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Pagina 5
... writer often finds himself , upon his first attempt to address the public in form . All his power of pleasing is damped by solicitude , and his cheerfulness dashed with appre- hension . Impressed with the terrors of the tribunal before ...
... writer often finds himself , upon his first attempt to address the public in form . All his power of pleasing is damped by solicitude , and his cheerfulness dashed with appre- hension . Impressed with the terrors of the tribunal before ...
Pagina 6
... writer , for instance , excels at a plan , or a title page , another works away the body of the book , and a third is a dab at an index . Thus a Magazine is not the result of any single man's industry ; but goes through as many hands as ...
... writer , for instance , excels at a plan , or a title page , another works away the body of the book , and a third is a dab at an index . Thus a Magazine is not the result of any single man's industry ; but goes through as many hands as ...
Pagina 7
... writer is now convinced that he must be chiefly indebted to good fortune for finding readers willing to allow him any degree of reputation . It has been remarked , that almost every character which has excited either attention or praise ...
... writer is now convinced that he must be chiefly indebted to good fortune for finding readers willing to allow him any degree of reputation . It has been remarked , that almost every character which has excited either attention or praise ...
Pagina 21
... writer to M. Voltaire , you were entertained by the king of Prussia as a buffoon , but Maupertuis as a philosopher . It is certain that the preference which this royal scholar gave to Maupertuis was the cause of Voltaire's disagreement ...
... writer to M. Voltaire , you were entertained by the king of Prussia as a buffoon , but Maupertuis as a philosopher . It is certain that the preference which this royal scholar gave to Maupertuis was the cause of Voltaire's disagreement ...
Pagina 31
... Writers of every age have endeavoured to show that plea- sure is in us , and not in the objects offered for our amusement . If the soul be happily disposed , every thing becomes a subject of entertainment , and distress will almost want ...
... Writers of every age have endeavoured to show that plea- sure is in us , and not in the objects offered for our amusement . If the soul be happily disposed , every thing becomes a subject of entertainment , and distress will almost want ...
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acquaintance admiration Alcander amusement ancient animals appearance Asem Bartholomew Fair beauty Caravaggio character Comte de Saxe continued creatures cried curiosity dæmon David Rizzio distress dress edition eloquence endeavour enemy England English entertainment ESSAY Europe expected eyes fancy favour fond fortune France friendship frugality genius gentleman give hand happiness honour humour Hypatia imagination imitation improvement Isaac Reed Italy justice king king of Prussia labour lady language learning liberty lived Lysippus Manetho mankind manner master means merit mind miser nature never obliged observed occasion OLIVER GOLDSMITH once oviparous passion perceived perhaps philosopher pleasing pleasure poet poetry polite poor possessed praise present proper quadrupeds rapture reader replied ridiculous says scarce seems seldom society soon taste Theophilus Cibber thing thought traveller venison virtue whole wisdom writer young
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Pagina 68 - GOOD people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word— From those who spoke her praise. The needy seldom pass'd her door, And always found her kind; She freely lent to all the poor— Who left a pledge behind. She strove the neighbourhood to please With manners wondrous winning; And never follow'd wicked ways— Unless when she was sinning.
Pagina 282 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pagina 276 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pagina 272 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pagina 233 - ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life; but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God ! I enjoy good health, and have no enemy in this world, that I know of, but the French and the justice of peace.
Pagina 61 - ... loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Pagina 62 - The insect I am now describing lived three years.; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Pagina 297 - Nor is this rule without the strongest foundation in nature, as the distresses of the mean by no means affect us so strongly as the calamities of the great. When tragedy exhibits to us some great man fallen from his height, and struggling with want and adversity, we feel his situation in the same manner as we suppose he himself must feel, and our pity is increased in proportion to the height from which he fell.
Pagina 316 - ... whence happiness or calamity is derived, and whence it may be expected; and honestly to lay before the people what inquiry can gather of the past, and conjecture can estimate of the future.
Pagina 149 - The music of the finest singer is dissonance to what I felt when our old dairy-maid sung me into tears with Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night, or the Cruelty of Barbara Allen.