Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an Original Life of the AuthorHarper & Brothers, 1853 - 647 pages |
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Page xliv
... expect that he should recover , and accordingly desired his friend not to come again till his cure was completed , yet their leave taking was solemn and affecting , as that of a last farewell . Bolingbroke embraced the earl with ...
... expect that he should recover , and accordingly desired his friend not to come again till his cure was completed , yet their leave taking was solemn and affecting , as that of a last farewell . Bolingbroke embraced the earl with ...
Page xlv
... expect disagreeable things of that kind , and that the best use he could make of this incident , was to endeavour to counterbalance the disadvantage of his birth by supe- rior merit and knowledge . To fill up the vacancy which this ...
... expect disagreeable things of that kind , and that the best use he could make of this incident , was to endeavour to counterbalance the disadvantage of his birth by supe- rior merit and knowledge . To fill up the vacancy which this ...
Page xlix
... expect . " 1. Mar. 1754. " I am too much isole , too much secluded either from the " busy or the beau monde , to give you any account of either . " 25. Sept. 1754. " In truth , all the infirmities of an age still more advanced " than ...
... expect . " 1. Mar. 1754. " I am too much isole , too much secluded either from the " busy or the beau monde , to give you any account of either . " 25. Sept. 1754. " In truth , all the infirmities of an age still more advanced " than ...
Page li
... expect- ed , when there is neither terror to enforce , nor interest to invite it . " I confess that I have so much honest English pride , or perhaps prejudice , about me , as to think myself more considerable for whatever contributes to ...
... expect- ed , when there is neither terror to enforce , nor interest to invite it . " I confess that I have so much honest English pride , or perhaps prejudice , about me , as to think myself more considerable for whatever contributes to ...
Page liii
... expect , and am seldom disappointed , some new improvement of our language . I remember many expressive words coined in that fair mint . I assisted at the birth of that most significant word FLIRTATION , which dropped from the most ...
... expect , and am seldom disappointed , some new improvement of our language . I remember many expressive words coined in that fair mint . I assisted at the birth of that most significant word FLIRTATION , which dropped from the most ...
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Page lv - 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. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page lv - 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 lv - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page lv - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page lv - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Page 129 - ... man of sense laughs at it, at the same time that he knows he must not neglect it: there are a thousand foolish customs of this kind, which not being criminal must be complied with, and even cheerfully, by men of sense. Diogenes the Cynic was a wise man for despising them ; but a fool for showing it. Be wiser than other people, if you can ; but do not tell them so.
Page 279 - In mixed companies whoever is admitted to make part of them is for the time at least supposed to be upon a footing of equality with the rest ; and consequently as there is no one principal object of awe and respect, people are apt to take a greater latitude in their...
Page xxi - Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown :
Page 153 - For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me, when I was with Mr Addison and Mr Pope, as if I had been with all the princes in Europe.
Page 205 - Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four and twenty hours together.