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Pagina 6
... endeavours to diflodge figns from their hooks : there are many " hair - breadth ' fcapes , " besides thofe in the " imminent deadly breach ; " but the rake's life , though it be equally hazardous with that of the foldier , is neither ...
... endeavours to diflodge figns from their hooks : there are many " hair - breadth ' fcapes , " besides thofe in the " imminent deadly breach ; " but the rake's life , though it be equally hazardous with that of the foldier , is neither ...
Pagina 10
... endeavours had been ineffectual , Mr. Squeeze having no good opinion of my life : but that there was one expedient remaining ; Mrs , Squeeze could influence her husband , and her good - will might be gained by a compliment . I waited ...
... endeavours had been ineffectual , Mr. Squeeze having no good opinion of my life : but that there was one expedient remaining ; Mrs , Squeeze could influence her husband , and her good - will might be gained by a compliment . I waited ...
Pagina 19
... endeavours after great attainments . These ftimulations of honeft rivalry are , perhaps , the chief effects of academies and focieties ; for what- ever be the bulk of their joint labours , every fingle piece is always the production of ...
... endeavours after great attainments . These ftimulations of honeft rivalry are , perhaps , the chief effects of academies and focieties ; for what- ever be the bulk of their joint labours , every fingle piece is always the production of ...
Pagina 40
... endeavours to foften his creditor , fent his wife to folicit that affift- ance which never was refufed . The tears and im- portunity of female diftrefs were more than was ne- ceffary to move the heart of Serenus ; he hasted im ...
... endeavours to foften his creditor , fent his wife to folicit that affift- ance which never was refufed . The tears and im- portunity of female diftrefs were more than was ne- ceffary to move the heart of Serenus ; he hasted im ...
Pagina 48
... endeavours after it , in the formation of fchemes that cannot be executed , and in the contemplation of profpects which cannot be approached . Such is the general dream in which we all flumber out our time every man thinks the day ...
... endeavours after it , in the formation of fchemes that cannot be executed , and in the contemplation of profpects which cannot be approached . Such is the general dream in which we all flumber out our time every man thinks the day ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Pagina 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Pagina 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Pagina 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Pagina 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Pagina 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Pagina 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Pagina 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Pagina 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Pagina 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.