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Pagina 6
... Hence a foundation for reasoning upon the taste of any individual , and for paffing fentence upon it : where it is con- formable to principles , we can pronounce with certainty that it is correct ; otherwife , that it is incorrect ...
... Hence a foundation for reasoning upon the taste of any individual , and for paffing fentence upon it : where it is con- formable to principles , we can pronounce with certainty that it is correct ; otherwife , that it is incorrect ...
Pagina 11
... to calmness and fedatenefs . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafte . Upon a man pof felfed Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reason : INTRODUCTION . If.
... to calmness and fedatenefs . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafte . Upon a man pof felfed Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reason : INTRODUCTION . If.
Pagina 22
... hence it is , that accurate judgment is not friend- ly to declamation or copious eloquence . This reafoning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a noted obfervation , That a great or comprehen- five memory is feldom connected with a ...
... hence it is , that accurate judgment is not friend- ly to declamation or copious eloquence . This reafoning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a noted obfervation , That a great or comprehen- five memory is feldom connected with a ...
Pagina 26
... hence the fingular beauty of smoke \ ascending in a calm morning . I am extremely fenfible of the disgust men ge- nerally have to abstract speculation ; and I would avoid it altogether , if it could be done in a work that profeffes to ...
... hence the fingular beauty of smoke \ ascending in a calm morning . I am extremely fenfible of the disgust men ge- nerally have to abstract speculation ; and I would avoid it altogether , if it could be done in a work that profeffes to ...
Pagina 27
... Hence it is required in every fuch work , that , like an organic fyftem , its parts be orderly arranged and mutually con- nected , bearing each of them a relation to the whole , fome more intimate , fome lefs , according to their ...
... Hence it is required in every fuch work , that , like an organic fyftem , its parts be orderly arranged and mutually con- nected , bearing each of them a relation to the whole , fome more intimate , fome lefs , according to their ...
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Pagina 287 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 157 - I did hear him groan ; Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Pagina 156 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Pagina 283 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Pagina 162 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Pagina 74 - O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Pagina 510 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pagina 221 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pagina 136 - Out upon her ! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise ; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
Pagina 161 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!