The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill, Volume 14Belt and Daldy, 1866 - 323 pages |
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Page 186 - revenge by introducing into his next edition of the Dunciad, after Pope's death, a note on the following lines in the fourth book of that poem:— Next bidding all draw near on bended knees, The queen confers her titles and degrees; Her children first of more distinguished sort, Who study Shakespeare at the inns of court.
Page 18 - Loves, hates, and rages, triumphs, and complains His easy vacant face proclaim'da heart Which could not feel emotions, nor impart. With him came mighty Davies. On my life, That Davies hath a very pretty wife:— Statesman all over !—in plots famous grown !— He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. Next Holland came,—with truly tragic stalk
Page 10 - Melting like ghosts before the rising day. With that low cunning, which in fools supplies, And amply too, the place of being wise, Which Nature, kind, indulgent parent! gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave; 120 With that smooth falsehood, whose appearance charms, And reason of each wholesome doubt disarms; Which to the lowest depths of
Page 16 - The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through Nature at a single view : A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before,
Page 60 - player at Goodman's Fields. He plays all parts, and is a very good mimic. His acting I have seen, and may say to you who will not tell it again here, I see nothing wonderful in it, but it is heresy to say so; the Duke of Argyle says he is superior to Betterton.
Page 54 - His eyes, in gloomy socket taught to roll, Proclaim'd the sullen " habit of his soul:" Heavy and phlegmatic he trod the stage, Too proud for tenderness, too dull for rage. When Hector's lovely widow shines in tears, Or Rowe's gay rake dependent virtue jeers, With the same cast of features he is seen
Page 55 - He could not, for a moment, sink the man. In whate'er cast his character was laid, Self still, like oil, upon the surface play'd. Nature, in spite of all his skill, crept in: Horatio, Dorax, Falstaff,—still 'twas Quin. Next follows Sheridan;—a doubtful name, As yet unsettled in the rank of fame:
Page 84 - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow. Hence, to old women with your boasted rules ! Stale traps, and only sacred now to fools; As well may sons of physic hope to find One medicine, as one hour, for
Page 84 - Allot a longer or a shorter date, I'll make them live, as brother should with brother, And keep them in good humour with each other. The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill.
Page xxvi - To be sure, he is a tree that cannot produce good fruit: he only bears crabs. But, sir, a tree that produces a great many crabs is better than a tree which produces only a few.