Chats on Writers and Books, Volumen1C. H. Sergel, 1903 |
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... tion with his income . When he achieved polit- ical power he remembered his friends , and it was through his influence that Congreve , Gay , Phillips and Rowe were given remunerative offices . Pope has repeated many times how much Swift ...
... tion with his income . When he achieved polit- ical power he remembered his friends , and it was through his influence that Congreve , Gay , Phillips and Rowe were given remunerative offices . Pope has repeated many times how much Swift ...
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... tion declared that the " Epistles of Phalaris " had more grace , more spirit , more force of wit and genius than any other writings , ancient or modern . Now the truth is that competent scholars had long pronounced these letters to be ...
... tion declared that the " Epistles of Phalaris " had more grace , more spirit , more force of wit and genius than any other writings , ancient or modern . Now the truth is that competent scholars had long pronounced these letters to be ...
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... tion was called to certain passages in " The Tale of a Tub " and she refused to appoint him . Swift's poems are of a piece with his prose works , and have little poetry in them save the rhyme . They are witty , incisive and compact ...
... tion was called to certain passages in " The Tale of a Tub " and she refused to appoint him . Swift's poems are of a piece with his prose works , and have little poetry in them save the rhyme . They are witty , incisive and compact ...
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... tion should be made to Addison in the most courteous manner and as coming from the ministry . On the day following this conversation of the ministers Addison was visited in his garret by no less a person than the English chancellor of ...
... tion should be made to Addison in the most courteous manner and as coming from the ministry . On the day following this conversation of the ministers Addison was visited in his garret by no less a person than the English chancellor of ...
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... tion was of the ore rotundo order , admirably adapted to the stately lines of Cato . It was said of him that " the blind might have seen him in his voice and the deaf have heard him in his visage . " All the leading statesmen of the ...
... tion was of the ore rotundo order , admirably adapted to the stately lines of Cato . It was said of him that " the blind might have seen him in his voice and the deaf have heard him in his visage . " All the leading statesmen of the ...
Términos y frases comunes
actors Addison admired appeared Arbuthnot beauty became Bolingbroke born Boswell Burke Byron called century character Charles Cibber club Coleridge Colley Cibber comedy Congreve conversation Cowper critics death delight died Dunciad England English literature essay Fair Penitent fame famous father forgotten friends Garrick genius George George III Goldsmith Henry Fielding Horace Walpole human humor immortal James Boswell John John Horne Tooke Johnson Keats Lady Mary language letters literary lived London Lord Macaulay married Matthew Prior mind Montague never Nicholas Rowe novel passages person play poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's praise published Queen Anne Queen Anne's men readers Rogers satire says Scott Shakespeare Southey Steele Stella story style success Swift Thackeray thought Thrale tion took Uncle Toby Vathek verse volume Walpole Whigs wife Wilkes William Wordsworth write written wrote young
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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.