The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 sider |
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... , Mr. Prior says , " the Re- verend Doctor Strean , in an Essay on Light Read- ing , ' by the Reverend Edward Mangin ; who has furnished several suggestions likewise , to the writer , for 4 THE PARLOUR WINDOW . PRIOR'S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH.
... , Mr. Prior says , " the Re- verend Doctor Strean , in an Essay on Light Read- ing , ' by the Reverend Edward Mangin ; who has furnished several suggestions likewise , to the writer , for 4 THE PARLOUR WINDOW . PRIOR'S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH.
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Or, Anecdotes Edward Mangin. furnished several suggestions likewise , to the writer , for which he is obliged . " This is not very fairly stated by Mr. P. , who having applied to Doctor Strean for information respecting Goldsmith , the ...
Or, Anecdotes Edward Mangin. furnished several suggestions likewise , to the writer , for which he is obliged . " This is not very fairly stated by Mr. P. , who having applied to Doctor Strean for information respecting Goldsmith , the ...
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... writer to employ eight or nine years in the com- position of any one work , -but , to lay aside what he may have written until the ninth year after he has finished the performance ; and then , having examined it dispassionately ...
... writer to employ eight or nine years in the com- position of any one work , -but , to lay aside what he may have written until the ninth year after he has finished the performance ; and then , having examined it dispassionately ...
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... writers call hard words . Page 137 , vol . iii . " Only seven leaves , but pasted together ; so that the work is an opistographised production . " And in the same page he speaks of " a generally unknown xylographic performance . " The ...
... writers call hard words . Page 137 , vol . iii . " Only seven leaves , but pasted together ; so that the work is an opistographised production . " And in the same page he speaks of " a generally unknown xylographic performance . " The ...
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... writer hoped it would ; but assuredly it served almost to deprive him of life , and entirely of his peace of mind , by the vexation it must have inflicted on him . The English language , old or modern , has few things so well written to ...
... writer hoped it would ; but assuredly it served almost to deprive him of life , and entirely of his peace of mind , by the vexation it must have inflicted on him . The English language , old or modern , has few things so well written to ...
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Side 163 - Macbeth," which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Side 149 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Side 27 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Side 148 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still...
Side 165 - But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.
Side 64 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Side 158 - I did never see before) ; and though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look which is pleasing. Here I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me most, Mr. Crofts...
Side 167 - ... so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life. We found a shepherd and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him...
Side 163 - I home by coach, but met not one bonfire through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the city at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.
Side 165 - Sir H. Cholmly come to me this day, and tells me the Court is as mad as ever; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in hunting of a poor moth.