The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Band 34Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1855 |
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... write what they thought , regardless of reviewers . Yet the bulk of his treaties had no relation to this position , which he has not supported by any age of the preceding generation , when a dinner with Lord Somers , procured invita ...
... write what they thought , regardless of reviewers . Yet the bulk of his treaties had no relation to this position , which he has not supported by any age of the preceding generation , when a dinner with Lord Somers , procured invita ...
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... write a volume a month . " But , at this earlier pe- riod , he had an inconvenient propensity to linger over his work . " I could not suppress my lurking passion for applause , " he makes George Primrose ( who is the alias of Oliver ...
... write a volume a month . " But , at this earlier pe- riod , he had an inconvenient propensity to linger over his work . " I could not suppress my lurking passion for applause , " he makes George Primrose ( who is the alias of Oliver ...
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... write his Life . He speaks in many passages of his personal acquaintance with him ; and though it does not appear ... writing sundry miscellanies , he was busy upon a " History of England " for the young , in a series of letters . of ...
... write his Life . He speaks in many passages of his personal acquaintance with him ; and though it does not appear ... writing sundry miscellanies , he was busy upon a " History of England " for the young , in a series of letters . of ...
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... write to live , we should have inferred that he had resigned himself to the indolent enjoyment of his fame . It is conjectured , from a memo- randum by Newberry , that he drew up at this time the rough draught of the work en- titled " A ...
... write to live , we should have inferred that he had resigned himself to the indolent enjoyment of his fame . It is conjectured , from a memo- randum by Newberry , that he drew up at this time the rough draught of the work en- titled " A ...
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... write for the stage , a successful play at that period producing far larger profits to the author than any other species of literary composition . He acted on the advice , and , having completed in 1767 his comedy of the " Good ...
... write for the stage , a successful play at that period producing far larger profits to the author than any other species of literary composition . He acted on the advice , and , having completed in 1767 his comedy of the " Good ...
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Seite 148 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Seite 334 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 153 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 5 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Seite 153 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 149 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Seite 152 - ... of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one. but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
Seite 105 - Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Seite 19 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
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