An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 pages |
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... honour , generosity , and va- lour ; and displays much wit , humour , and erudition . If we admit this enco- mium in its fullest extent ( which I am very far from doing ) , it will only prove that the novel is the more dangerous ...
... honour , generosity , and va- lour ; and displays much wit , humour , and erudition . If we admit this enco- mium in its fullest extent ( which I am very far from doing ) , it will only prove that the novel is the more dangerous ...
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... destroyer of domestic peace , but of none whereby female honour or hap- piness can be secured . The advocates of light reading may assert , that young persons of any re- spectability run it over merely as a pastime ; and 108.
... destroyer of domestic peace , but of none whereby female honour or hap- piness can be secured . The advocates of light reading may assert , that young persons of any re- spectability run it over merely as a pastime ; and 108.
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... was with transcendant abi- lities , struggling with the pains of indi- gence and obscurity ; a lover of ease , and possessed of appetites which im- pelled him strongly to the pursuit of pleasure ; yet , to his immortal honour , stood 132.
... was with transcendant abi- lities , struggling with the pains of indi- gence and obscurity ; a lover of ease , and possessed of appetites which im- pelled him strongly to the pursuit of pleasure ; yet , to his immortal honour , stood 132.
Page 133
... honour , stood firm in the cause of VIRTUE ; and , disdaining to rescue himself from po- verty by the prostitution of his great and versatile talents , to the base services of impurity , personal abuse , or party rancour , merited the ...
... honour , stood firm in the cause of VIRTUE ; and , disdaining to rescue himself from po- verty by the prostitution of his great and versatile talents , to the base services of impurity , personal abuse , or party rancour , merited the ...
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... English , Smith - Hill ) in the county of Roscommon , contend for that honour ; and notwithstanding I have travelled many miles to inquire of the bard's relations , as well as of < some of the oldest inhabitants of three counties , 137.
... English , Smith - Hill ) in the county of Roscommon , contend for that honour ; and notwithstanding I have travelled many miles to inquire of the bard's relations , as well as of < some of the oldest inhabitants of three counties , 137.
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Page 176 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
Page 175 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 168 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; — The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain — A new creation rescued from his reign.
Page 167 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The...
Page 181 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
Page 188 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
Page 174 - As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 189 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
Page 183 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.
Page 188 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.