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Page ix
... nights is invariably seen at the Fountain Head at St. James's ; his face is well known even at the Cocoa Tree and the Grecian . He visits the theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden , and even passes occasionally for a Jew among the ...
... nights is invariably seen at the Fountain Head at St. James's ; his face is well known even at the Cocoa Tree and the Grecian . He visits the theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden , and even passes occasionally for a Jew among the ...
Page xi
... night with Will Honeycomb , and eating and drinking with a prostitute . If this reasoning be not sufficient to establish this curious fact in lite- rary history , and which may not be less true because it has escaped the notice of ...
... night with Will Honeycomb , and eating and drinking with a prostitute . If this reasoning be not sufficient to establish this curious fact in lite- rary history , and which may not be less true because it has escaped the notice of ...
Page xvi
... nights in drunkenness and debauchery . Every day as he was composing the good book , he hoped it would pre- vent him from sinning any more , and day after day he continued writing , crying , sinning , and repenting . It at length ...
... nights in drunkenness and debauchery . Every day as he was composing the good book , he hoped it would pre- vent him from sinning any more , and day after day he continued writing , crying , sinning , and repenting . It at length ...
Page xx
... night when his " Siege of Damascus " was first performed . Though not a great poet , Hughes was extremely poetical , and had so much of Addi- son's confidence , that he was allowed to prepare a XX INTRODUCTORY AND CRITICAL PREFACE .
... night when his " Siege of Damascus " was first performed . Though not a great poet , Hughes was extremely poetical , and had so much of Addi- son's confidence , that he was allowed to prepare a XX INTRODUCTORY AND CRITICAL PREFACE .
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... nights at St. James's coffee house , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise very well known at the Grecian , the Cocoa Tree , and in the ...
... nights at St. James's coffee house , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise very well known at the Grecian , the Cocoa Tree , and in the ...
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Page 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 370 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear.
Page 340 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Page 356 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Page 197 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Page 356 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
Page 225 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 6 - 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.
Page 293 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Page 359 - ... the death of the present incumbent, who is very old, to bestow it according to merit. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the "squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church.