The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a Life of Each, Volumen 1Houghton, Osgood & Company, 1880 |
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... sense and a vigorous imagination ; and our author often ac- knowledged that this proved the most disagreeable pursuit in which he had ever been engaged , and that nothing could have supported him under it but a consciousness of the ...
... sense and a vigorous imagination ; and our author often ac- knowledged that this proved the most disagreeable pursuit in which he had ever been engaged , and that nothing could have supported him under it but a consciousness of the ...
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... sense , while the satire is spirited and just , pointed and severe . From the publication of this poem in April , 1761 , one month after the Rosciad , his literary character might be considered as esta- blished . Lloyd , who by the ...
... sense , while the satire is spirited and just , pointed and severe . From the publication of this poem in April , 1761 , one month after the Rosciad , his literary character might be considered as esta- blished . Lloyd , who by the ...
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... sense of the provocation received from • own Hogarth . We are now arrived at the most painful part of our duty , that of relating an event which gave Churchill more real anxiety of mind than any other transaction of his life . Early in ...
... sense of the provocation received from • own Hogarth . We are now arrived at the most painful part of our duty , that of relating an event which gave Churchill more real anxiety of mind than any other transaction of his life . Early in ...
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... sense of Sir W. Forbes induced him to expunge this poem from his edition of Beattie's works . It has however been reprinted in most of the subsequent editions , and we give some extracts from the poem as well as from his pre- liminary ...
... sense of Sir W. Forbes induced him to expunge this poem from his edition of Beattie's works . It has however been reprinted in most of the subsequent editions , and we give some extracts from the poem as well as from his pre- liminary ...
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... sense and substance of Beattie's tirade . EPITAPH ON THE SUGGESTION OF A MONUMENT TO C. CHURCHILL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY . " Tho ' you finish the work with most masterly skill , All judges will say , it becomes a Church - ill . " By way ...
... sense and substance of Beattie's tirade . EPITAPH ON THE SUGGESTION OF A MONUMENT TO C. CHURCHILL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY . " Tho ' you finish the work with most masterly skill , All judges will say , it becomes a Church - ill . " By way ...
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The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a ..., Volumen 1 Charles Churchill Vista de fragmentos - 1844 |
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Página 163 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Página 271 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 147 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Página 158 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 271 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Página 32 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 199 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página lxiv - Nay, sir, I am a very fair judge. He did not attack me violently till he found I did not like his poetry ; and his attack on me shall not prevent me from continuing to say what I think of him, from an apprehension that it may be ascribed to resentment. No, sir, I called the fellow a blockhead at first, and I will call him a blockhead still.
Página 45 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Página 131 - The exhibitions of the stage were improved to the most exquisite entertainment by the talents and management of Garrick, who greatly surpassed all his predecessors of this and perhaps every other nation, in his genius for acting ; in the sweetness and variety of his tones, the irresistible magic of his eye, the fire and vivacity of his action, the elegance of attitude, and the whole pathos of expression.