The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone: With Decorations, Τόμος 3J. Dodsley, 1769 |
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Σελίδα 267 - s conduct in regard to my letters to his brother ; and, rather than they should have been so unnecessarily destroyed, would have given more money than it is allowable for me to mention with decency. I look upon my letters as some of my...
Σελίδα 314 - Spence ; extremely polite, friendly, chearful, and mafter of an infinite fund of fubjefts for agreeable converfation. Had my affairs- permitted me, they had certainly drawn me with them into Scotland ; whither they are gone, for about a month, upon a journey of curiofity. I BELIEVE it will give you pleafure to hear that my law-fuit with D — is accommodated, by the generous interpofition of my Lord Stamford ; concerning whofe benevolence and magnanimity It is impoffible for me to fpeak in the terms...
Σελίδα 361 - You have perhaps heard me speak of Mr. Percy — he was * in treaty with Mr. James Dodsley, for the publication of our best old ballads in three volumes. — He has a large folio MS. of ballads, which he...
Σελίδα 359 - Morals, and which are almost wholly mine. I wish to God it may sell ; for he has been at great expence about it. The two rivals which he has to dread, are, the editions of Richardson1 and of Croxall.
Σελίδα 169 - ... Persons of Taste, the Dr. a person of much real Learning', stirred the even tenor of the poet's life, and urged him to new activity. Yet he might have written to them as he did to Graves, 'I think within myself I could proceed if you were here; and yet I have reason to believe if you were here, we should only ramble round the groves and chat away the time; and perhaps that, upon the whole, is of full as much importance'. Dr. Johnson himself contemplated a visit, and letters apparently passed...
Σελίδα 14 - ... the boxes. This learned sage, being asked how he liked the play, made answer, "He could not tell — pretty well, he thought — or indeed as well as any other play — he always took it, that people only came there to see and to be seen — for as for what was said, he owned, he never understood any thing of the matter.
Σελίδα 166 - Poor Mr. Thomson, Mr. Pitt tells me, is dead. He was to have been at Hagley this week, and then I should probably have seen him here. As it is I will erect an urn in Virgil's Grove to his memory. I was really as much shocked to hear of his death, as if I had known and loved him for a number of years. God knows I lean on a very few friends, and if they drop me, I become a wretched misanthrope.
Σελίδα 160 - ... it others; but I have many miles to measure back before I can get into it myself, and no kind of resolution to take a single step. My chief amusements at present are the same they have long been, and lie scattered about my farm. The French have what they call a parque ornee; I suppose, approaching about as near to a garden as the park at Hagley. I give my place the title of a ferme ornee; though, if I had money, I should hardly confine myself to such decorations as that name requires.
Σελίδα 49 - Outing,2 and Mr. Whistler. According to my calculations, we should be a very happy party at a play, coffee-house, or tavern. Do not let your supercilious friends come in upon you with their prudential maxims. Consider, you are now of the proper age for pleasure...
Σελίδα 15 - Verse" is a very good ^thing; if you have not read it, I would recommend it to you as poetical. But now I talk of learning, I must not omit an interview which I accidentally had the other night in company with lord D and one Mr. C . We were taken to sup at a private house, •where I found a person whom I had never seen before. The man behaved exceeding...