled , " & c . • SAME . March 1 , 1776. - On the same subject SAME . March . On celebrated large diamonds · 395 396 397 ...
1. oldal
... house at the beginning of Septem- ber , and only returned to it just before Christmas , your letter did not reach my hands till some months later than it was written . Since I came home , two deaths in my family have furnished me with a ...
... house at the beginning of Septem- ber , and only returned to it just before Christmas , your letter did not reach my hands till some months later than it was written . Since I came home , two deaths in my family have furnished me with a ...
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... house has been on fire , to throw a featherbed out of the window , that he himself may fall soft upon it . I have told my story vilely ; for I ought previously to have said , that ( according to your friend Mr. Ritson's ac- count of Mr ...
... house has been on fire , to throw a featherbed out of the window , that he himself may fall soft upon it . I have told my story vilely ; for I ought previously to have said , that ( according to your friend Mr. Ritson's ac- count of Mr ...
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... house - lamb as my contribution to his entertainment . Your Lordship happily resides in a cheaper country than ours . A tenant of mine in Essex is obliged , by lease , to furnish me every year with a few lambs at a settled price . When ...
... house - lamb as my contribution to his entertainment . Your Lordship happily resides in a cheaper country than ours . A tenant of mine in Essex is obliged , by lease , to furnish me every year with a few lambs at a settled price . When ...
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acknowledgments acquaintance affectionate ANDERSON Anna Seward appear Ballads Belfast believe Binnel Bishop of Dromore Bishop Percy bookseller Boswell Boswell's character compliments copy DEAR LORD DEAR PERCY DEAR SIR death desire died Dromore House Dublin Edinburgh edition elegant Elegy English Epistles faithful favour genius Gent gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith Grainger Heriot's Green honour hope humble servant inclosed Ireland JAMES BOSWELL JAMES GRAINGER Johnson Kildress kind Lady lately Ledwich letter Literary Anecdotes London Lordship LORT Lucy Porter Lycophron MEEN memoir mentioned Miss Seward never Northamptonshire obedient servant opinion Ovid packet pamphlet pleasure poems poet poetical poetry prayers present printed published received Reliques respect Saville Row Scotland sent Shenstone sincerely soon stanza Steevens Sugar Cane thanks Tibullus tion translation verses volume wish write written young
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358. oldal - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
755. oldal - Specimens of the Early English Poets, to which is prefixed An Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language.
561. oldal - ... to prostitute his muse to so many unworthy functions. But nothing in Chatterton can be separated from Chatterton. His noblest flights, his sweetest strains, his grossest ribaldry, and his most common-place imitations of the productions of magazines, were all the effervescences of the same ungovernable impulse, which, cameleon-like, imbibed the colours of all it looked on. It was Ossian, or a Saxon monk, or Gray, or Smollet, or Junius — and if it failed most in what it most affected to be, a...
354. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
362. oldal - You are at liberty to make what use you please of this letter. 'My best wishes ever attend you and your family. Believe me to be, with the utmost regard and esteem, dear Sir, 'Your obliged and affectionate humble servant, J. BEATTIE.
334. oldal - ... invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsic and casual circumstances.
761. oldal - What! Sir, don't you call it Disturbance to oppose legal government with arms in your hands, and compel it to make laws in your favour ? Sir, I call it rebellion, as much as the rebellions in Scotland. Doctor, said I, I am exceedingly sorry...
307. oldal - I have heard from some of his contemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate, with a circle of young students round him, whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.
648. oldal - And, I have also this truth to say of the author, that he was in his time a man generally known, and as well beloved; for he was humble, and obliging in his behaviour, a gentleman, a scholar, very innocent and prudent: and indeed his whole life was useful, quiet, and virtuous. God send the Story may meet with, or make all readers like him.
347. oldal - Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain ; In...