Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Amours of William Congreve, Esq: Interspersed with Miscellaneous Essays, Letters, and Characters Written by Him : Also Some Very Curious Memoirs of Mr. Dryden and His Family, with a Character of Him and His Writings by Mr. CongreveEdmond Curll, 1730 - 306 Seiten |
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Seite 27 - Not given the Form alone, but Means and Art, To draw the Eye, or to allure the Heart, Poor were the Praife in Fortune to excel, Yet want the Way to ufe that Fortune well.
Seite 37 - I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.
Seite 72 - Christ's, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use their Ministry, both in hearing the Word of God, and in receiving the Sacraments.
Seite 49 - tis odds but half the audience would have sided with the character and have condemned the author for exposing a Humour which was neither remarkable nor ridiculous.
Seite 35 - As his reading had been very extensive, so was he very happy in a memory tenacious of every thing that he had read.
Seite 36 - Indeed, it is to be regretted, that he was rather blameable in the other extreme; for, by that means, he was personally less known, and, consequently, his character might become liable both to misapprehensions and misrepresentations. "To the best of my knowledge and observation, he was, of all the men that ever I knew, one of the most modest, and the most easily to be discountenanced in his approaches either to his superiors or his equals.
Seite 12 - em judging in the Pit; } Tho' they're on no pretence for Judgment fit, > But that they have been Damn'd for want of wit. ) Since when, they, by their own offences taught, Set up for Spies on Plays, and finding Fault. Others there are whose Malice we'd prevent...
Seite 3 - What rugged ways attend the noon of life ! Our sun declines, and with what anxious strife, What pain, we tug that galling load — a wife.
Seite 19 - In the character which gives name to the play, there is excellently represented the reluctance of a battered debauchee to come into the trammels of order and. decency : he neither languishes nor burns, but frets for love.
Seite 146 - And now, Sir, believe me when I assure you, I never did, nor ever will, on any pretence whatsoever, take more than the stated and customary fees of my office*. I might keep the contrary practice concealed from the world, were I capable of it, but I could not from myself ; and I hope I shall always fear the reproaches of my own heart more than those of all mankind.