The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversF. Newbery, 1777 - 298 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 46
עמוד 12
... once defired by Sir Richard , with an Air of the utmoft Importance , to come very early to his House the next Morning . Mr. Savage * This Play was printed firft in 8vo , and afterwards in 12mo , the fifth Edition . + Plain Dealer . came ...
... once defired by Sir Richard , with an Air of the utmoft Importance , to come very early to his House the next Morning . Mr. Savage * This Play was printed firft in 8vo , and afterwards in 12mo , the fifth Edition . + Plain Dealer . came ...
עמוד 17
... once obtained from his Mother † fifty Pounds , and a Promise of one hundred and fifty more ; but it was the Fate of this unhappy Man that few Promises of any Advantage to him were performed . His Mother was infected , among others ...
... once obtained from his Mother † fifty Pounds , and a Promise of one hundred and fifty more ; but it was the Fate of this unhappy Man that few Promises of any Advantage to him were performed . His Mother was infected , among others ...
עמוד 19
... once told by the Duke of Dorset , that it was just to confider him as an injured Nobleman , and that in his O- pinion the Nobility ought to think themfelves obliged , without Solicitation , to take every Op- portunity of fupporting him ...
... once told by the Duke of Dorset , that it was just to confider him as an injured Nobleman , and that in his O- pinion the Nobility ought to think themfelves obliged , without Solicitation , to take every Op- portunity of fupporting him ...
עמוד 21
... once more at Dramatic Poetry , for which he was now better qualified , by a more extenfive Knowledge , and longer Obfervation . But having been unsuccessful in Comedy , though rather for want of Opportuni- ties than Genius , he refolved ...
... once more at Dramatic Poetry , for which he was now better qualified , by a more extenfive Knowledge , and longer Obfervation . But having been unsuccessful in Comedy , though rather for want of Opportuni- ties than Genius , he refolved ...
עמוד 23
... Scenes around him rife . Thy Touch brings the with'd Stone to pass , So fought , fo long foretold ; It turns polluted Lead and Brais At once to pureit Gold . T fired his Correction . Mr. Hill , whofe Humanity and MR . RICHARD SAVAGE . 23.
... Scenes around him rife . Thy Touch brings the with'd Stone to pass , So fought , fo long foretold ; It turns polluted Lead and Brais At once to pureit Gold . T fired his Correction . Mr. Hill , whofe Humanity and MR . RICHARD SAVAGE . 23.
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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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.