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... sent this tragedy to him , with a short copy of verses , * in which he de- sired his correction . Mr. Hill , whose humanity and politeness are generally known , readily complied with his request ; but as he is remarkable for singularity ...
... sent this tragedy to him , with a short copy of verses , * in which he de- sired his correction . Mr. Hill , whose humanity and politeness are generally known , readily complied with his request ; but as he is remarkable for singularity ...
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... sent him in consequence of the compassion excited by Mr. Hill's pathetic representation . To this miscellany he wrote a preface , in which he gives an ac- count of his mother's cruelty in a very uncommon strain of humour , and with a ...
... sent him in consequence of the compassion excited by Mr. Hill's pathetic representation . To this miscellany he wrote a preface , in which he gives an ac- count of his mother's cruelty in a very uncommon strain of humour , and with a ...
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... sent back to the court to re- ceive sentence ; on which occasion Mr. Savage made , as far as it could be retained in memory , the following speech : " It is now , my lord , too late to offer any thing by way of defence or vindication ...
... sent back to the court to re- ceive sentence ; on which occasion Mr. Savage made , as far as it could be retained in memory , the following speech : " It is now , my lord , too late to offer any thing by way of defence or vindication ...
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... sent to Theophilus Cibber , that it might be transmitted to her through the means of Mr. Wilks . In his letter to Cibber he says : " As to death I am easy , and dare meet it like a man ; all that touches me is the con- cern of my ...
... sent to Theophilus Cibber , that it might be transmitted to her through the means of Mr. Wilks . In his letter to Cibber he says : " As to death I am easy , and dare meet it like a man ; all that touches me is the con- cern of my ...
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... sent to a bookseller for them . The author had not at that time a friend , either to get him introduced or his poem presented at court ; yet such was the un- speakable goodness of that princess , that , notwithstanding this act of ...
... sent to a bookseller for them . The author had not at that time a friend , either to get him introduced or his poem presented at court ; yet such was the un- speakable goodness of that princess , that , notwithstanding this act of ...
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Page 81 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 171 - First, an austere purity of language, both grammatically and logically ; in short, a perfect appropriateness of the words to the meaning.
Page 277 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Page 72 - I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.
Page 278 - We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet...
Page 234 - Shall I go, my lord, and fetch pen, ink, and paper?' 'Oh, my God! no; you will lose too much time, and I have it not to spare, for my time is now short,' said his lordship ;; and immediately after, ' Now pay attention !' His lordship commenced by saying,
Page 247 - Inn, — when life was fresh, and topics exhaustless, — and you first kindled in me, if not the power, yet the love of poetry, and beauty, and kindliness...
Page 234 - I have, my lord,1 was my answer. Upon which he said, ' You have done right ; for I should like to know what is the matter with me.' Although his lordship did not appear to think his dissolution was so near, I could perceive he was getting weaker every hour ; and he even began to have occasional fits of delirium.
Page 289 - Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine, being a View of the Progress of the Healing Art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabians" — a work of great research and diversified erudition.
Page 97 - Imagination," appeared in 1744. I have heard Dodsley, by whom it was published, relate, that when the copy was offered him, the price demanded for it, which was an hundred and twenty pounds, being such as he was not inclined to give precipitately, he carried the work to Pope, who, having looked into it, advised him not to make a niggardly offer ; for " this was no every