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, 第 1 巻J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 ページ |
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... opinion few will probably assent ; and though the recom- mendation of the Doctor has introduced this work into the body of our English Poetry , we may venture to predict that it will not long main- tain its station . Splendid as the ...
... opinion few will probably assent ; and though the recom- mendation of the Doctor has introduced this work into the body of our English Poetry , we may venture to predict that it will not long main- tain its station . Splendid as the ...
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... opinion of Hughes , that , had not Sir Richard been unexpectedly di- verted from the prosecution of the plan , the work would have gained its share of popularity , and might have been continued with credit and ad- vantage to its authors ...
... opinion of Hughes , that , had not Sir Richard been unexpectedly di- verted from the prosecution of the plan , the work would have gained its share of popularity , and might have been continued with credit and ad- vantage to its authors ...
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... opinion , that those volumes had exhausted all the wit and humour the subject was capable of , as that the merits of Steele and Addison are above comparison and imitation . - " But there's a sort of craft attending vice and absurdity ...
... opinion , that those volumes had exhausted all the wit and humour the subject was capable of , as that the merits of Steele and Addison are above comparison and imitation . - " But there's a sort of craft attending vice and absurdity ...
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... the fifth , the author , while speaking with approbation of pro- perly regulated dramatic exhibitions , expresses an opinion of Shakspeare's merit , which does . 66 honour to her taste and discrimination , and , PERIODICAL PAPERS . 93.
... the fifth , the author , while speaking with approbation of pro- perly regulated dramatic exhibitions , expresses an opinion of Shakspeare's merit , which does . 66 honour to her taste and discrimination , and , PERIODICAL PAPERS . 93.
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... opinion , that " every man should try to collect one book in that manner , and present it to a public library . " * " Nothing , " remarks Mr. Be- loe , " could be more honourable , or perhaps more useful to a nation , than a great ...
... opinion , that " every man should try to collect one book in that manner , and present it to a public library . " * " Nothing , " remarks Mr. Be- loe , " could be more honourable , or perhaps more useful to a nation , than a great ...
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331 ページ - 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,
134 ページ - 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.
398 ページ - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
301 ページ - 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.
367 ページ - 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.
332 ページ - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
301 ページ - 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...
193 ページ - 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.
330 ページ - 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...
248 ページ - 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.