The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews ; The Second Funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 - 418페이지 |
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acquainted Addison admirable artist asked beautiful Beggar's Opera Belle Poule Bolingbroke called Captain character charming coffin Congreve court Cruikshank Dean dear death delightful Dick dinner Dunciad English eyes face famous fancy father French genius gentleman George Cruikshank give Goldsmith grace hand happy head heart hero Hogarth honest honor humor Jack Sheppard John Gay Johnson Joseph Addison kind King lady laugh letters lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke manner married MATTHEW PRIOR moral Napoleon nature never night passed person Peter Schlemihl picture pleasure poet poor Pope Pope's portrait pretty Prince de Joinville round satire smiling speak Spence's Anecdotes Steele Stella Sterne Street Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thought told Tom and Jerry Tom Jones verses whilst wife woman write wrote young
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123 페이지 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents...
255 페이지 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
124 페이지 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
76 페이지 - So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 20 Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
30 페이지 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
229 페이지 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300 ; a considerable proportion of which remained with my clerk...
61 페이지 - See ! see, she wakes — Sabina wakes ! And now the sun begins to rise ? Less glorious is the morn, that breaks • From his bright beams, than her fair eyes. With light united, day they give ; But different fates ere night fulfil : How many by his warmth will live ! How many will her coldness kill...
267 페이지 - Sweet AUBURN ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here, as I take my solitary rounds...
85 페이지 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
23 페이지 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.