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"Lady Frances wishes Lady C to be made acquainted with you; this is her night, and I therefore enclose you a card. As I dine at House, I shall have an opportunity of making your eloge before your arrival. Your's sincerely, "C. Roseville." I wonder, thought I, as I made my toilet, whether or not Lady Roseville is enamoured with her new correspondent?
This article was first printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1740. The proper spelling is Baratier. The passages referred to in the preceding pages we have printed in italics, for the more easy reference. Translated from an éloge by Fontenelle, and first printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1741. The practice of Dr.
Amongst these were Condorcet's 'Eloge of Haller, Sir Joshua Reynolds' 'Discourses, the writings of Bacon, and 'Burnet's Account of Sir Matthew Hale. The perusal of the last-mentioned book the portrait of a prodigy of labour Horner says, filled him with enthusiasm.
If we are sure that we possess the éloge of Charles V. such as it flowed from the author's pen; if we have not reason to fear that the thoughts have undergone some mutilation, we owe it to the little favour that the discourse of Bailly enjoyed in the sitting of the Academy in 1767. Those thoughts, however, would have defied the most squeamish mind, the most shadowy susceptibility.
Should the French fleet be gone up the Mediterranean, they will proceed on that station; in which case I hope the Cæsar will be one of Sir Alan's squadron. I am well provided for a long cruise. When I shall hear from you, Heaven alone knows! but I am endued with patience, after all our trials. The éloge of Mr.
In the Entretiens politiques et littéraires, under the title, Eloge de Ravachol, Paul Adam wrote: "Whatever may have been the invectives of the bourgeois press and the tenacity of the magistrates in dishonoring the act of the victim, they have not succeeded in persuading us of his error.
It may really seem to us an extraordinary coincidence that the "Éloge" on Hippolyte de Seyres should belong to the very same year, 1743, which saw the publication of Blair's "Grave" and Young's "Night Thoughts."
Each composition shows us the serene, candid, and virtuous mind of the illustrious writer, in a new and true point of view. The éloge of Charles V. was the starting point, followed by a long series of works, and it ought to arrest our attention for a while.
Of Condorcet's 'Eloge of Haller, he said: "I never rise from the account of such men without a sort of thrilling palpitation about me, which I know not whether I should call admiration, ambition, or despair." And speaking of the 'Discourses' of Sir Joshua Reynolds, he said: "Next to the writings of Bacon, there is no book which has more powerfully impelled me to self-culture.
The young gentleman had, indeed, quietly glided out of the cottage as soon as his éloge began. "That young gentleman I can say what I like now he is gone has been so good to us. Many's the half-crown he's given me, and a warm winter coat of his own to my poor rheumatized old man.
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