The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversF. Newbery, 1777 - 298 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 16
עמוד 12
... admitted to his Acquaint- ance only , but to his Confidence , of which he fometimes related an Inftance too extraordinary to be omitted , as it affords a very just Idea of his Patron's Character . He was once defired by Sir Richard ...
... admitted to his Acquaint- ance only , but to his Confidence , of which he fometimes related an Inftance too extraordinary to be omitted , as it affords a very just Idea of his Patron's Character . He was once defired by Sir Richard ...
עמוד 15
... admitted him to his House . It is not indeed unlikely that Savage might , by his Imprudence , expofe himself to the Malice of a Tale - bearer ; for his Patron had many Fol- lies , which , as his Difcernment easily discovered , his ...
... admitted him to his House . It is not indeed unlikely that Savage might , by his Imprudence , expofe himself to the Malice of a Tale - bearer ; for his Patron had many Fol- lies , which , as his Difcernment easily discovered , his ...
עמוד 24
... admitted to play the Part of Sir Thomas Overbury , by which he gained no great Reputa- tion , the Theatre being a Province for which Nature feemed not to have defigned him ; for neither his Voice , Look , nor Gesture , were fuch as are ...
... admitted to play the Part of Sir Thomas Overbury , by which he gained no great Reputa- tion , the Theatre being a Province for which Nature feemed not to have defigned him ; for neither his Voice , Look , nor Gesture , were fuch as are ...
עמוד 40
... Admission into her House . One Evening walking , as it was his Custom , in the Street that the inhabited , he faw the Door of her Houfe by Accident open ; he entered it , and finding nobody in the Paffage to hin- der him , went up ...
... Admission into her House . One Evening walking , as it was his Custom , in the Street that the inhabited , he faw the Door of her Houfe by Accident open ; he entered it , and finding nobody in the Paffage to hin- der him , went up ...
עמוד 42
... admitted to Bail , and on the 9th of March , 1728 , pleaded the King's Pardon . It is natural to enquire upon what Motives his Mother could profecute him in a Manner fo out- rageous and implacable ; for what Reafon fhe could employ all ...
... admitted to Bail , and on the 9th of March , 1728 , pleaded the King's Pardon . It is natural to enquire upon what Motives his Mother could profecute him in a Manner fo out- rageous and implacable ; for what Reafon fhe could employ all ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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.