The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversF. Newbery, 1777 - 298 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 31
עמוד 6
... endeavoured to alleviate his Lofs by a Legacy of three hundred Pounds , yet as he had none to profecute his Claim , to fhelter him from Oppreffion , or call in Law to the Affiftance of Justice , her Will was eluded by the Executors ...
... endeavoured to alleviate his Lofs by a Legacy of three hundred Pounds , yet as he had none to profecute his Claim , to fhelter him from Oppreffion , or call in Law to the Affiftance of Justice , her Will was eluded by the Executors ...
עמוד 8
... endeavoured to rid herself from the Danger of being at any Time made known to him , " by fending him fecretly to the American Plantations . * By whole Kindness this Scheme was counter- acted , or by what Interpofition fhe was induced to ...
... endeavoured to rid herself from the Danger of being at any Time made known to him , " by fending him fecretly to the American Plantations . * By whole Kindness this Scheme was counter- acted , or by what Interpofition fhe was induced to ...
עמוד 11
... endeavoured to fupprefs it , by deftroying all the Copies that he . Could Collect . He then attempted a more gainful Kind of Writing + , and , in his eighteenth Year , offered to the Stage a Comedy borrowed from a Spanish Plot , which ...
... endeavoured to fupprefs it , by deftroying all the Copies that he . Could Collect . He then attempted a more gainful Kind of Writing + , and , in his eighteenth Year , offered to the Stage a Comedy borrowed from a Spanish Plot , which ...
עמוד 18
... endeavoured to fhew his Gra- titude in the moft decent Manner , by wearing . Mourning as for a Mother , but did not celebrate : her in Elegies , because he knew that too great Profufion of Praise would only have revived thofe Faults ...
... endeavoured to fhew his Gra- titude in the moft decent Manner , by wearing . Mourning as for a Mother , but did not celebrate : her in Elegies , because he knew that too great Profufion of Praise would only have revived thofe Faults ...
עמוד 20
... endeavoured to diffuse among all those over whom Nature or Fortune gave her any Influence , and in- deed fucceeded too well in her Defign , but could not always propagate her Effrontery with her Cruelty ; for fome of those whom the ...
... endeavoured to diffuse among all those over whom Nature or Fortune gave her any Influence , and in- deed fucceeded too well in her Defign , but could not always propagate her Effrontery with her Cruelty ; for fome of those whom the ...
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
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.