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... paint mankind as it exists in the ordinary walks of life - all was rant and bombast , stilt and buskin . It will be Richardson's eternal praise , did he merit no more , that he tore from his personages those painted vizards , which ...
... paint mankind as it exists in the ordinary walks of life - all was rant and bombast , stilt and buskin . It will be Richardson's eternal praise , did he merit no more , that he tore from his personages those painted vizards , which ...
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... paintings that have been very minutely laboured , and which , amid their excel- 1 [ Boswell's Life of Johnson , Croker's edition , 1831 , vol . ii . , p . 49. ] Ibid . , vol . ii . , p . 50. ] 66 lence , still exhibit some of the ...
... paintings that have been very minutely laboured , and which , amid their excel- 1 [ Boswell's Life of Johnson , Croker's edition , 1831 , vol . ii . , p . 49. ] Ibid . , vol . ii . , p . 50. ] 66 lence , still exhibit some of the ...
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... painted in the foreground , and nothing in the distance . A game at whist , if the subject of a letter , must be detailed as much at length as a debate in the House of Commons , upon a subject of great national interest ; and hence ...
... painted in the foreground , and nothing in the distance . A game at whist , if the subject of a letter , must be detailed as much at length as a debate in the House of Commons , upon a subject of great national interest ; and hence ...
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... paintings which show their modest hues upon its walls . The public was indeed weary of the protract- ed embarrassments of lords and ladies who spoke such lan- guage as was never spoken , and still more so of the see - saw correspondence ...
... paintings which show their modest hues upon its walls . The public was indeed weary of the protract- ed embarrassments of lords and ladies who spoke such lan- guage as was never spoken , and still more so of the see - saw correspondence ...
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... painted With many followers acquainted : This , too , doth in my favour speak ; Your levee is but twice a - week , From mine I can exclude but one day , My door is quiet on a Sunday . Nor in the manner of attendance , Doth your great ...
... painted With many followers acquainted : This , too , doth in my favour speak ; Your levee is but twice a - week , From mine I can exclude but one day , My door is quiet on a Sunday . Nor in the manner of attendance , Doth your great ...
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Page 238 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return,...
Page 268 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Page 244 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Page 234 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...
Page 244 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old...
Page 224 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Page 254 - Vicar of Wakefield ' in youth and in age — we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature, — SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Page 304 - I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 290 - As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another; and as those old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots ... we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again...
Page 237 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had...