Daniel De Foe and Charles ChurchillLongman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855 - 267 Seiten |
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... Wilkes to the days of the Reform Bill , * * This remarkable pamphlet in Defence of Popular Rights , may be briefly described as a demonstration of the predominance of the Original over the Delegated authority , and remains still , as it ...
... Wilkes to the days of the Reform Bill , * * This remarkable pamphlet in Defence of Popular Rights , may be briefly described as a demonstration of the predominance of the Original over the Delegated authority , and remains still , as it ...
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... Wilkes , whose medical attendant he became , as late as 1778. In one place he says that he , Mr. Tooke , has endeavoured , without suc- cess , to ascertain the truth of a statement that Churchill had a curacy in Wales , and became ...
... Wilkes , whose medical attendant he became , as late as 1778. In one place he says that he , Mr. Tooke , has endeavoured , without suc- cess , to ascertain the truth of a statement that Churchill had a curacy in Wales , and became ...
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... Wilkes and a Sandwich exhaust- ed Churchill's . There is more to affect a writer's genius in personal and local influences of this kind , than he would himself be willing to allow . If , even in the failures of the first and greatest of ...
... Wilkes and a Sandwich exhaust- ed Churchill's . There is more to affect a writer's genius in personal and local influences of this kind , than he would himself be willing to allow . If , even in the failures of the first and greatest of ...
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... Wilkes deserted his supporters in the House of Commons to defend the playfellow of his dead friend ; and the irritable Cumberland so warmed to the memory of his school companion , as to call him always , fondly , the Dryden of his age ...
... Wilkes deserted his supporters in the House of Commons to defend the playfellow of his dead friend ; and the irritable Cumberland so warmed to the memory of his school companion , as to call him always , fondly , the Dryden of his age ...
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... Wilkes- " not amounting to a full hundred pounds a - year , in order to improve his finances , he undertook to teach young ladies to read and write English with propriety and correctness ; and was engaged for this purpose in the ...
... Wilkes- " not amounting to a full hundred pounds a - year , in order to improve his finances , he undertook to teach young ladies to read and write English with propriety and correctness ; and was engaged for this purpose in the ...
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admiration appeared assailed better Bishop Bonnell Thornton Bute called character CHARLES CHURCHILL Church Churchill's Colman court Daniel De Foe death Dissenters doubt Duke earnest effect England English Essay fear Foe's Garrick genius gentleman Godolphin grave Halifax hand Harley heart High Church Hogarth honest honour Horace Walpole House of Commons Joseph Addison justice King knew labours later less libel liberty lived Lloyd London Lord Lord Bute Lord Halifax Lord Haversham Lord Sandwich manly masterly matter Medmenham Abbey minister Ministry moral nature never North Briton party pillory poem poet poetry political popular praise pride principles printer published reason reign remarkable Review Robert Harley Robinson Crusoe Rosciad satire satirist says scene Scotch spirit tell things thought tion told took Tory truth verse Walpole Warburton Westminster Whigs Whilst Wilkes William writings wrote
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Seite 71 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Seite 101 - ... a careless writer for the most part, but where shall we find in any of those authors, who finish their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring strokes of fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon, and so happily finished, the matter so compressed, and yet so clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect...
Seite 27 - WITH that low cunning, which in fools supplies, And amply too, the place of being wise, Which Nature, kind, indulgent parent ! gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave...
Seite 31 - That sense may kindly end with every line ? Some dozen lines, before the ghost is there, Behold him for the solemn scene prepare. See how he frames his eyes, poises each limb, Puts the whole body into proper trim, — From whence we learn, with no great stretch of art, Five lines hence comes a ghost, and lo ! a start.
Seite 54 - Broad is the road, nor difficult to find, Which to the house of Satire leads mankind; Narrow and unfrequented are the ways, Scarce found out in an age, which lead to praise.
Seite 109 - Vast were his bones, his muscles twisted strong, His face was short, but broader than 'twas long, His features, though by nature they were large, Contentment had...
Seite 54 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Seite 101 - A TRUE RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF ONE MRS VEAL THE NEXT DAY AFTER HER DEATH TO ONE MRS BARGRAVE AT CANTERBURY, THE 8TH OF SEPTEMBER 1705...
Seite 106 - To match for speed one feather 'gainst another, To make one leg run races with his brother; 'Gainst all the rest to take the northern wind, Bute to ride first, and he to ride behind; To coin newfangled wagers, and to lay 'em, Laying to lose, and losing not to pay 'em; Lothario, on that stock which Nature gives, Without a rival stands, though March yet lives.
Seite 32 - His eyes, in gloomy socket taught to roll, Proclaim'd the sullen ' habit of his soul :' Heavy and phlegmatic he trod the stage, Too proud for tenderness, too dull for rage.