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Page xxii
... acquaintance ) upon him in a new light , might curb his desires , and make him ashamed of understanding and seeming to feel what was virtuous , and living so quite con- trary a life . " Further than this , which seems rather to indicate ...
... acquaintance ) upon him in a new light , might curb his desires , and make him ashamed of understanding and seeming to feel what was virtuous , and living so quite con- trary a life . " Further than this , which seems rather to indicate ...
Page xxix
... acquainted with me ; upon which I have been to see him ; he is confined with the gout , and is , as I am informed , writing a play , since he gave over the Spectators . This gentleman is extremely civil INTRODUCTION . xxix.
... acquainted with me ; upon which I have been to see him ; he is confined with the gout , and is , as I am informed , writing a play , since he gave over the Spectators . This gentleman is extremely civil INTRODUCTION . xxix.
Page xxx
... acquaintance . For my part , I should reckon it a sufficient recompense of my pains in writing it that it gave me some share in the friendship of so worthy a man . ” Two years later , when Steele , recently knighted , was at the height ...
... acquaintance . For my part , I should reckon it a sufficient recompense of my pains in writing it that it gave me some share in the friendship of so worthy a man . ” Two years later , when Steele , recently knighted , was at the height ...
Page xxxviii
... acquaintance through Caryll . All that passed between them in subsequent years , were somewhat conventional letters , of praise or suggestion on the part of Steele , of modest acquiescence on the part of Pope . The latter , however , on ...
... acquaintance through Caryll . All that passed between them in subsequent years , were somewhat conventional letters , of praise or suggestion on the part of Steele , of modest acquiescence on the part of Pope . The latter , however , on ...
Page xl
... acquaintance with Swift probably goes back to 1705 , and the coffee - houses where the mad parson used to stride up and down , opening his mouth only for abrupt and astonishing remarks . During the summer of 1708 he was certainly in ...
... acquaintance with Swift probably goes back to 1705 , and the coffee - houses where the mad parson used to stride up and down , opening his mouth only for abrupt and astonishing remarks . During the summer of 1708 he was certainly in ...
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Page 75 - ... was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling Papa; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 87 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Page 88 - ... town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Page 87 - All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Page 89 - A person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.
Page 76 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Page 60 - ... express the pleasure it is to be met by the children with so much joy as I am when I go thither. The boys and girls strive who shall come first, when they think it is I that am knocking at the door; and that child which loses the race to me runs back again to tell the father it is Mr.
Page 88 - Tully, but not one Case in the Reports of our own Courts. No one ever took him for a Fool, but none, except his intimate Friends, know he has a great deal of Wit. This Turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable: As few of his Thoughts are drawn from Business, they are most of them fit for Conversation.
Page 91 - ... in a word, all his conversation and knowledge has been in the female world. As other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park.
Page 90 - Roger, he has quitted a way of life in which no man can rise suitably to his merit, who is not something of a courtier, as well as a soldier. I have heard him often lament, that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view, impudence should get the better of modesty. When he...