Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, 第 2 巻B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 ページ |
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... subject , fets him in an ho- nourable view , but seems to me , as a re- proach to our conduct . For the higher his exploits have arifen above his former eftimation , the more muft the world ad- mire him : while your difgrace hath been ...
... subject , fets him in an ho- nourable view , but seems to me , as a re- proach to our conduct . For the higher his exploits have arifen above his former eftimation , the more muft the world ad- mire him : while your difgrace hath been ...
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... subjects . He calls it therefore the parent of elegance and copioufnefs ; and declares , that he owed all the fame of bis eloquence , not to the me- chanic rules of the rhetoricians , but to the enlarged and generous principles of the ...
... subjects . He calls it therefore the parent of elegance and copioufnefs ; and declares , that he owed all the fame of bis eloquence , not to the me- chanic rules of the rhetoricians , but to the enlarged and generous principles of the ...
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... Subject to terror , beyond the conftitutional timidity of her fex , fhe was altogether incapable of decifive counfels , and nothing but her irrefiftible popularity could have fupported her authority amidit the ferment of those ...
... Subject to terror , beyond the conftitutional timidity of her fex , fhe was altogether incapable of decifive counfels , and nothing but her irrefiftible popularity could have fupported her authority amidit the ferment of those ...
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... subject , and men to be my auditors : I could never de- fcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terror , whose interests and opinions I did not un- derstand . " Being now refolved to be a poet , I faw ...
... subject , and men to be my auditors : I could never de- fcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terror , whose interests and opinions I did not un- derstand . " Being now refolved to be a poet , I faw ...
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... subject fupplies . And fuppofe the perfons of the drama wholly fabulous , or of the poet's invention , yet heroic poetry gave him the examples of that invention ; because it was firit , and Homer the common father of the ftage . I know ...
... subject fupplies . And fuppofe the perfons of the drama wholly fabulous , or of the poet's invention , yet heroic poetry gave him the examples of that invention ; because it was firit , and Homer the common father of the ftage . I know ...
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691 ページ - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
791 ページ - When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, he was lying in his bed, with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambric handkerchief beside it.
1041 ページ - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
884 ページ - ... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same...
698 ページ - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
791 ページ - Scripture, said my uncle Toby; and I will shew it thee to-morrow: In the mean time we may depend upon it, Trim, for our comfort, said my uncle Toby, that God Almighty is so good and just a governor of the world, that if we have but done our duties in it, — it will never be enquired into, whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one: I hope not; said the corporal But go on, Trim, said my uncle Toby, with thy story.
842 ページ - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
698 ページ - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
789 ページ - I will answer for thee, cried my uncle Toby : and thou shalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glass of sack thyself, — and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more, if they will do him good. Though I am persuaded...
1022 ページ - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.