The lives of the English poetsF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 43
עמוד 10
... and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste SMITH . 11 about town was remarkable on this occasion.
... and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste SMITH . 11 about town was remarkable on this occasion.
עמוד 20
... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
עמוד 21
... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spec- tator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , ac- customed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells us ...
... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spec- tator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , ac- customed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells us ...
עמוד 25
... play a prologue from Ad- dison , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation ...
... play a prologue from Ad- dison , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation ...
עמוד 63
... play does not sufficiently correspond with the behaviour of Calista , who at last shews no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detec- tion rather than from guilt , and expresses more shame ...
... play does not sufficiently correspond with the behaviour of Calista , who at last shews no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detec- tion rather than from guilt , and expresses more shame ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared Battle of Ramillies Beggar's Opera Cato censure character Cibber conduct Congreve considered contempt court criticism death declared distress Dryden Duke Earl elegance endeavoured excellence expence favour fortune friends genius gentleman honour imagined Juba jury justly kind King William Lady letter likewise lived lord chamberlain Lord Halifax mankind Matthew Prior ment mentioned merit mind mother nature ness never observed obtained occasion once opinion Oxford passion performance perhaps person play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise present Prior publick published Queen racter reason received regard remarkable Savage Savage's says seems Sempronius sent shew shewn Sir Richard Steele Sir Robert Walpole Smith solicited sometimes Spence Steele supposed Syphax Tatler tenderness Theophilus Cibber thought Tickell tion told topicks tragedy Tyrconnel verses virtue Whig William Congreve write written wrote
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עמוד 26 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
עמוד 113 - was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it into language, with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated.
עמוד 26 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
עמוד 184 - ... clash of wit, in which nothing flows necessarily from the occasion, or is dictated by nature. The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial, as those of Heartwell and the Ladies; or easy and common, as Wittol a tame idiot, Bluff a swaggering coward, and Fondlewife a jealous puritan; and the catastrophe arises from a mistake not very probably produced, by marrying a woman in a mask.
עמוד 193 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
עמוד 110 - He taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die.
עמוד 144 - His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling, pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.
עמוד 296 - 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 144 - outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can...
עמוד 99 - He wrote, as different exigencies required (in 1707), the Present State of the War, and the necessity of an augmentation...