Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 pages |
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Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Charles Lamb Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Dickens Robert Browning , Robert Louis Stevenson PAGE Fraser Rae 473 Alfred Ainger 487 Sir Leslie ...
Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Charles Lamb Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Dickens Robert Browning , Robert Louis Stevenson PAGE Fraser Rae 473 Alfred Ainger 487 Sir Leslie ...
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... Sheridan , in supporting the impeachment . Surely a woman of far inferior abilities to Miss Burney might have been expected to see that this never could have happened unless there had been a strong case against the late Governor ...
... Sheridan , in supporting the impeachment . Surely a woman of far inferior abilities to Miss Burney might have been expected to see that this never could have happened unless there had been a strong case against the late Governor ...
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... Sheridan and Murphy , who were common friends of Johnson and Wedderburne ( afterwards Lord Loughborough ) , suggested to Wedderburne to apply to Bute on behalf of Johnson . Other friends appear to have concurred in the application , and ...
... Sheridan and Murphy , who were common friends of Johnson and Wedderburne ( afterwards Lord Loughborough ) , suggested to Wedderburne to apply to Bute on behalf of Johnson . Other friends appear to have concurred in the application , and ...
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... Sheridan also received a pension of 200l . a year , and a petulant remark of Johnson's ( ' that it is time for me to give up mine ' ) was repeated to Sheri- dan and caused a lasting alienation , the only case recorded of the loss of a ...
... Sheridan also received a pension of 200l . a year , and a petulant remark of Johnson's ( ' that it is time for me to give up mine ' ) was repeated to Sheri- dan and caused a lasting alienation , the only case recorded of the loss of a ...
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... Sheridan , Dunning , Lord Stowell , Bishop Shipley , Thomas and Joseph Warton , and Charles Burney ( see list of Club in Croker , Boswell , ii . App . 1 ) . Johnson was annoyed by Garrick's assumption in saying , ' I'll be of you ...
... Sheridan , Dunning , Lord Stowell , Bishop Shipley , Thomas and Joseph Warton , and Charles Burney ( see list of Club in Croker , Boswell , ii . App . 1 ) . Johnson was annoyed by Garrick's assumption in saying , ' I'll be of you ...
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Page 617 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 73 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 80 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 459 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 63 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 371 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Page 317 - Etouffe dans la foule, Faute d'etre assez grand ; Une plainte touchante De ma bouche sortit ; Le bon Dieu me dit : Chante, Chante, pauvre petit ! Chanter, ou je m'abuse, Est ma tache ici-bas. Tous ceux qu'ainsi j'amuse, Ne m'aimeront-ils pas...
Page 325 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 212 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Page 454 - 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'].