The people's art union. The historic gallery of portraits & paintings, with brief memoirs of the most celebrated men of every age and country. [ed. by H. Mead].1845 |
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... father's trium- phant and successful administration was at its zenith . The education of his early years , and the elements of his know- ledge , were acquired with private tutors , under the immediate eye and cor- rection of his father ...
... father's trium- phant and successful administration was at its zenith . The education of his early years , and the elements of his know- ledge , were acquired with private tutors , under the immediate eye and cor- rection of his father ...
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... father revived , and acting , as it were , in him . His first speech was in favour of Mr. Burke's Bill ; and one of the first acts in which he took the lead in that house , was extremely well calculated to increase his popularity . This ...
... father revived , and acting , as it were , in him . His first speech was in favour of Mr. Burke's Bill ; and one of the first acts in which he took the lead in that house , was extremely well calculated to increase his popularity . This ...
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... father . It was this foible in his character , which at times gave his adversaries advantage over him . As to himself , he wholly disregarded a partial failure ; it was part of his system to expect such failures , and deeming them ...
... father . It was this foible in his character , which at times gave his adversaries advantage over him . As to himself , he wholly disregarded a partial failure ; it was part of his system to expect such failures , and deeming them ...
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... father who him- self frequently entered into disputations with him , and encouraged him to converse with others upon subjects far above what could be expected from his years . In the mauagement of these arguments his father would never ...
... father who him- self frequently entered into disputations with him , and encouraged him to converse with others upon subjects far above what could be expected from his years . In the mauagement of these arguments his father would never ...
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... father , and a few years after on the death of his mother , was so comparatively trifling , as scarcely to be worth reckoning in such an account . His debts , therefore , on his retirement from office , were considerable , and the ...
... father , and a few years after on the death of his mother , was so comparatively trifling , as scarcely to be worth reckoning in such an account . His debts , therefore , on his retirement from office , were considerable , and the ...
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Página 165 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Página 136 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand : and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews ! 30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Página 63 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Página 166 - 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.
Página 166 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Página 34 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Página 146 - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them.
Página 76 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow.
Página 146 - His works abound with knowledge, and sparkle with illustrations. There is scarcely any science or faculty that does not supply him with occasional images and lucky similitudes; every page discovers a mind very widely acquainted both with art and nature, and in full possession of great stores of intellectual wealth.
Página 34 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.