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Pagina 21
... able not only to improve them , but to point out their defects , it ought to be remembered that he wrote without those helps from combined taste and skill which they now enjoy . " It is not uncommon for those , who have grown wise by ...
... able not only to improve them , but to point out their defects , it ought to be remembered that he wrote without those helps from combined taste and skill which they now enjoy . " It is not uncommon for those , who have grown wise by ...
Pagina 22
... able for lofty periods and splendid imagery , verg- ing sometimes on the excellence of poetry , and sometimes on the ostentation of bombast . The writers of Queen Anne's reign are oftener , therefore , approved than imitated ; we are ...
... able for lofty periods and splendid imagery , verg- ing sometimes on the excellence of poetry , and sometimes on the ostentation of bombast . The writers of Queen Anne's reign are oftener , therefore , approved than imitated ; we are ...
Pagina 25
... able to follow their own canons . Of this Dr. Blair himself affords a remarkable instance . Not- withstanding the long labour he had bestowed on his " Lectures on Rhetoric , " the perpetual revision to which they were subjected , and ...
... able to follow their own canons . Of this Dr. Blair himself affords a remarkable instance . Not- withstanding the long labour he had bestowed on his " Lectures on Rhetoric , " the perpetual revision to which they were subjected , and ...
Pagina 31
... able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? " 9 The same fact has been related by others in coarser language , and with an apparent design to depreciate a character not easily assailable in other points . That ...
... able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? " 9 The same fact has been related by others in coarser language , and with an apparent design to depreciate a character not easily assailable in other points . That ...
Pagina 37
... able speaker . During the rebellion , in 1715 , he discharged the service hitherto entrusted to a field - officer , of trans- porting the troops from Ireland to Scotland , with great ability and integrity . In 1717 he was pro- moted by ...
... able speaker . During the rebellion , in 1715 , he discharged the service hitherto entrusted to a field - officer , of trans- porting the troops from Ireland to Scotland , with great ability and integrity . In 1717 he was pro- moted by ...
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Pagina 143 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Pagina 81 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pagina 290 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Pagina 84 - I am very well versed in the theory of an husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them, as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Pagina 309 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Pagina 279 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Pagina 524 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Pagina 428 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Pagina 82 - Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Pagina 87 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger.