The Life of Richard Cumberland, Esq: Embracing a Critical Examination of His Various Writings. With an Occasional Literary Inquiry Into the Age in which He Lived, and the Contemporaries with Whom He FlourishedSherwood, Neely and Jones, 1812 - 621 pages |
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... soon turned aside , and directed his views towards the church ; a patroness equally capricious , perhaps , in the disposition of her favours . He diligently applied himself to the requisite studies , and soon obtained a living , to the ...
... soon turned aside , and directed his views towards the church ; a patroness equally capricious , perhaps , in the disposition of her favours . He diligently applied himself to the requisite studies , and soon obtained a living , to the ...
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... soon obtained a living , to the sequestered privacy of which he retired , attentive to his duties , and without a wish to change . The unaffected piety of his manners , and the zealous discharge of his office made him loved and ...
... soon obtained a living , to the sequestered privacy of which he retired , attentive to his duties , and without a wish to change . The unaffected piety of his manners , and the zealous discharge of his office made him loved and ...
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... soon as he was of age to hold it . From this pe- riod he fixed his constant residence in that retired and tranquil spot , and sedulously devoted himself to the duties of his function . When I contemplate the character of this amiable ...
... soon as he was of age to hold it . From this pe- riod he fixed his constant residence in that retired and tranquil spot , and sedulously devoted himself to the duties of his function . When I contemplate the character of this amiable ...
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... soon wiped off ; and when he once began to move , it was with rapidity . He de- scribes himself as being involved in a confusion of ideas , natural to a young mind , when he first read the 115th psalm , which records the destruction of ...
... soon wiped off ; and when he once began to move , it was with rapidity . He de- scribes himself as being involved in a confusion of ideas , natural to a young mind , when he first read the 115th psalm , which records the destruction of ...
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... soon recovered the good opinion of Kins- man , by his diligence and regularity . About this time Bentley died , and Cumberland , who was old enough to know something of the loss of such a man , lamented it with as much sorrow as can ...
... soon recovered the good opinion of Kins- man , by his diligence and regularity . About this time Bentley died , and Cumberland , who was old enough to know something of the loss of such a man , lamented it with as much sorrow as can ...
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Page 327 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 263 - THE Life of Dr. PARNELL is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Page 270 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Page 24 - No pow'rs of body, or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n?
Page 600 - Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
Page 25 - How would he wish that heav'n had left him still The whisp'ring Zephyr, and the purling rill? Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies...
Page 265 - It was upon a proposal started by Edmund Burke, that a party of friends, who had dined together at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, and my house, should meet at the St. James's Coffee-House, which accordingly took place, and was occasionally repeated with much festivity and good fellowship. Dr.
Page 329 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?" BOSWELL: "But why smite his bosom, Sir?" JOHNSON: "Why, to shew he was in earnest
Page 304 - For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
Page 258 - Reynolds was a perfect gentleman, had good sense, great propriety with all the social attributes, and all the graces of hospitality, equal to any man. He well knew how to appreciate men of talents, and how near a-kin the Muse of poetry was to that art, of which he was so eminent a master. From Goldsmith he caught the subject of his famous Ugolino ; what aids he got from others, if he got any, were worthily bestowed and happily applied.