 | 1885 - 668 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. ' WILLIAM SHENSTONE. 1714-1763. [SHENSTONE was born at the Leasowes, near Hales Owen, in 1714 : he... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 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 name1.' with some encouragement, till it was insinuated that he was a pensioner of the minister, and... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 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 name1.' with some encouragement, till it was ' ' This address had the desired insinuated that he was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 Seiten
...then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure hred her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which could not fail to be very was brought up with alterations, at Drury-lane Theatre.... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 554 Seiten
...Yet then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignify'd delight; When Pleasure fired her torch at Virtue's flame, And Mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' Pope, by infinite pains, elaborated his composition into verse like this:—the early and continued... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 506 Seiten
...Yet then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignify'd delight ; When Pleasure fired her torch at Virtue's flame, And Mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' Pope, by infinite pains, elaborated his composition into verse like this: — the early and continued... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 Seiten
...Yet then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure never had religion before, no more grows religious when he is sick, than a man A circumstance which could not fail to be verypleasing to Johnson occurred this year. The tragedy of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 Seiten
...then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignifted delight ; When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY. f JOKN WEstEY, founder of ' the people called Methodists,' was the seconJ... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 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... | |
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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. 
