Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 頁 |
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... Addison had Budgel , and I think Philips , in the house with him . Gay they would call one of my eleves . They were angry with me for keeping so much with Dr. Swift , and some of the late ministry . Par- nell was with me too , and had ...
... Addison had Budgel , and I think Philips , in the house with him . Gay they would call one of my eleves . They were angry with me for keeping so much with Dr. Swift , and some of the late ministry . Par- nell was with me too , and had ...
第 7 頁
... Addison and me for some time ; and we had not been in company together for a good while any where , but at Button's Coffeehouse ; where I used to see him al- most every day . On his meeting me there one day in particular , he took me ...
... Addison and me for some time ; and we had not been in company together for a good while any where , but at Button's Coffeehouse ; where I used to see him al- most every day . On his meeting me there one day in particular , he took me ...
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... Addison a few days after returned it with very high com- mendations . Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young in the street , and upon our falling into that subject ...
... Addison a few days after returned it with very high com- mendations . Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young in the street , and upon our falling into that subject ...
第 9 頁
... and my relations very grossly . Lord Warwick himself told me one day , that " it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison ; that his jealous temper would never admit of a settled friendship between us OF MEN AND BOOKS .
... and my relations very grossly . Lord Warwick himself told me one day , that " it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison ; that his jealous temper would never admit of a settled friendship between us OF MEN AND BOOKS .
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... Addison . Mr. Addison used me very civilly ever after , and never did me any injustice that I know of , from that time to his death , which was about three years after . The same . [ Dr. Trapp , who was -- by at the time of this ...
... Addison . Mr. Addison used me very civilly ever after , and never did me any injustice that I know of , from that time to his death , which was about three years after . The same . [ Dr. Trapp , who was -- by at the time of this ...
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第 133 頁 - That's very strange ; but. if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should' I have had ? A couple of lobsters; ay, that would have done very •well; two shillings; tarts, a shilling; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket ?' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
第 112 頁 - One day, as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner : " and then gave him the plan for it.
第 134 頁 - A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings — tarts, a shilling : but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket? — 'No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
第 136 頁 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
第 10 頁 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his ; that if I...
第 148 頁 - Snch a post as that, and such a wife as the Countess, do not seem to be, in prudence, eligible for a man that is asthmatic, and we may see the day when he will be heartily glad to resign them both.
第 129 頁 - Prior was not a right good man. He used to bury himself, for whole days and nights together, with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard.
第 19 頁 - It was while I lived in the Forest, that I got so well acquainted with Sir William Trumbull, who loved very much to read and talk of the classics in his retirement. We used to take a ride out together, three or four days in the week, and at last, almost every day.—Another of my earliest acquaintance was Walsh. I was with him at his seat in Worcestershire, for a good part of the summer of 1705, and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706.
第 47 頁 - P I endeavoured, (said he, smiling), in this poem, to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece : there was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius; here Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian.
第 62 頁 - He observed, how well that would hit my case, if I were to imitate it in English. After he was gone, I read it over ; translated it in a morning or two, and sent it to the press in a week or fortnight after. And this was the occasion of my imitating some other of the satires and epistles afterwards.