Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers... Literary Reviews and Criticisms - Pagina 181door Prosser Hall Frye - 1908 - 312 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1789 - 508 pagina’s
...endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if poflible, both ways find their account in the Speculation of the day. And to the end that their virtue and difcretion may not be fhort, tranfient, intermitting ftarts of thought, I have refolved to refre/h... | |
| 1803 - 434 pagina’s
...and their diversion useful : For which reason I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...their virtue and discretion may not be short transient intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pagina’s
...intentions into execution. " I shall endeavour," he observes, " to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...virtue and discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories fro'm day to day, till I... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pagina’s
...intentions into execution. " I shall endeavour," he observes, " to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...virtue and discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 pagina’s
...and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...virtue and discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 pagina’s
...and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...account in the speculation of the day. And to the «nd that their virtue and discretion may not be ahort, transient, intermitting starts of thought,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pagina’s
...and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...virtue and discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pagina’s
...and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour. to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...virtue and discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pagina’s
...and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...virtue and discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, until I... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 370 pagina’s
...and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven .morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if...virtue and discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting starts of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have... | |
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