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... nature , England in his time contained little sense and no virtue , except what was distributed between himself , Lord Waldgrave , and Marshal Conway . Of such a writer it is scarcely necessary to say , that his works are destitute of ...
... nature , England in his time contained little sense and no virtue , except what was distributed between himself , Lord Waldgrave , and Marshal Conway . Of such a writer it is scarcely necessary to say , that his works are destitute of ...
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... natural ingenuity had been improved into morbid quickness by constant exercise . We are never sure that we see him as ... nature . In wit and animation the present collection is not superior to those which have preceded it . But it has ...
... natural ingenuity had been improved into morbid quickness by constant exercise . We are never sure that we see him as ... nature . In wit and animation the present collection is not superior to those which have preceded it . But it has ...
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... nature in other men . He was familiar with the malice of kind people , and the perfidy of honourable people . Proud men had licked the dust before him . Patriots had begged him to come up to the price of their puffed and advertised ...
... nature in other men . He was familiar with the malice of kind people , and the perfidy of honourable people . Proud men had licked the dust before him . Patriots had begged him to come up to the price of their puffed and advertised ...
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... nature had done for him . Whatever was absurd about him stood out with grotesque prominence from the rest of the character . He was a living , moving , talking , caricature . His gait was a shuffling trot ; his utterance a rapid stutter ...
... nature had done for him . Whatever was absurd about him stood out with grotesque prominence from the rest of the character . He was a living , moving , talking , caricature . His gait was a shuffling trot ; his utterance a rapid stutter ...
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... nature , an intense and glowing mind . " In an age of low and dirty prostitution , in the age of Doding- ton and Sandys , it was something to have a man who might perhaps , under some strong excitement , have been tempted to ruin his ...
... nature , an intense and glowing mind . " In an age of low and dirty prostitution , in the age of Doding- ton and Sandys , it was something to have a man who might perhaps , under some strong excitement , have been tempted to ruin his ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 242 - Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity...
Page 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 630 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music,...
Page 629 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 316 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 630 - ... too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings of Mrs.
Page 628 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...