A Poem to the Memory of William Congreve, Band 9,Ausgabe 2

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Percy society, 1843 - 32 Seiten
 

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Seite 30 - SIR, — I must desire you to be one of the six next Sunday upon this very melancholy occasion. I always used to think you had a respect for him, and I would not have any there that had not.
Seite xii - Thomson, once told me, he heard a lady remarking that she could gather from his works three parts of his character, that he was " a great lover, a great swimmer, and rigorously abstinent;'' but, said Savage, be- knows not any love but that of the sex ; he was, perhaps, never in cold water in his life ; and he indulges himself in all the luxury that comes within his reach.
Seite 31 - SIR, — The last letter I writ to you was upon always having thought that you had a respect, and a kind one, for Mr. Congreve. I dare say you believe I could sooner think of doing the most monstrous thing in the world than sending anything that was his, where I was not persuaded it would be valued. The number of them I think so of, are a mighty few indeed ; therefore I must always be in a particular manner. " Yours, &c. MARLBOROUGH."* The word " him" in the first of these epistles, without any...
Seite 30 - ... accumulation of attentive parsimony, which, though to her superfluous and useless, might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended, at that time by the imprudence of his relation reduced to difficulties and distress.
Seite 31 - Mr. William Congreve died Jan. the 19th, 1728, aged fiftysix, and was buried near this place ; to whose most valuable memory, this monument is set up by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, as a mark how dearly she remembers the happiness and honour she enjoyed in the sincere friendship of so worthy and honest a man, whose virtue, candour, and wit, gained him the love and esteem of the present age, and whose writings will be the admiration of the future.
Seite iii - PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. FSA T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. FSA, M.RI.A. PETER CUNNINGHAM, ESQ. REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. WILLIAM JERDAN, ESQ. FSA, MRSL SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, KH, FRS, FSA TJ PETTIGREW, ESQ. FR S., FSA EF RIMBAULT, ESQ. FSA Secretary. WILLIAM J. THOMS, ESQ. FSA JAMES WALSH, ESQ. FSA THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. MA, FSA INTRODUCTION. THE "Satyresand Satyricall Epigrams...
Seite xvii - Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
Seite iii - COUNCIL President. THE RT. Hon. LORD BRAYBROOKE, FSA THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ. FRS TREAS.
Seite xvii - To raise the sacred hour, to bid it smile, And with the social spirit warm the heart : For though not sweeter his own Homer sings, Yet is his life the more endearing song.

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