Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 pagina's |
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... language and the changes it had undergone from the earliest times to his age , and from his to the present . With ... English . 7. " A Collection of Letters , translated from the modern writers , with some account of the several ...
... language and the changes it had undergone from the earliest times to his age , and from his to the present . With ... English . 7. " A Collection of Letters , translated from the modern writers , with some account of the several ...
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... English authors . 37. " Poetical Dictionary of the English tongue . 38. " Considerations upon the present state of London . 39. " Collection of Epigrams , with notes and observations . 40. " Observations on the English language , relating ...
... English authors . 37. " Poetical Dictionary of the English tongue . 38. " Considerations upon the present state of London . 39. " Collection of Epigrams , with notes and observations . 40. " Observations on the English language , relating ...
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... English composition during the reign of Henry VIII . justly entitled him to ... language ; " and , in this he has , for the most part , happily succeeded ... language , into the interior parts of Europe , the art of printing had ...
... English composition during the reign of Henry VIII . justly entitled him to ... language ; " and , in this he has , for the most part , happily succeeded ... language , into the interior parts of Europe , the art of printing had ...
Pagina 189
... language and composition , has fixed a new era in the annals of English literature . Thirty - six years had now elapsed since the close LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 189.
... language and composition , has fixed a new era in the annals of English literature . Thirty - six years had now elapsed since the close LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 189.
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... language . It will , therefore , be a subject both of curiosity and utility , not only to offer a few observations ... English style , from the year LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 211.
... language . It will , therefore , be a subject both of curiosity and utility , not only to offer a few observations ... English style , from the year LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 211.
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Pagina 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Pagina 134 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Pagina 398 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Pagina 301 - 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 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Pagina 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
Pagina 301 - 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...
Pagina 193 - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Pagina 330 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
Pagina 248 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.