The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 8Carey & Hart, 1847 |
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... feeling the sublimity of the wreath was not unmingled with thorns ; and that " Paradise Lost , " even had he himself ... feelings of pity and terror , which tragedy he known the full extent of Milton's excellence , should excite : the ...
... feeling the sublimity of the wreath was not unmingled with thorns ; and that " Paradise Lost , " even had he himself ... feelings of pity and terror , which tragedy he known the full extent of Milton's excellence , should excite : the ...
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... feeling of the bad taste of rhyming plays , the de of Shakespeare , on whom Dryden had now turned grading dispute with ... feelings of their own hearts . When Dryden had once discovered , that fear and pity were more likely to be excited ...
... feeling of the bad taste of rhyming plays , the de of Shakespeare , on whom Dryden had now turned grading dispute with ... feelings of their own hearts . When Dryden had once discovered , that fear and pity were more likely to be excited ...
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... feelings of seem likely ; it is more probable , that Dryden shar- the audience . If such subordinate comic charac ... feeling the lighter , as well as the more violent or more deep affections of the mind . The shades of comic humour in ...
... feelings of seem likely ; it is more probable , that Dryden shar- the audience . If such subordinate comic charac ... feeling the lighter , as well as the more violent or more deep affections of the mind . The shades of comic humour in ...
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... feeling be much allayed , by the vague and abusive ribaldry with which his satire was repaid . This was natu- ral to the ... feelings , we may believe Dry- villany . " den's rest was little disturbed by the litter of libels against him ...
... feeling be much allayed , by the vague and abusive ribaldry with which his satire was repaid . This was natu- ral to the ... feelings , we may believe Dry- villany . " den's rest was little disturbed by the litter of libels against him ...
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... feeling at that time , Dryden was satisfied to not the apology of the poet , it is the duty of the give to Cesar the ... feelings must be allowed powerfully to affect the mind , when we reflect , that dency , being written to defend the ...
... feeling at that time , Dryden was satisfied to not the apology of the poet , it is the duty of the give to Cesar the ... feelings must be allowed powerfully to affect the mind , when we reflect , that dency , being written to defend the ...
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Page 57 - He always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; chapeau bras between his 'hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor.
Page 47 - Halifax till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to...
Page 29 - I stayed but a fortnight in Dublin, very sick, and returned not one visit of a hundred that were made me — but all to the Dean and none to the Doctor. I am riding here for life, and I think I am something better, and hate the thoughts of Dublin, and prefer a field-bed and an earthen floor before the great house there, which they say is mine.
Page 23 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 82 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.
Page 71 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention, than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment It is indeed not certain that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest.
Page 50 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Page 57 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story) and that, on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 14 - I am sorry for H. Fielding's death, not only as I shall read no more of his writings, but I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings.
Page 32 - I have changed my mind : you have a thousand people who can pretend they love you with as much appearance of sincerity as I ; so that, according to common justice, I can have but a thousandth part in return of what I give. And this difference is wholly owing to your station. And the misfortune is still the greater, because I always loved you just so much the worse for your station ; for in your public capacity you have often angered me to the heart, but, as a private man, never once.