The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversF. Newbery, 1777 - 298 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 24
עמוד 16
... Performance , though not perfect , at least worthy of fome Reward , and therefore offered him a Benefit . This Favour he improved with so much in the World , and perhaps lefs often in his Dili 16 THE LIFE OF nefs is very common, and ...
... Performance , though not perfect , at least worthy of fome Reward , and therefore offered him a Benefit . This Favour he improved with so much in the World , and perhaps lefs often in his Dili 16 THE LIFE OF nefs is very common, and ...
עמוד 19
... Performance to her Memory would have only be- trayed an officious Partiality , that , without exalting her Character , would have depreffed his own . He had fometimes , by the Kindness of Mr. Wilks , the Advantage of a Benefit , on ...
... Performance to her Memory would have only be- trayed an officious Partiality , that , without exalting her Character , would have depreffed his own . He had fometimes , by the Kindness of Mr. Wilks , the Advantage of a Benefit , on ...
עמוד 22
... Performance , he was without Lodging , and often without Meat ; nor had he any other Conveniences for Study than the Fields and the Streets allowed him ; there he ufed to walk and form his Speeches , and afterwards ftep into a Shop ...
... Performance , he was without Lodging , and often without Meat ; nor had he any other Conveniences for Study than the Fields and the Streets allowed him ; there he ufed to walk and form his Speeches , and afterwards ftep into a Shop ...
עמוד 25
... Performance he was more successful , for the Rays of Genius that glim- mered in it , that glimmered through all the Mifts which Poverty had been able to spread over it , pro- cured him the Notice and Efteem of many Perfons eminent for ...
... Performance he was more successful , for the Rays of Genius that glim- mered in it , that glimmered through all the Mifts which Poverty had been able to spread over it , pro- cured him the Notice and Efteem of many Perfons eminent for ...
עמוד 32
... Performance any other Advantage than the Increase of his Reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther Views that he prevailed upon himself to attempt a Species of Writing , of which all the Topics had , been long before ...
... Performance any other Advantage than the Increase of his Reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther Views that he prevailed upon himself to attempt a Species of Writing , of which all the Topics had , been long before ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers <span dir=ltr>Samuel Johnson</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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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.