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... true if it had been given by Mrs. Thrale instead of Mrs. Piozzi , who writes with something of the bitterness arising from consciousness of wrongdoing . Lord Macaulay has described Mrs. Thrale , " at the height of her prosperity and ...
... true if it had been given by Mrs. Thrale instead of Mrs. Piozzi , who writes with something of the bitterness arising from consciousness of wrongdoing . Lord Macaulay has described Mrs. Thrale , " at the height of her prosperity and ...
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... true esteem ; " Why do you like that man's acquaintance so ? " said he . " Because , " replied I , " he is open and confiding , and tells me stories of his uncles and cousins ; I love the light parts of a solid character . " " Nay , if ...
... true esteem ; " Why do you like that man's acquaintance so ? " said he . " Because , " replied I , " he is open and confiding , and tells me stories of his uncles and cousins ; I love the light parts of a solid character . " " Nay , if ...
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... true ( said he ) ; but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shakespeare : these fellows know not how to blame , nor how to commend . " I forced him one day , in a similar humour , to prefer Young's ...
... true ( said he ) ; but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shakespeare : these fellows know not how to blame , nor how to commend . " I forced him one day , in a similar humour , to prefer Young's ...
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... true gratitude of a wit ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the ...
... true gratitude of a wit ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the ...
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... true , only because it is so . I hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and ...
... true , only because it is so . I hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and ...
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Page 391 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Page 31 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 382 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 412 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 377 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 391 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 363 - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Page 128 - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend Mrs. Carter," he added, " could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.
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