Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's LivesH. G. Bohn, 1846 - 419 |
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... University , brought him a pre- sent of gingerbread , in token of his being the best scholar her academy had ever produced . His next in- structor in his own language was a man whom he used to call Tom Browne ; and who , he said ...
... University , brought him a pre- sent of gingerbread , in token of his being the best scholar her academy had ever produced . His next in- structor in his own language was a man whom he used to call Tom Browne ; and who , he said ...
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... University ; and , accompanying him thither , placed him , on the 31st of October , 1728 , a commoner at Pembroke College , Oxford . Some assistance was , indeed , promised him from other quarters , but this assistance was never given ...
... University ; and , accompanying him thither , placed him , on the 31st of October , 1728 , a commoner at Pembroke College , Oxford . Some assistance was , indeed , promised him from other quarters , but this assistance was never given ...
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... University ; and , at the end of three years , increasing debts , together with the failure of remittances , occasioned by his father's insolvency , forced him to leave it without a degree . Of Pembroke College , in his Life of Shen ...
... University ; and , at the end of three years , increasing debts , together with the failure of remittances , occasioned by his father's insolvency , forced him to leave it without a degree . Of Pembroke College , in his Life of Shen ...
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... University of Cam- bridge , and the master of an academy , " as a very good scholar , and one who he had great hopes would turn out a fine dramatic writer , who intended to try his fate with a tragedy , and to get himself employed in ...
... University of Cam- bridge , and the master of an academy , " as a very good scholar , and one who he had great hopes would turn out a fine dramatic writer , who intended to try his fate with a tragedy , and to get himself employed in ...
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... University the degree of Master of Arts , that he might be enabled to become a candidate for the mastership of a school then vacant ; the application was without success . His own wants , however pressing , did not hinder him from ...
... University the degree of Master of Arts , that he might be enabled to become a candidate for the mastership of a school then vacant ; the application was without success . His own wants , however pressing , did not hinder him from ...
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Strona 282 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Strona 36 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Strona 61 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Strona 52 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Strona 313 - O Nature, how in every charm supreme ! Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ! O for the voice and fire of seraphim, To sing thy glories with devotion due ! Blest be the day I 'scaped the wrangling crew, From Pyrrho's maze, and Epicurus...
Strona 213 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Strona 242 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Strona 10 - He, and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for London together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy-writer. If it should any way lie in your way, doubt* not but you would be ready to recommend and assist your countryman....
Strona 216 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
Strona 221 - Woods ! that listen to the night-birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where, like a man beloved...