Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... Observe , accordingly , to what extent , in the actual course of things , this business of Biography is practised and relished , Define to thyself , judicious Reader , the real significance of these phe- nomena , named Gossip , Egoism ...
... Observe , accordingly , to what extent , in the actual course of things , this business of Biography is practised and relished , Define to thyself , judicious Reader , the real significance of these phe- nomena , named Gossip , Egoism ...
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... observe , though there is a greatest Fool , as a superlative in every kind ; and the most Foolish man in the Earth is now indubitably living and breathing , and did this morning or lately eat breakfast , and is even now digesting the ...
... observe , though there is a greatest Fool , as a superlative in every kind ; and the most Foolish man in the Earth is now indubitably living and breathing , and did this morning or lately eat breakfast , and is even now digesting the ...
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... observations on the great import of REALITY , considered even as a poetic material , we have inserted the more willingly , because a transient feeling to the same purpose may often have suggested itself to many readers ; and , on the ...
... observations on the great import of REALITY , considered even as a poetic material , we have inserted the more willingly , because a transient feeling to the same purpose may often have suggested itself to many readers ; and , on the ...
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... observed . Howbeit I must not omit to tell , that some years afterwards , Sir John Ayres , returning from Ireland by Beaumaris , where I then was , some of my servants and followers broke open the doors of the house where he was , and ...
... observed . Howbeit I must not omit to tell , that some years afterwards , Sir John Ayres , returning from Ireland by Beaumaris , where I then was , some of my servants and followers broke open the doors of the house where he was , and ...
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... observe only this : That when we are conscious of the least comparative Merit in ourselves , we shou'd take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it , as if it were a real Defect : To be elated or vain upon it is shewing your ...
... observe only this : That when we are conscious of the least comparative Merit in ourselves , we shou'd take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it , as if it were a real Defect : To be elated or vain upon it is shewing your ...
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Página 595 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 65 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 72 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 437 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 55 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 225 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 355 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 307 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 204 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 476 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.