Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, 第 2 巻T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1774 |
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... perform . Yet his labou though deficient may be useful . with the hope of this inferior pra he must incite his activity & -lace his weariness . Perfection is unattainable , but nearer & nearer approaches may be made & finding my ...
... perform . Yet his labou though deficient may be useful . with the hope of this inferior pra he must incite his activity & -lace his weariness . Perfection is unattainable , but nearer & nearer approaches may be made & finding my ...
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... performed without any higher Quality than that of bearing Burthens with dull Patience , and beating the Track of the Alphabet with fluggifli Refolution . Whether this Opinion , fo long tranfmitted , and fo widely propagated , had its ...
... performed without any higher Quality than that of bearing Burthens with dull Patience , and beating the Track of the Alphabet with fluggifli Refolution . Whether this Opinion , fo long tranfmitted , and fo widely propagated , had its ...
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... performed , it will be neceffary to enquire how our Primitives are to be deduced from foreign Languages , which may be often very fuccefsfully performed by the Affiftance of our own Etymologifts . This Search will give Oc- cafion D4 ...
... performed , it will be neceffary to enquire how our Primitives are to be deduced from foreign Languages , which may be often very fuccefsfully performed by the Affiftance of our own Etymologifts . This Search will give Oc- cafion D4 ...
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... performed it will be equivalent to the Propofal made by Boileau to the Academicians , that they should review all their polite Writers , and correct fuch Impurities as might be found in them , that their Authority might not contribute ...
... performed it will be equivalent to the Propofal made by Boileau to the Academicians , that they should review all their polite Writers , and correct fuch Impurities as might be found in them , that their Authority might not contribute ...
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... perform . Some Words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not underftand them ; thefe might have been omitted very often with little Inconvenience ; but I would not fo far indulge my Vanity as to de- cline this Confeffion ...
... perform . Some Words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not underftand them ; thefe might have been omitted very often with little Inconvenience ; but I would not fo far indulge my Vanity as to de- cline this Confeffion ...
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318 ページ - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
203 ページ - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
316 ページ - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
98 ページ - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
149 ページ - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
320 ページ - Improve his heady rage with treach'rous skill, And mould his passions till they make his will..
98 ページ - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
84 ページ - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
113 ページ - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
297 ページ - ... mind ; which in his case, as in the case of all who are distressed with the same malady of imagination, transfers to others its own feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, 'Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind.