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I did with most compleat joy of mind go from the Court with my father home, and away, calling in at Hinchingbroke, and taking leave in three words of my lady, and the young ladies; and so by moonlight to Cambridge, whither we come at about nine o'clock, and took up at the Beare. 15th. Showed Mr. Cooke King's College Chapel, Trinity College, and St.
The royal authority seems to be connected with the young prince even in his father's life-time, by the natural transition of the thought; and still more after his death: So that nothing is more natural than to compleat this union by a new relation, and by putting him actually in possession of what seems so naturally to belong to him.
Shakespeare, whether life or nature be his subject, shews plainly, that he has seen with his own eyes; he gives the image which he receives, not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind; the ignorant feel his representations to be just, and the learned see that they are compleat.
If the importance of the truth be requisite to compleat the pleasure, it is not on account of any considerable addition, which of itself it brings to our enjoyment, but only because it is, in some measure, requisite to fix our attention.
I also liked parts of 'The Compleat Angler, but the best parts I skipped. "With the coming of school days the time for reading was reduced, and it became necessary to make a choice among books.
The compleat explanation of an authour not systematick and consequential, but desultory and vagrant, abounding in casual allusions and light hints, is not to be expected from any single scholiast.
"Smellie Very common noun, absurd person, singular back number, tutor gender, objectionable case governed by the word I," and so da capo. She was the Compleat Governess, on paper, and all that a person entrusted with the training of young children should not be, in reality. She also had the warm and unanimous witness of the children at Monksmead that she was a Beast.
Enter Device. De. Most honor'd Captaine. Un. My compleat Monsier Device, this is a grace to us. You come to visit your Mistres my Cosen. Shall I never get opportunitie with that shee waiter! If I gett her with Child my man Thomas shall marry her. Enter Thomas. Tho. Sir, the Captaine is new alighted. Un. Gett a bottle of sack up to my Chamber presently. La. You are a gentleman of your word. Sis.
Indeed it is a wonderful, a most delightful book, known to the world as "The Compleat Angler," in which, to be sure, one may read something of fish and fishing, but more about old Izaac's lovable self, his sunny streams and shady pools, his buxom milkmaids, and sequestered inns, and his kindly animadversions upon men and things in general.
The same year he published his Translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus, with Rapin's Discourse on Pastorals, as also the Life of Phelopidas, from the Latin of Cornelius Nepos. In Dryden's Translation of Juvenal and Persius, Mr. He also translated into English, the verses before Mr. Quintenay's Compleat Gardiner. The Life of Solon, from the Greek of Plutarch.
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