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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Pagina 17
... passages of some literary merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and abuse with which they were indiscriminately overwhelmed . He ac- quired , however , no inconsiderable share of fame by his first epic ...
... passages of some literary merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and abuse with which they were indiscriminately overwhelmed . He ac- quired , however , no inconsiderable share of fame by his first epic ...
Pagina 20
... passage , Sir Richard has formed a club consisting of six characters , who , retiring to a house in the country , assemble twice a week for the purpose of reading and discussing the merits of various essays , of their own composition ...
... passage , Sir Richard has formed a club consisting of six characters , who , retiring to a house in the country , assemble twice a week for the purpose of reading and discussing the merits of various essays , of their own composition ...
Pagina 22
... passages . “ With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this wide theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches , and how rich and beautiful is her ...
... passages . “ With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this wide theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches , and how rich and beautiful is her ...
Pagina 131
... passage , one of the finest in the poem , and especially its concluding line , which the author distinguished by capitals , without deeply entering • into , and severely sympathising with , the feelings LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 131.
... passage , one of the finest in the poem , and especially its concluding line , which the author distinguished by capitals , without deeply entering • into , and severely sympathising with , the feelings LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 131.
Pagina 138
... passages which illustrate this remark , and which , for their moral excellence , should dwell upon the memory , I shall in this place adduce two , in conception and in execution alike happy . Demetrius , addressing the aged Visier Cali ...
... passages which illustrate this remark , and which , for their moral excellence , should dwell upon the memory , I shall in this place adduce two , in conception and in execution alike happy . Demetrius , addressing the aged Visier Cali ...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1 Nathan Drake Volledige weergave - 1809 |
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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.