Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 1W. Suttaby, 1809 |
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... weekly tit for tat ; I was undermined by the Whisperer ; haunted by Tom Brown's Ghost ; scolded at by a Female Tatler . I have been annotated , re - tattled , exam- ined ; and condoled . ” In the catalogue of periodical works which I am ...
... weekly tit for tat ; I was undermined by the Whisperer ; haunted by Tom Brown's Ghost ; scolded at by a Female Tatler . I have been annotated , re - tattled , exam- ined ; and condoled . ” In the catalogue of periodical works which I am ...
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... weekly as long as we should think fit to give him any encouragement . " 17. THE EXAMINER . The political lucubra- tions of Steele in the Tatler , though neither nume- rous , nor written with much asperity , gave such offence to the ...
... weekly as long as we should think fit to give him any encouragement . " 17. THE EXAMINER . The political lucubra- tions of Steele in the Tatler , though neither nume- rous , nor written with much asperity , gave such offence to the ...
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... weekly Essay , originally published by John Tutchin , who , for his participation in the rebel- lion of Monmouth , and for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through ...
... weekly Essay , originally published by John Tutchin , who , for his participation in the rebel- lion of Monmouth , and for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through ...
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... Weekly Journal , a mode of publication to which Pope alludes in the following lines from the quarto edition of the Dunciad in 1728 . But what can I ? my Flaccus cast aside , Take up the Attorney's ( once my better ) guide ? Or rob the ...
... Weekly Journal , a mode of publication to which Pope alludes in the following lines from the quarto edition of the Dunciad in 1728 . But what can I ? my Flaccus cast aside , Take up the Attorney's ( once my better ) guide ? Or rob the ...
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... weekly paper , was probably the production of Ducket , and is alluded to in the following lines of the quarto edition of the Dunciad , 1728 : Behold yon pair in strict embraces join'd ; How like in manners , and how like in mind ! Fam'd ...
... weekly paper , was probably the production of Ducket , and is alluded to in the following lines of the quarto edition of the Dunciad , 1728 : Behold yon pair in strict embraces join'd ; How like in manners , and how like in mind ! Fam'd ...
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Page 337 - 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, "SAM JOHNSON.
Page 337 - 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 307 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 336 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 404 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Page 336 - 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?
Page 464 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Page 254 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Page 307 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 338 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.