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... passed or not , Sterne acted on the opinion ascribed to his friend . Too much of his wit is the phosphoric light emitted by corruption . Amidst the applause which greeted his volumes , an outcry was raised in consequence against the ...
... passed or not , Sterne acted on the opinion ascribed to his friend . Too much of his wit is the phosphoric light emitted by corruption . Amidst the applause which greeted his volumes , an outcry was raised in consequence against the ...
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... passing guest , and even extracted amusement from it while it stayed . His merriment savoured more of epi- curean joviality than of a well - ordered cheerfulness , and its ceaseless flow must have deprived it of half its merit and its ...
... passing guest , and even extracted amusement from it while it stayed . His merriment savoured more of epi- curean joviality than of a well - ordered cheerfulness , and its ceaseless flow must have deprived it of half its merit and its ...
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... for his works . He passed through France to Italy , where he visited all the principal cities , and got back to England in June , 1766. Both his [ Letter Ixxvii . ] 1 " 3 objects were answered . He conceived the plan.
... for his works . He passed through France to Italy , where he visited all the principal cities , and got back to England in June , 1766. Both his [ Letter Ixxvii . ] 1 " 3 objects were answered . He conceived the plan.
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... passed at Coxwold were bestowed in composing the Sentimental Journey . " It is a subject , " he said , " which works well , and suits the frame of mind I have been in for some time past . I told you my design in it was to teach us to ...
... passed at Coxwold were bestowed in composing the Sentimental Journey . " It is a subject , " he said , " which works well , and suits the frame of mind I have been in for some time past . I told you my design in it was to teach us to ...
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... passed there . He had one of these little sticks in his hand , and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap . As I darkened the little light he had , he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door , then ...
... passed there . He had one of these little sticks in his hand , and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap . As I darkened the little light he had , he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door , then ...
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Some XVIII Century Men of Letters: Biographical Essays, Volume 2 Whitwell Elwin Visualização integral - 1902 |
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¹ Boswell's acquaintance admiration afterwards Anecdotes appeared asserted bookseller Boswell Boswell's Johnson Boswell's Letters brother called chap character comedy conversation Covent Garden Coxwold death Essay Eton College exclaimed fame father Fielding Forster's Goldsmith Garrick genius Gray Gray's guineas Hawkins's heard heart honour Horace Walpole humour Ibid Johnsoniana Jones Joseph Andrews Joseph Warton labour lady language learning Lichfield literary Lives London Lord Lord Chesterfield Market Bosworth Mason master Memoirs merit mind Murphy nature never Nichols's Oliver Goldsmith opinion passion person piece Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetry poor portrait pounds poverty praise published Rambler Rasselas remarked replied Reynolds satire says scene sentiments Sterne style Susannah talents talk taste tell thought Thrale tion told Tom Jones Trim Tristram Shandy Uncle Toby vanity verse Vicar of Wakefield Walpole Walpole's Wharton wife words write wrote Yorick
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Página 360 - 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 171 - E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways, Where beasts with man divided empire claim, And the brown Indian marks with murderous aim; There, while above the giddy tempest flies, And all around distressful yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine.
Página 149 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Página 58 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Página 434 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great...
Página 389 - Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.
Página 184 - Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining...
Página 273 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Página 406 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 427 - Alas, I cannot see in the dark; nature has not furnished me with the optics of a cat. Must I pore upon mathematics ? Alas, I cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements of it.