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... merit , which was the only burthen and reproach he ever brought upon his friends . He could say , as Horace did of himself , what I never yet saw translated : " Meo sum pauper in ære . " At his coming to town , no man was more surround ...
... merit , which was the only burthen and reproach he ever brought upon his friends . He could say , as Horace did of himself , what I never yet saw translated : " Meo sum pauper in ære . " At his coming to town , no man was more surround ...
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... merit ; and of that he had exhibited sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been but two years in the ...
... merit ; and of that he had exhibited sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been but two years in the ...
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... merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success , and found that native excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who ad- vanced the price from ...
... merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success , and found that native excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who ad- vanced the price from ...
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... merit , and was something contemptuous in his treatment of those whom he considered as not qualified to oppose or con . tradict him . He had many frailties ; yet it cannot but be supposed that he had great merit who could obtain to the ...
... merit , and was something contemptuous in his treatment of those whom he considered as not qualified to oppose or con . tradict him . He had many frailties ; yet it cannot but be supposed that he had great merit who could obtain to the ...
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... merit is the claim to attention : and the account which is here to be expected may properly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verse . Charles Montague was born April 16 , 1661 , at ...
... merit is the claim to attention : and the account which is here to be expected may properly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verse . Charles Montague was born April 16 , 1661 , at ...
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Page 130 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 27 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles : he grew first regular, and then...
Page 176 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable: whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Page 105 - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Page 27 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find.
Page 180 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 129 - outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination.
Page 127 - That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured.
Page 83 - The irregularities in sir Roger's conduct seem not so much the effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life, by the perpetual pressure of some overwhelming idea, as of habitual rusticity, and that negligence which solitary grandeur naturally generates. The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his...
Page 103 - It is said that when Addison had suffered any vexation from the countess, he withdrew the company from Button's house. From the coffee-house he went again to a tavern, where he often sat late, and drank too much wine.