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Pagina 4
... period of sheer destruction . It . is tacitly assumed by a school of distinguished philo- sophical writers that we have arrived at a stage in the world's history in which it is possible to take a positive and scientific view of human ...
... period of sheer destruction . It . is tacitly assumed by a school of distinguished philo- sophical writers that we have arrived at a stage in the world's history in which it is possible to take a positive and scientific view of human ...
Pagina 13
... period illustrate this general inclination to spurious romance . If ever there was a time when the ideal of monarchy was degraded and the instincts of chivalrous action discouraged , it was in the reign of Charles II . Absorbed as he ...
... period illustrate this general inclination to spurious romance . If ever there was a time when the ideal of monarchy was degraded and the instincts of chivalrous action discouraged , it was in the reign of Charles II . Absorbed as he ...
Pagina 15
... period poured forth their real feelings without reserve in their comedies . So great , indeed , is the gulf that separates our own manners from theirs , that some critics have endeavoured to defend the comic dramatists of the ...
... period poured forth their real feelings without reserve in their comedies . So great , indeed , is the gulf that separates our own manners from theirs , that some critics have endeavoured to defend the comic dramatists of the ...
Pagina 16
... period . It is sufficient , to quote against Lamb the witty and severe criticism of Steele in the Spectator upon Etherege's Man of the Mode : — " It cannot be denied but that the negligence of every- thing which engages the attention of ...
... period . It is sufficient , to quote against Lamb the witty and severe criticism of Steele in the Spectator upon Etherege's Man of the Mode : — " It cannot be denied but that the negligence of every- thing which engages the attention of ...
Pagina 17
... only society which at that period could boast of anything like organisation . The press , which now enables 1 Spectator , No. 65 . C public opinion to exercise so powerful a control over the 1. ] 17 LETTERS AFTER THE RESTORATION .
... only society which at that period could boast of anything like organisation . The press , which now enables 1 Spectator , No. 65 . C public opinion to exercise so powerful a control over the 1. ] 17 LETTERS AFTER THE RESTORATION .
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Pagina 129 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 192 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Pagina 134 - While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Pagina 78 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Pagina 3 - Shalum, just finished for the next day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which...
Pagina 160 - Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors and through walks of kings...
Pagina 67 - And taught the dreadful battle where to rage. — So when an Angel by Divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land — Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past — Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pagina 181 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Pagina 143 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Pagina 48 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around And still I seem to tread on classic ground...