 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803 - 886 Seiten
...Harrow on the Hill, near London. " His death,*' observes l'ope, in a letter written shortly after, " was unaffected enough to have made a saint or a philosopher...without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth." SELLABY * Britannia Romani, p. 296. SELLABY HALL is a beautiful villa of free-slone and blueslate,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1803 - 770 Seiten
...death as heroical and unaffected. He adds a singular kind of refutation or apology. " If there was ever a good Christian without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth." This, it must be confessed, approaches very near to nonsense. He praises him better by calling him... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...of Addison «nd of Grenville. He is accused of voluptuousness and irreligion ; and Pope, whosaysthat "'if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself " to be so, it was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear and loth to confess. Pope afterwards declared himself... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 512 Seiten
...worse hearts have branded his last moments, as wrongfully as they did his life, with irreligion: — if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth. On Her Majesty's Statue, in St. Paul's Church-yard. NEAK the vast bulk of that stupendous frame, Known... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 Seiten
...Addison and of Granville. He is accused of voluptuousness and irreligion ; and Pope, who says, " that if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear, and loth to confess. Pope afterwards declared, himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 Seiten
...Addiso* ajid of Granville. He is accused of voluptuousness and Irreligion ; and Pope, who says, " that if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it -was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear, and loth to confess. Pope afterwards declared himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 Seiten
...Addison and of Granville. He is accused of voluptuousness and irreligion ; and Pope, who says, " that if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it -was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear, and loth to confess. Pope afterwards declared himself... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 Seiten
...wrongfully as they did his life, with in\-li«iim. Yon must have heard many tales on this subject ; but if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth. Your, &c. LETTER LIT. MR. POPE TO * * * ". Sept. n. THE gaiety of your letter proves you not so studious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 Seiten
...wrongfully as they did his life, with irreligion. You must have heard many tales on this subject ; but if ever there was a good Christian without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth. Your, etc. LETTER X. < TO MR. * * * * . f September, 1 7. gaiety of your letter proves you not so studious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 Seiten
...wrongful!}7 as they did his life, with irreligion. You must have heard many tales on this subject ; but if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth." This, however, is nothing against positive evidence, that Dr. Garth was a free-thinker, and a sensualist... | |
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You must have heard many tales on this subject ; but if ever there was a good Christian, without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth. 
