Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
מתוך הספר
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עמוד 6
... never rife out of the plainest and fimpleft poetry ; thus Spenfer begins one of his pastorals , Diggon Davie , I bid her good day : Or Diggon her is , or I miffay . Dig . Her was her while it was day light , But now her is a moft ...
... never rife out of the plainest and fimpleft poetry ; thus Spenfer begins one of his pastorals , Diggon Davie , I bid her good day : Or Diggon her is , or I miffay . Dig . Her was her while it was day light , But now her is a moft ...
עמוד 12
... never pleafe a reader of tafte , who expects fomething even in paftorals , befides a barbarous rufticity . One more inftance of this woful fimplicity , I must quote from Gay's paftorals : Ah woful day ! ah woful noon and morn ! When ...
... never pleafe a reader of tafte , who expects fomething even in paftorals , befides a barbarous rufticity . One more inftance of this woful fimplicity , I must quote from Gay's paftorals : Ah woful day ! ah woful noon and morn ! When ...
עמוד 15
... never performed any confiderable work without confulting her . The generous and witty Madame de la Sabliere furnished him with an apartment and all neceffaries in her house ; who , one day having turned away all The fame may be faid of ...
... never performed any confiderable work without confulting her . The generous and witty Madame de la Sabliere furnished him with an apartment and all neceffaries in her house ; who , one day having turned away all The fame may be faid of ...
עמוד 16
... never failed to fell a house or piece of land , fo that , what with his wife's economy and his own , a handsome family eftate was well nigh confumed . His Parifian friends urged him frequently to go and live with Mrs. la Fontaine ...
... never failed to fell a house or piece of land , fo that , what with his wife's economy and his own , a handsome family eftate was well nigh confumed . His Parifian friends urged him frequently to go and live with Mrs. la Fontaine ...
עמוד 17
... never been either an infidel , or a libertine , Fon- taine told him , that " he had lately bestowed fome hours in reading the New Teftament , which he thought a very good book . " Fontaine's life had as little affectation in it as his ...
... never been either an infidel , or a libertine , Fon- taine told him , that " he had lately bestowed fome hours in reading the New Teftament , which he thought a very good book . " Fontaine's life had as little affectation in it as his ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 86 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
עמוד 175 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
עמוד 55 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
עמוד 56 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
עמוד 167 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
עמוד 36 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
עמוד 169 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
עמוד 36 - Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
עמוד 13 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
עמוד 34 - If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by the change he has made, from having no religion, to choose one of the worst.