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Pagina 19
... look for readers beyond the select circle of their aristocratic patrons ; and the book- seller , who had hitherto calculated his profits merely by the commission he might obtain on the sale of books , soon perceived that they were ...
... look for readers beyond the select circle of their aristocratic patrons ; and the book- seller , who had hitherto calculated his profits merely by the commission he might obtain on the sale of books , soon perceived that they were ...
Pagina 24
... looks , deep sighs , tragical gestures , and other passionate interjections of holiness could express . Allah , allah ! ' was their doleful note , their sustenance the people's alms . " And when these impostors had inveigled the King of ...
... looks , deep sighs , tragical gestures , and other passionate interjections of holiness could express . Allah , allah ! ' was their doleful note , their sustenance the people's alms . " And when these impostors had inveigled the King of ...
Pagina 34
... look after mixed wit among the Greeks we shall find it nowhere but in the epigrammatists . There are indeed some strokes of it in the little poem ascribed to Musæus , which by that , as well as many other marks , betrays itself to be a ...
... look after mixed wit among the Greeks we shall find it nowhere but in the epigrammatists . There are indeed some strokes of it in the little poem ascribed to Musæus , which by that , as well as many other marks , betrays itself to be a ...
Pagina 35
William John Courthope. be a modern composition . If we look into the Latin writers we find none of this mixed wit in Virgil , Lucretius , or Catullus ; very little in Horace , but a great deal of it in Ovid , and scarce anything else in ...
William John Courthope. be a modern composition . If we look into the Latin writers we find none of this mixed wit in Virgil , Lucretius , or Catullus ; very little in Horace , but a great deal of it in Ovid , and scarce anything else in ...
Pagina 36
... look upon the Church as his future sphere . In his Account of the Greatest English Poets , he says : - " I leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practise them with more success . Of greater truths I'll now propose to tell ...
... look upon the Church as his future sphere . In his Account of the Greatest English Poets , he says : - " I leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practise them with more success . Of greater truths I'll now propose to tell ...
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Pagina 129 - I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream...
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 143 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Pagina 128 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
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 177 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
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 94 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Pagina 3 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...