The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone ..., כרך 3J.Dodsley, 1791 |
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עמוד 73 - London is really dangerous at this time ; the pickpockets, formerly content with mere filching, make no scruple to knock people down with bludgeons in Fleet Street and the Strand, and that at no later hour than eight o'clock at night ; but in the Piazzas, Covent Garden, they come in large bodies, armed with couteaus...
עמוד 146 - Poor Mr. Thomson, Mr. Pitt tells me, is dead. He was to have been at Hagley this week, and then I should probably have seen him here. As it is I will erect an urn in Virgil's Grove to his memory. I was really as much shocked to hear of his death, as if I had known and loved him for a number of years. God knows I lean on a very few friends, and if they drop me, I become a wretched misanthrope.
עמוד 171 - Twas thus, if man with woman we compare, The wise Athenian cross'da glittering fair. Unmov'd by tongues and sights, he walk'd the place, Through tape, toys, tinsel, gimp, perfume, and lace ; Then bends from Mars's hill his awful eyes, And — ' What a world I never want ! ' he cries ; But cries unheard ; for Folly will be free.
עמוד 39 - I am angry, and envious, and dejected, and frantic, and disregard all present things, just as becomes a madman to do. I am infinitely pleased (though it is a gloomy joy) with the application of Dr. Swift's complaint, "that he is forced to die in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
עמוד 234 - s conduct in regard to my letters to his brother ; and, rather than they should have been so unnecessarily destroyed, would have given more money than it is allowable for me to mention with decency. I look upon my letters as some of my...
עמוד 130 - But afk the lovely partial maid, What are his notes compar'd to thine ? Then bid her treat yon witlefs beau, And all his flaunting race with fcorn ; And lend an ear to DAMON'S woe, ' Who fings her praife, and fings forlorn.
עמוד 48 - ... wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.
עמוד 277 - Spence ; extremely polite, friendly, chearful, and mafter of an infinite fund of fubjefts for agreeable converfation. Had my affairs permitted me, they had certainly drawn me with them into Scotland ; whither they are gone, for about a month, upon a journey of curiofity. I BELIEVE it will give you pleafure to hear that my law-fuit with D — is accommodated, by the generous interpofition of my Lord Stamford ; concerning whofe benevolence and magnanimity it is impofiible for me to fpeak in the terms...
עמוד 13 - ... by me in the boxes. This learned sage, being asked how he liked the play, made answer, "He could not tell — pretty well, he thought — or indeed as well as any other play — he always took it, that people only came there to see and to be seen — for as for what was said, he owned, he never understood any thing of the matter.
עמוד 141 - I can see the road too that leads the better way, and can shew it others; but I have many miles to measure back before I can get into it myself, and no kind of resolution to take a single step. My chief amusements at present are the same they have long been, and lie scattered about my farm. The French have what they call a parque ornee; I suppose, approaching about as near to a garden as the park at Hagley. I give my place the title of a ferme ornee; though, if I had money, I should hardly confine...