Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 23
עמוד 7
... poet may make a courtier talk in a courtly ftrain , but the fame language and ideas would be ab- furd in a fhepherd . For which reason I cannot approve of thofe whining fhep- herds , who are made to fay fuch a deal of things fo ...
... poet may make a courtier talk in a courtly ftrain , but the fame language and ideas would be ab- furd in a fhepherd . For which reason I cannot approve of thofe whining fhep- herds , who are made to fay fuch a deal of things fo ...
עמוד 13
... poet was more celebrated for the Beggars Opera , a fatire which was attended with amazing effects . He wrote it in an ill - humour , and being brought upon the ftage in the beginning of November 1727 , it was received with greater ...
... poet was more celebrated for the Beggars Opera , a fatire which was attended with amazing effects . He wrote it in an ill - humour , and being brought upon the ftage in the beginning of November 1727 , it was received with greater ...
עמוד 25
... poet of whom any fatirical strokes are hand- ed down to us . I fhould never hesitate to rank him among the first of satirists , if it was only on account of that admir- able character of Therfites . Therfites only clamour'd in the ...
... poet of whom any fatirical strokes are hand- ed down to us . I fhould never hesitate to rank him among the first of satirists , if it was only on account of that admir- able character of Therfites . Therfites only clamour'd in the ...
עמוד 35
... poet found an advocate in the Lord Lanf- down , who has flatly oppofed the bishop's affer- tion : " Why , fays his lordfhip , is Mr. Dryden ftigmatized as a monfter of immodefly and impu- rities of all forts ? He was fo much a ftranger ...
... poet found an advocate in the Lord Lanf- down , who has flatly oppofed the bishop's affer- tion : " Why , fays his lordfhip , is Mr. Dryden ftigmatized as a monfter of immodefly and impu- rities of all forts ? He was fo much a ftranger ...
עמוד 47
... poet ; in which he has difplayed more imagination than all his other works taken together . It should however be remembered , that he was not the first former and creator of those beautiful machines the Sylphs , on which his claim to ...
... poet ; in which he has difplayed more imagination than all his other works taken together . It should however be remembered , that he was not the first former and creator of those beautiful machines the Sylphs , on which his claim to ...
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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.