Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 6Sheldon, 1860 |
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... character , his restless activity , and his skill in the most ignoble tactics of faction , made him one of the most formidable enemies that a min- istry could have . He was keeper of the privy seal . His brother George was treasurer of ...
... character , his restless activity , and his skill in the most ignoble tactics of faction , made him one of the most formidable enemies that a min- istry could have . He was keeper of the privy seal . His brother George was treasurer of ...
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... character to inspire esteem or tenderness . He was not our countryman . He never set foot on our soil till he was more than thirty years old . His speech be- wrayed his foreign origin and breeding . His love for his native land , though ...
... character to inspire esteem or tenderness . He was not our countryman . He never set foot on our soil till he was more than thirty years old . His speech be- wrayed his foreign origin and breeding . His love for his native land , though ...
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... character , conciliated public favour . He was in the bloom of youth ; his person and address . were pleasing . Scandal imputed to him no vice ; and flattery might , without any glaring absurdity , ascribe to him many princely virtues ...
... character , conciliated public favour . He was in the bloom of youth ; his person and address . were pleasing . Scandal imputed to him no vice ; and flattery might , without any glaring absurdity , ascribe to him many princely virtues ...
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... character had not yet fully developed itself . He had been brought up in strict seclusion . The detract- ors of the Princess Dowager of Wales affirmed that she had kept her children from commerce with society , in order that she might ...
... character had not yet fully developed itself . He had been brought up in strict seclusion . The detract- ors of the Princess Dowager of Wales affirmed that she had kept her children from commerce with society , in order that she might ...
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... man of excitable nerves , sanguine in hope , easily elated by success and popular- ity , keenly sensible of injury , but prompt to forgive ; Grenville's character was stern , melancholy , and per- tinacious THE EARL OF CHATHAM . 27.
... man of excitable nerves , sanguine in hope , easily elated by success and popular- ity , keenly sensible of injury , but prompt to forgive ; Grenville's character was stern , melancholy , and per- tinacious THE EARL OF CHATHAM . 27.
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Seite 194 - O command of language, and the passages quoted from poets, divines and philosophers are so skilfully selected, that a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over the pages. The faults of the book resolve themselves, for the most part, into one great fault. Johnson was a wretched etymologist.
Seite 180 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, "was a vicious man; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him." At Hervey's table Johnson sometimes enjoyed feasts which were made more agreeable by contrast. But in general he dined, and thought that he dined well, on sixpenny worth of meat, and a pennyworth of bread, at an alehouse near Drury Lane. The effect of the privations and sufferings which he endured at this time was discernible to the last in his temper and...
Seite 184 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Seite 180 - Parliament, a lord of the treasury, an ambassador, a secretary of state. It would be easy, on the other hand, to name several writers of the nineteenth century of whom the least successful has received forty thousand pounds from the booksellers. But Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of the dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Literature had ceased to flourish under the patronage of the great, and had not begun to nourish under the patronage of the public.
Seite 158 - English writers ; to Reynolds, the first of English painters ; and to Burke, who had not yet entered Parliament, but had distinguished himself greatly by his writings and by the eloquence of his conversation. With these eminent men Goldsmith became intimate. In 1763 he was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of The Club.
Seite 223 - A letter is extant in which Lady Chatham, a woman of considerable abilities, remarked to her lord that their younger son at twelve had left far behind him his elder brother, who was fifteen. " The fineness, " she wrote, " of : William's mind makes him enjoy with the greatest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his small age.
Seite 155 - ... in turn without success. He applied for ordination ; but, as he applied in scarlet clothes, he was speedily turned out of the episcopal palace. He then became tutor in an opulent family, but soon quitted his situation in consequence of a dispute about play. Then he determined to emigrate to America. His relations, with much satisfaction, saw him set out for Cork on a good horse, with thirty pounds in his pocket. But in six weeks he came back on a miserable hack, without a penny, and informed...
Seite 109 - But no fear seems to have mingled with the affection which his fondness, constantly overflowing in a thousand endearing forms, had inspired in the little circle at Hayes. Chatham, at the time of his decease, had not, in both Houses of Parliament, ten personal adherents. Half the public men of the age had been estranged from him by his errors, and the other half by the exertions which he had made to repair his errors. His last speech had been an attack at once on the policy pursued by the government...
Seite 59 - He now begun to hold a language, to which, since the days of Cornet Joyce and President Bradshaw, no English King had been compelled to listen. In one matter, indeed, Grenville, at the expense of justice and liberty, gratified the passions of the court while gratifying his own. The persecution of Wilkes was eagerly pressed. He had written a parody on Pope's Essay on Man, entitled the Essay on Woman, and had appended to it notes, in ridicule of Waburton's famous Commentary.
Seite 155 - Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures, and picked up some superficial information about chemistry and natural history. Thence he went to Leyden, still pretending to study physic. He left that celebrated university, the third university at which he had resided, in his twenty-seventh year, without a degree, with the merest smattering of medical knowledge, and with no property but his clothes and his flute. His flute, however, proved a useful friend. He...