The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversF. Newbery, 1777 - 298 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 42
עמוד
Samuel Johnson. ii PREFACE . It is univerfally allowed , that no Species of Writing is more pleafing than Biogra- phy , and nobody ever read the Lives that have been written by this Author without regretting that he did not write more ...
Samuel Johnson. ii PREFACE . It is univerfally allowed , that no Species of Writing is more pleafing than Biogra- phy , and nobody ever read the Lives that have been written by this Author without regretting that he did not write more ...
עמוד 11
... Writing + , and , in his eighteenth Year , offered to the Stage a Comedy borrowed from a Spanish Plot , which was refufed by the Players , and was therefore given by him to Mr. Bullock , who hav- ing more Intereft , made fome flight ...
... Writing + , and , in his eighteenth Year , offered to the Stage a Comedy borrowed from a Spanish Plot , which was refufed by the Players , and was therefore given by him to Mr. Bullock , who hav- ing more Intereft , made fome flight ...
עמוד 13
... write for him . They foon fat down to the Work , Sir Richard dictated , and Savage wrote , till the Dinner that had been ordered was put upon the Table . Savage was furprised at the Meannefs of the Entertainment , and , after fome ...
... write for him . They foon fat down to the Work , Sir Richard dictated , and Savage wrote , till the Dinner that had been ordered was put upon the Table . Savage was furprised at the Meannefs of the Entertainment , and , after fome ...
עמוד 17
... now one of the chief Phyficians at the Ruf- fan Court . This I write upon , the Credit of the Author of his . Life , which was published in 1727 . having been difappointed in her Expectations , refufed to pay MR . RICHARD SAVAGE . 17.
... now one of the chief Phyficians at the Ruf- fan Court . This I write upon , the Credit of the Author of his . Life , which was published in 1727 . having been difappointed in her Expectations , refufed to pay MR . RICHARD SAVAGE . 17.
עמוד 22
... write down what he had compofed upon Paper which he had picked up by Accident , If the Performance of a Writer thus diftreffed is not perfect , its Faults ought furely to be imputed to a Cause very different from Want of Genius , and ...
... write down what he had compofed upon Paper which he had picked up by Accident , If the Performance of a Writer thus diftreffed is not perfect , its Faults ought furely to be imputed to a Cause very different from Want of Genius , and ...
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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.