The Life of Joseph AddisonCarey and Hart, 1846 - 279 стор. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 39
Сторінка 27
... hear nothing further of him till the pub- lication of his Christian Hero in 1701 , at which time he had be- come private secretary to General Lord Cutts , to whom the piece is inscribed . Meantime his friend was pursuing a straighter ...
... hear nothing further of him till the pub- lication of his Christian Hero in 1701 , at which time he had be- come private secretary to General Lord Cutts , to whom the piece is inscribed . Meantime his friend was pursuing a straighter ...
Сторінка 33
... company he was to appear in , and would fain hear all * Dr. Hannes was residing as a practising physician at Oxford . He was a contributor to the Musa Anglicanæ . the names of the translators . In short he told 3 JOSEPH ADDISON . 33.
... company he was to appear in , and would fain hear all * Dr. Hannes was residing as a practising physician at Oxford . He was a contributor to the Musa Anglicanæ . the names of the translators . In short he told 3 JOSEPH ADDISON . 33.
Сторінка 55
... hear in it that you had bid Farewell to Poetry by ye Instigation and contrivance of my brother Garr , that friend to strong drink and Enemy to the Muses : but I hope you will repent of so Rash a resolution , and that you have so much of ...
... hear in it that you had bid Farewell to Poetry by ye Instigation and contrivance of my brother Garr , that friend to strong drink and Enemy to the Muses : but I hope you will repent of so Rash a resolution , and that you have so much of ...
Сторінка 56
... hear there is at present a very great Ferment in Maudlin College which is workt up to a great height by Newnam Ale and frequent Canvassings . I suppose both parties before they engage will send into France for their Foreign Succours . I ...
... hear there is at present a very great Ferment in Maudlin College which is workt up to a great height by Newnam Ale and frequent Canvassings . I suppose both parties before they engage will send into France for their Foreign Succours . I ...
Сторінка 57
... hear in your last Letter that you were so terribly afflicted with the Gout , tho for your Comfort I believe you are the first English poet that have bin complimented with the Distemper : I was myself at that time sick of a Feaver which ...
... hear in your last Letter that you were so terribly afflicted with the Gout , tho for your Comfort I believe you are the first English poet that have bin complimented with the Distemper : I was myself at that time sick of a Feaver which ...
Інші видання - Показати все
Загальні терміни та фрази
Abraham Stanyan acquaintance Addison affairs afterwards Ambrose Philips appears believe Cato celebrated character circumstances Congreve correspondence court critic Dear Sir-I desire dison Duke Duke of Marlborough Earl England English esteem favor French friendship genius Georgics give Grace hear honor hope humble servant humor Iliad interest Ireland Italy Joseph Addison kind King L'ship lady Latin letter Lisbon literary Lord Halifax Lord Somers Lord Sunderland Lord Wharton Lordship Majesty Marlborough ment merit nature never obliged occasion Ovid Oxford party patron person piece pleased poem poet poetical poetry political Pope present probably queen received reign remarks respect scarcely secretary Somers Spectator spirit Steele Stepney Sunderland Swift taste Tatler Temple Stanyan thought Tickell papers Tickell's tion Tonson Tories translation travels verse Wharton Whig Wortley Wortley Montagu writing written ye sd
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 108 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Сторінка 79 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Сторінка 112 - The time in which he lived had reason to lament his obstinacy of silence, 'for he was,' says Steele, 'above all men in that talent called humour, and enjoyed it in such perfection that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus, who had all their wit and nature, heightened with humour more exquisite and delightful than any other man ever possessed.
Сторінка 57 - The king has humoured the genius of the place, and only made use of so much art as is necessary to help and regulate nature without reforming her too much.
Сторінка 201 - One would have thought it impossible for this kind of poetry, to have subsisted without fawns and satyrs, wood-nymphs and water-nymphs, with all the tribe of rural deities. But we see he has given a new life, and a more natural beauty to this way of writing, by substituting in the place of...
Сторінка 210 - Philips seemed to have been encouraged to abuse me in coffee-houses, and conversations: and Gildon wrote a thing about Wycherley, in which he had abused both me and my relations very grossly. Lord Warwick himself told me one day, that it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison; that his jealous temper would never admit of a settled friendship between us; and, to convince me of what he had said, assured me, that Addison had encouraged Gildon to publish those scandals, and had given...
Сторінка 170 - Mr. Addison and I are different as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off, by this damned business of party: he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this ministry ; but I love him still as well as ever, though we seldom meet.
Сторінка 274 - For, after a long and manly, but vain, struggle with his distemper, he dismissed his physicians, and with them all hopes of life. But with his hopes of life he dismissed not his concern for the living, but sent for a youth nearly related and finely accomplished, yet not above being the better for good impressions from a dying friend.
Сторінка 186 - ignorance of the moderns, the scribblers of the age, the decay of poetry/ are the topics of detraction with which he makes his entrance into the world : but how much more noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity, according to those beautiful lines of Sir John Denham, in his poem on Fletcher's works...
Сторінка 171 - tis often very pretty. Yesterday it was made of a noble hint I gave him long ago for his Tatlers, about an Indian supposed to write his travels into England. I repent he ever had it. I intended to have written a book on that subject. I believe he has spent it all in one paper, and all the under hints there are mine too ; but I never see him or Addison.