Temple Bar, כרך 55

כריכה קדמית
George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates
Ward and Lock, 1879

מתוך הספר

מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

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קטעים בולטים

עמוד 401 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
עמוד 198 - Oh, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it I would burn my Travels, but however he is not without fault.
עמוד 10 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
עמוד 192 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
עמוד 37 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
עמוד 41 - One from all Grubstreet will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my Letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, "Subscribe, subscribe.
עמוד 36 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should...
עמוד 45 - Pratt says, he has received such marks of your sincerity and friendship, as he never can forget; and, in short, if you will come over again, when you are at leisure, we will raise an army, and make you King of Ireland. Can you think so meanly of a kingdom, as not to be pleased that every creature in it, who hath one grain of worth, has a veneration for you?
עמוד 41 - Not proud, nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That, if he pleased, he pleased by manly ways : That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse or prose the same...
עמוד 38 - Then you discover the brightness of his mind and the strength of his judgment, accompanied with the most graceful mirth. In a word, by this enlivening aid, he is whatever is polite, instructive, and diverting. What makes him still more agreeable is, that he tells a story, serious or comical, with as much delicacy of humour as Cervantes himself.

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