Junius with his vizor up! Or the real author of the letters ... unveiled ... in 2 letters, from Œdipus Oronoko1819 |
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Seite 31 - To these parties," relates Mr. Pennington, " it was not difficult for any person of character to be introduced. There was no ceremony, no cards; and no supper. Even dress was so little regarded, that a foreign gentleman, who was to go there with an acquaintance, was told in jest, that it was so little necessary, that he might appear there, if he pleased, in blue stockings. This he understood in the literal sense; and when he spoke of it in French called it the Bos Bleu Meeting. And this was the origin...
Seite 13 - Vain wish ! those days were never : airy dreams Sat for the picture : and the poet's hand, Imparting substance to an empty shade, Imposed a gay delirium for a truth. Grant it : I still must envy them an age That favour'd such a dream...
Seite 35 - And in the visions of romantic youth, What years of endless bliss are yet to flow ? But, mortal pleasure, what art thou in truth ? The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below ! And must I change my song?
Seite 17 - Yes, Sir! I am that gentleman ; and if you will do me the favour of sitting to me for yours, I will take it so faithfully, that even you yourself shall shudder at it!
Seite 11 - GRATTAX. -N *ince the immortal cors et cHe after Mr. Alderman Whittington's cat, there has been no hunt that has required or produced keener sportsmen. During the period in which the Letters were in a course of publication, it is scarcely in the power of language to convey an adequate conception of the intense and eager curiosity that was felt and cherished in regard to the Author of them. Sir William Draper, more especially, stung to the quick, and writhing with mental anguish, occasioned, not so...
Seite 23 - ... Sunday, Bro't her home on Monday, Hired a house on Tuesday, Fed her well on Wednesday, Sick was she on Thursday, Dead was she on Friday, Sad was Tom on Saturday, To bury his wife on Sunday. I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, and there I bid him drum ; I bought a little handkerchief to wipe his little nose, And a pair of little garters to tie his little hose. As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats,...
Seite 14 - He still went on adding grossness to grossncss, and scurrility to scurrility. I then went round to the chair in which he was sitting, and desired him to feel the muscles of my right arm. He felt them. I then drew up my leg, and desired him to feel and discover if he could, whether that had any muscular energy. He did so. "Now, Sir," said I, " you find that I can both strike and kick; and if you don't hold your tongue, I will first knock you down, and afterwards kick you out of my house.
Seite iv - I ever knew." b In these words, doth the erudite and eloquent Doctor most amusingly paraphrase and aggrandize what ordinary persons would have called, in an ordinary way, errors of the press. See Pref. to Phil. Varv. pag. x. c " He [Doctor Parr] sometimes wished that it had been his own lot to aspire to the calligraphy of the Antiquarii, &c.
Seite 13 - I teazed him a little by my rapier in reply — but kept myself quite cool in temper, and steadily on my guard. He still went on adding grossness to grossness, and scurrility to scurrility. I then went round to the chair in which he was sitting, and desired him to feel the muscles of my right arm. He felt them. 1 then drew up my leg, and desired him to feel and discover, if he could, whether that had any muscular energy. He did so.
Seite 16 - See Dr. Butler's Letter to Mr. Blomfield, p. 55. Above all, it should be shewn that their vices have no sort of necessary connection with their merits ; and that they are the diseased excrescences and not the genuine and healthy fruit of the tree. For want of this moral discernment, many a scatterbrained nincompoop, " blazing out his youth and his health [as Johnson says of Rochester] in lavish voluptuousness...