The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversF. Newbery, 1777 - 298 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 41
עמוד 2
... should produce better Effects ; that Minds qualified for great Attainments should first endeavour their own Benefit ; and that they who are most able to teach others the Way to Happiness , fhould with most certainty follow it themselves ...
... should produce better Effects ; that Minds qualified for great Attainments should first endeavour their own Benefit ; and that they who are most able to teach others the Way to Happiness , fhould with most certainty follow it themselves ...
עמוד 8
... should lose it . This was therefore an Act of Wickedness which could not be defeated , because it could not be fufpected ; the Earl did not immagine that there could exift in human Form a Mother that would ruin her Son without enriching ...
... should lose it . This was therefore an Act of Wickedness which could not be defeated , because it could not be fufpected ; the Earl did not immagine that there could exift in human Form a Mother that would ruin her Son without enriching ...
עמוד 21
... should not be more fortunate in exhibiting a Tragedy . The Story which he chofe for the Subject was that of Sir Thomas Overbury , a Story well adapted to the Stage , though perhaps not far enough re- moved from the prefent Age , to ...
... should not be more fortunate in exhibiting a Tragedy . The Story which he chofe for the Subject was that of Sir Thomas Overbury , a Story well adapted to the Stage , though perhaps not far enough re- moved from the prefent Age , to ...
עמוד 36
... should fuffer it , he might never be able to return ; that it was always allowable to prevent an Affault , and to preferve Life by taking away that of the Adverfary , by whom it was endangered .. 2 With regard to the Violence with which ...
... should fuffer it , he might never be able to return ; that it was always allowable to prevent an Affault , and to preferve Life by taking away that of the Adverfary , by whom it was endangered .. 2 With regard to the Violence with which ...
עמוד 52
... should be loft , left a bad Man should be trusted upon the Credit of his Encomiaft , or left others fhould endeavour to obtain the like Praises by the fame Means . But though these Excufes may be often plaufi- ble , and fometimes juft ...
... should be loft , left a bad Man should be trusted upon the Credit of his Encomiaft , or left others fhould endeavour to obtain the like Praises by the fame Means . But though these Excufes may be often plaufi- ble , and fometimes juft ...
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Accufation afferted Affiftance afterwards againſt appeared becauſe Blake Circumftances Coaft Confequence confidered deferve Defign defirous diſcovered Diſtance Drake Dunciad eafily endeavoured Enemies English expoſe faid failed fame Favour fecure feemed feized fent fhall fhew fhort fhould firft firſt Fleet fome fometimes foon Friends Frigate ftill fuch fuffered fufficient fupport Gentleman's Magazine greateſt Harbour higheſt himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe Ifland imagined Increaſe Inftance Infult Intereft laft leaſt lefs likewife Lofs loft Lord Tyrconnel Mifery moft moſt Mother muft muſt neceffary Neceffity never Nombre de Dios Number obferved Occafion Paffage paffed Paffions Penfion Perfon Pinnaces pleafing pleaſed Pleaſure Poem Pounds Weight Praiſe prefent Promife Propofals Provifions publiſhed Purpoſe Queen raiſed Reaſon received Refolution reft retired Savage Savage's ſcarcely ſhe Ships ſome Spaniards ſpent ſtayed Succefs Symerons Ternate thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion Treaſure Tyrconnel uſe utmoſt Veffels Virtue whofe whoſe
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 10 - ... the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father*.
עמוד 53 - ... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by...
עמוד 214 - Nor are such the only opponents of great enterprises : there are some men, of narrow views and grovelling conceptions, who, without the instigation of personal malice, treat every new attempt as wild and chimerical, and look upon every endeavour to depart from the beaten track as the rash effort of a warm imagination, or the glittering speculation of an exalted mind, that may please and dazzle for a time, but can produce no real or lasting advantage.
עמוד 89 - Bastard, he laments in a very affecting manner : ——No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrain'd.
עמוד 20 - During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance he was without lodging, and often without meat; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields or the streets allowed him; there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink, and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident.
עמוד 170 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 69 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger, whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
עמוד 1 - IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station...
עמוד 288 - ... the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief, that they were devils and not men who had destroyed them in such a manner.