The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, 2권John Williams, 1826 |
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... person to whom he was now confided was the celebrated Samuel Johnson , who proposed to receive a few pupils at Litchfield in 1739 ; but it is perhaps unnecessary to add , that those pupils were so very few , that he conceived a disgust ...
... person to whom he was now confided was the celebrated Samuel Johnson , who proposed to receive a few pupils at Litchfield in 1739 ; but it is perhaps unnecessary to add , that those pupils were so very few , that he conceived a disgust ...
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... persons , but no one seemed willing to risk any thing upon it , though the price demanded was very moderate . At last it was suggested that Garrick , who had by this time acquired an exem- plary character for personal discretion and ...
... persons , but no one seemed willing to risk any thing upon it , though the price demanded was very moderate . At last it was suggested that Garrick , who had by this time acquired an exem- plary character for personal discretion and ...
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... persons under my circumstances to address you in a farewell epilogue . I had the same intention , and turned my thoughts that way ; but , indeed , I felt myself as incapable of writing such an epilogue as I should now 506 GENII OF ST ...
... persons under my circumstances to address you in a farewell epilogue . I had the same intention , and turned my thoughts that way ; but , indeed , I felt myself as incapable of writing such an epilogue as I should now 506 GENII OF ST ...
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... person was low , yet well shaped and neatly pro- portioned , and , having added the qualifications of dancing and fencing to that natural gentility of manner , which no art can be- stow , but with which our great , mother Nature endows ...
... person was low , yet well shaped and neatly pro- portioned , and , having added the qualifications of dancing and fencing to that natural gentility of manner , which no art can be- stow , but with which our great , mother Nature endows ...
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... person , that in the last year of Queen Anne's reign he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Cla- rendon in an embassy to the Court of France . Great hopes were excited in his breast by this preferment ; and , as his temperament was ...
... person , that in the last year of Queen Anne's reign he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Cla- rendon in an embassy to the Court of France . Great hopes were excited in his breast by this preferment ; and , as his temperament was ...
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Admiral amongst appeared appointed army attack battle became born British Captain celebrated character Charles Wager circumstances comedy command conduct death died distinguished Duke Earl eminent enemy engaged English epitaph erected executed fame father favour fell flag fleet force fortune France French friends frigate Garrick genius George guns honour House of Commons inscription Ireland Jamaica John Johnson JONAS HANWAY Joshua Reynolds King labours land lived London Lord Lord Nelson master memory ment merit mind monument nature Nelson never obtained occasion Parliament Paul's peace performance period poem poet political Porto Bello possession Post-captain praise rank Rear-admiral received reputation respect Royal sail Shakspeare Sheridan ships Sir John Moore SIR THOMAS HARDY soon spirit squadron station style success superior talents theatre tion took troops Vernon vessels victory virtues West Indies Westminster Abbey Westminster School William
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624 페이지 - 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.
601 페이지 - ... 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.
624 페이지 - 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.
834 페이지 - 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.
623 페이지 - 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.
668 페이지 - 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.
667 페이지 - 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...
545 페이지 - 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.
883 페이지 - 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...
511 페이지 - 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...