Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men |
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用戶評語 - JBD1 - LibraryThingA collection of anecdotes, mostly collected from Spence's conversations with Pope, but including snippets from many others as well. Most deal with literature, writing, and impressions of ... 閱讀評論全文
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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 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 136 頁 - OOOJJO some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
第 10 頁 - Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should...
第 8 頁 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.
第 262 頁 - ... nec sum animi dubius, verbis ea vincere magnum quam sit, et angustis hunc addere rebus honorem...
第 158 頁 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
第 146 頁 - Cato, he brought it to me ; desired to have my sincere opinion of it, and left it with me for three or four days. I gave him my opinion sincerely, which was, " that I thought he had better not act it, and that he would get reputation enough, by only printing it.
第 162 頁 - M great man operated very strongly in him in the very beginning of his life, and continued to the very end of it. One day as he was looking over some papers in his scrutoire with Lord Cadogan, he opened one of the little drawers, took out a green purse, and turned some broad pieces out of it, and after viewing them for some time with a satisfaction that appeared very visible in his face, " Cadogan (says he), observe these pieces well ; they deserve to be observed.
書目資訊
| 書名 | Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men |
| 作者 | Joseph Spence |
| 編者 | Edmond Malone |
| 出版者 | J. Murray, 1820 |
| 來源： | 牛津大學 |
| 已數位化 | 2007年8月2日 |
| 頁數 | 302 頁 |
| 匯出書目資料 | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |