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Pagina 32
... genius . The writers I allude to , are the authors of those little essays which appear in the learned world under the title of ADVERTISE- MENTS . The necessary and ornamental arts of life are equally the objects of the class of authors ...
... genius . The writers I allude to , are the authors of those little essays which appear in the learned world under the title of ADVERTISE- MENTS . The necessary and ornamental arts of life are equally the objects of the class of authors ...
Pagina 44
... genius , or colouring in the works of a painter , whose performances , on the whole , are coarse and irregular . Nothing can be more groundless and unjust than this accusation . I am convinced that , upon a thorough examination , though ...
... genius , or colouring in the works of a painter , whose performances , on the whole , are coarse and irregular . Nothing can be more groundless and unjust than this accusation . I am convinced that , upon a thorough examination , though ...
Pagina 51
... genius of the two people which makes this remarkable difference in their writings , though it may be difficult to discover from what cause it arises . I am inclined to suspect , that there is something in the situation and present ...
... genius of the two people which makes this remarkable difference in their writings , though it may be difficult to discover from what cause it arises . I am inclined to suspect , that there is something in the situation and present ...
Pagina 52
... genius of the people in general , they would naturally have a similar effect upon its authors : the genius of an author commonly takes its direc- tion from that of his countrymen . To these causes , arising from the present situation ...
... genius of the people in general , they would naturally have a similar effect upon its authors : the genius of an author commonly takes its direc- tion from that of his countrymen . To these causes , arising from the present situation ...
Pagina 53
... genius of the Scots writers , and that is , the nature of the language in which they write . The old Scottish dialect is now banished from our books , and the English is substi tuted in its place . But though our books be written in ...
... genius of the Scots writers , and that is , the nature of the language in which they write . The old Scottish dialect is now banished from our books , and the English is substi tuted in its place . But though our books be written in ...
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Pagina 73 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Pagina 156 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Pagina 39 - That care, however, which watched his health was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Pagina 73 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Pagina 159 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Pagina 70 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Pagina 222 - The idea of publishing a periodical paper in Edinburgh, took its rise in a company of gentlemen, whom particular circumstances of connection brought frequently together. Their discourse often turned upon subjects of manners, of taste, and of literature. By one of those accidental resolutions, of which the origin cannot easily be traced, it was determined to put their thoughts into writing, and to read them for the entertainment...
Pagina 217 - Edward's whole tenderness and attention were called forth to mitigate her grief; and, after its first transports had subsided, he carried her to London, in hopes that objects new to her, and commonly attractive to all, might contribute to remove it. With a man possessed of feelings like Sir Edward's, the affliction of Louisa gave a certain respect to his attentions.
Pagina 212 - He could not help expressing some surprise at the appearance of refinement in the conversation of the latter, much beyond what her situation seemed likely to confer. Her father accounted for it. She had received her education in the...
Pagina 154 - Expectancy and Rose of the fair State, ' The Glass of Fashion, and the Mold of Form, 4 Th' observ'd of all Observers,' placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities of his mind serve but to aggravate his distress, and to perplex his conduct.