The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, Band 2John Williams, 1826 |
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... favour , or to be more truly sensible of it , than is your most obedient grateful servant . ” Garrick spent the remainder of his life , during the winter at his house in the Adelphi , and during the summer at a neat resi- dence on the ...
... favour , or to be more truly sensible of it , than is your most obedient grateful servant . ” Garrick spent the remainder of his life , during the winter at his house in the Adelphi , and during the summer at a neat resi- dence on the ...
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... favour , he availed himself of some hints to write his Fables for the improvement of the Duke of Cumberland , and as promises of reward for the trouble were held out , again plumed himself with all the exaggerations of an ardent mind ...
... favour , he availed himself of some hints to write his Fables for the improvement of the Duke of Cumberland , and as promises of reward for the trouble were held out , again plumed himself with all the exaggerations of an ardent mind ...
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... favour was the levelling tact with which it laid bare the sins of men in office , but it had gentler charms in the exquisite music which breathed through its scenes . It was the parent of the ballad or comic operas of the English stage ...
... favour was the levelling tact with which it laid bare the sins of men in office , but it had gentler charms in the exquisite music which breathed through its scenes . It was the parent of the ballad or comic operas of the English stage ...
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... favour of sentimental comedies , of which Kelly had just then finished a specimen , entitled ' False Delicacy , ' which was introduced by Garrick on the boards of Drury Lane , and received with a run of patronage which far eclipsed the ...
... favour of sentimental comedies , of which Kelly had just then finished a specimen , entitled ' False Delicacy , ' which was introduced by Garrick on the boards of Drury Lane , and received with a run of patronage which far eclipsed the ...
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... favour with his constituents : for beginning his labours in the great work of Catholic Emancipation , he now proposed to admit the members of that religion to the elective franchise ; and an outcry , the most infamous and astounding ...
... favour with his constituents : for beginning his labours in the great work of Catholic Emancipation , he now proposed to admit the members of that religion to the elective franchise ; and an outcry , the most infamous and astounding ...
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Seite 624 - 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 ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 601 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 624 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Seite 834 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Seite 623 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Seite 668 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Seite 667 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Seite 545 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
Seite 883 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Seite 511 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...