Life. Poems. Irene, a tragedyNichols and Son, 1801 |
常見字詞
ABDALLA Addiſon Afpafia aſked ASPASIA aſſiſtance beauty beſt breaſt buſineſs CALI CARAZA cauſe charms cloſe converſation courſe death DEMETRIUS deſign eaſe Engliſh eſſays eſt eſtabliſhed ev'ry eyes faid fame fate fatire firſt flaves fome foon foul friendſhip fuch Garrick greatneſs Greece HASAN Heav'n Hiſtory honour hope houſe IRENE Johnſon juſt labours laſt LEONTIUS leſs Lichfield Lord MAHOMET mihi mind moſt muſt MUSTAPHA nunc o'er obſerved occafion paffion paſſage paſſion pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe preſent preſs publiſhed quæ quod rage reaſon reſt riſe SAMUEL JOHNSON ſays SCENE ſcenes ſcheme ſcorn ſee ſeems ſeveral ſhades Shakſpeare ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhews ſhine ſhore ſhort ſhould Sir John Hawkins ſky ſmile ſome ſpeech ſpirit ſpread ſpring ſtage ſtate ſtill ſtroke ſtyle ſubject ſuch Sultan ſword thee theſe thine thoſe thou thought tibi tion tranflation Univerſity uſed verſes virtue vitæ whoſe wiſh
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第 75 頁 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
第 17 頁 - And scarce a sycophant was fed by pride; Where ne'er was known the form of mock debate, Or seen a new-made mayor's unwieldy state; Where change of fav'rites made no change of laws, And senates heard before they judg'da cause; How wouldst thou shake at Britain's modish tribe, Dart the quick taunt, and edge the piercing gibe?
第 18 頁 - And smok'd in kitchens, or in auctions sold, To better features yields the frame of gold; For now no more we trace in ev'ry line Heroic worth, benevolence divine: The form distorted justifies the fall, And detestation rids th
第 77 頁 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
第 77 頁 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
第 77 頁 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
第 76 頁 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
第 22 頁 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
第 76 頁 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
第 6 頁 - What check restrain your thirst of pow'r and gold ? Behold rebellious virtue quite o'erthrown, Behold our fame, our wealth, our lives your own. To such, a groaning nation's spoils are giv'n, When public crimes...