Lives of Northern Worthies, Bind 3E. Moxon, 1852 |
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Adventure Aleppo anchored appeared arrived ashore beauty boat Botany Bay called canoes Cape Captain Cook character Church coast comedy commander Congreve Congreve's continued Cook's crew delight discovered discovery Dryden Endeavour England English European favour feeling Fothergill French genius George Ash harbour HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE honour hope Huaheine human inhabitants island Isle Katherine Philips King knowledge labour land language learned less Liverpool living Lord means Mercury Bay mind moral nation natives nature navigators never Oberea object observed Omai Otaheitan Otaheite passion peace perhaps persons physician poetical poetry poets poor Pope probably produced proved punishment Resolution Roscoe Roscoe's sailed savages Shakspeare ship shore Sir Joseph Banks Society Society Islands Solander soon spirit supposed thing thought tion took Tootahah truth Tupia Ulietea vessel voyage William Congreve writing young Roscoe Zealand
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Side 51 - upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia—subterraneous fields— Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us,—the place where in the end We find our happiness, or not at all ! "—WORDSWORTH.
Side 342 - the mind, but had not power to raise. Great Jonson did by strength of judgment please, Yet, doubling Fletcher's force, he wants his ease. In diff'ring talents both adorn'd their age ; One for the study, t'other for the stage. But both to Congreve justly shall submit, One
Side 321 - they wanted shoes ; And crazy Congreve scarce could spare A shilling to discharge his chair, Till prudence taught him to appeal From Paean's fire to party zeal : Not owing to his happy vein The fortunes of his latter scene ; Took proper principles to thrive, And so might any dunce alive.
Side 103 - how would they disgust without one ! What a sycophant to the public taste was Dryden ! sinning against his feelings, lewd in his writings, though chaste in his conversation. I know not but one might search these eight volumes with a candle, as the prophet says, to find a MAN and not find ONE, unless perhaps,
Side 331 - Mourning Bride,' a play which, paltry as it is when compared, we do not say with ' Lear," or ' Macbeth,' but with the best dramas of Massinger and Ford, stands very high among the tragedies of the age in which it was written. To find anything so good we must go
Side 343 - And join his suffrage to the votes of Rome, Though he with Hannibal was overcome. Thus old Romano bow'd to Raphael's fame, And scholar to the youth he taught became. Oh that your brows my laurel had sustain'd ! Well had I been deposed, if you had
Side 344 - insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you ; And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less. Congreve
Side 299 - once uttered are sullenly supported. Boileau, who desired to be thought a rigorous and steady moralist, having told a petty lie to Louis XIV., continued it afterwards by false dates, thinking himself obliged in honour, says his admirer, to maintain what, when he
Side 343 - love. Fabius might joy in Scipio, when he saw A beardless consul made against the law, And join his suffrage to the votes of Rome, Though he with Hannibal was overcome. Thus old Romano bow'd to Raphael's fame, And scholar to the youth he taught became. Oh that your brows my laurel had sustain'd ! Well had I been
Side 340 - part of an audience : they are rather objects of charity than contempt, and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite our compassion. This reflection moved me to design some characters which should seem ridiculous, not so much