 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 Seiten
...sound; Yet then shall calm reflection bless the night When liberal pity dignified delight; When Pleasure fired her torch at Virtue's flame. And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING. STERN Winter now, by Spring repressed; Forbears the long continued strife; And nature on her... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 Seiten
...received the fame honour from theUniverfity of Oxford ; an honour with which he was highly gratified. In 1777, he was induced, by a cafe of a very extraordinary nature, to exercife that humanity which in him was obedient to every call. Dr DODD, then under fentence of death... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 Seiten
...shall calm reflection bless the night, " When liberal pity dignified delight ; " When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, " And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which could not fail to be very pleasing to Johnson, occurred this year. The Tragedy... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...then shall calm reflections bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler asm-: § 100. Prologue to Sir Thomas Overbury. 1777. SHERIDAX. Too long the muse, attach'd to regal... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 Seiten
...then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." by Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; in which, after describing very pathetically the wretchedness of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 Seiten
...then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When Pleasure fir'd her torch at Virtue's flame, And Mirth was bounty with an humbler name. * Performed at Covent-Garden theatre in 1777, for the benefit of Mrs Kelly, widow of Hugh Kelly, Esq.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 Seiten
...then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which could not fail to be very pleasing to Johnson, occurred this year. The Tragedy... | |
 | 1822 - 292 Seiten
...Yet then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight; When pleasure fired her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. 1 Performed at Covent Garden Theatre, for the benefit of Mrs. Kelly, widow of Hugh Kelly, Esq. (the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 Seiten
...shall calm reflection bless the night, ' When liberal pity dignified delight ; ' When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, ' And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which could not fail to be very VOL. III. I pleasing to Johnson, occurred this year.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 Seiten
...Yet then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight; When pleasure fired her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which could not fail to be very pleasing to Johnson occurred this year. The tragedy... | |
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... too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. 
