English lands, leters and kings; Queen Anne and the GeorgesC. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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18. oldal
... counted worth knowing . He made a vain run for Parliament , and ended by taking church orders somewhat late in life - staying one of his plays , 1 which was just then in re- hearsal , as inconsistent with his new duties . ' Only staying ...
... counted worth knowing . He made a vain run for Parliament , and ended by taking church orders somewhat late in life - staying one of his plays , 1 which was just then in re- hearsal , as inconsistent with his new duties . ' Only staying ...
63. oldal
... counted a great classic ( though Dr. Johnson affirmed it ) ; not because I advise your wading through six or seven volumes of the darling Sir Charles Grandison - as some of our gran- dames did ; but because he was , in a sense , the ...
... counted a great classic ( though Dr. Johnson affirmed it ) ; not because I advise your wading through six or seven volumes of the darling Sir Charles Grandison - as some of our gran- dames did ; but because he was , in a sense , the ...
77. oldal
... counted an ele- gant gentleman who only played with letters . He writes to his friend that the proprietors of a magazine were about to print his Elegy , and says : - " I have but one bad way to escape the honor they would inflict upon ...
... counted an ele- gant gentleman who only played with letters . He writes to his friend that the proprietors of a magazine were about to print his Elegy , and says : - " I have but one bad way to escape the honor they would inflict upon ...
98. oldal
... counted the presence under his roof of a certain old lady , Miss Williams , who is peevish , who is tempestuous , who is blind , who tests the tea with her fingers , who will talk , and then again , she won't talk ; yet Johnson ...
... counted the presence under his roof of a certain old lady , Miss Williams , who is peevish , who is tempestuous , who is blind , who tests the tea with her fingers , who will talk , and then again , she won't talk ; yet Johnson ...
121. oldal
... counted had been full of change and adventure : he had wandered away early from the beautiful pater- nal home of Lissoy in Ireland ; had studied in Scotland and in Leyden ; had idled in both ; had been vagrant over Europe ; had tried ...
... counted had been full of change and adventure : he had wandered away early from the beautiful pater- nal home of Lissoy in Ireland ; had studied in Scotland and in Leyden ; had idled in both ; had been vagrant over Europe ; had tried ...
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90. oldal - 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.
13. oldal - We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise, And Earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.
35. oldal - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
306. oldal - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
241. oldal - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
76. oldal - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
120. oldal - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
72. oldal - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
12. oldal - Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied.
96. oldal - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.