Chats on Writers and Books, Volumen1C. H. Sergel, 1903 |
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... delight to prepare proved too alluring for continued loyalty to the law and it was not long before he was enrolled at several newspaper offices as a regular and valued contributor . In this way for nearly thirty years Mr. Crawford ...
... delight to prepare proved too alluring for continued loyalty to the law and it was not long before he was enrolled at several newspaper offices as a regular and valued contributor . In this way for nearly thirty years Mr. Crawford ...
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... delightful , reading . Unlike Lamb , also , who , with all his brilliancy , was painfully inaccurate and never quoted anything correctly , Mr. Crawford was correct in all things and in quotation he was precision itself . Accept- ing ...
... delightful , reading . Unlike Lamb , also , who , with all his brilliancy , was painfully inaccurate and never quoted anything correctly , Mr. Crawford was correct in all things and in quotation he was precision itself . Accept- ing ...
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... delighted in it . When it first appeared in 1727 its novelty filled all readers with amazement , and then with merriment , and it was read by the high and the low , the learned and the illiterate . Its satire was understood and its ...
... delighted in it . When it first appeared in 1727 its novelty filled all readers with amazement , and then with merriment , and it was read by the high and the low , the learned and the illiterate . Its satire was understood and its ...
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... writer . They belong to the comedy of manners and are for the study and the arm - chair . They are not for all companies or occasions , but have their own particular charm . The ever - delighted Elia writes : I do not 43 CONGREVE .
... writer . They belong to the comedy of manners and are for the study and the arm - chair . They are not for all companies or occasions , but have their own particular charm . The ever - delighted Elia writes : I do not 43 CONGREVE .
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John N. Crawford. The ever - delighted Elia writes : I do not know how it is with others , but I feel the better always for the perusal of one of Congreve's comedies . I am the gayer , at least , for it ; and I could never connect these ...
John N. Crawford. The ever - delighted Elia writes : I do not know how it is with others , but I feel the better always for the perusal of one of Congreve's comedies . I am the gayer , at least , for it ; and I could never connect these ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 58 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 211 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
Página 59 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 319 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 76 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 254 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Página 178 - 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? 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; 3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 25 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Página 415 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Página 51 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.