The RamblerJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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Pagina 15
... use , and which produce the resemblance generally obfervable among cotempo- raries . So that in books which beft deserve the name of originals , there is little new beyond the difpofition of materials already provided ; the fame ideas ...
... use , and which produce the resemblance generally obfervable among cotempo- raries . So that in books which beft deserve the name of originals , there is little new beyond the difpofition of materials already provided ; the fame ideas ...
Pagina 18
... use of them as an act by which any parti- cular writer is defpoiled of his garland ; for they may be faid to have been planted by the ancients in the open road of poetry for the accommodation of their fucceffors , and to be the right of ...
... use of them as an act by which any parti- cular writer is defpoiled of his garland ; for they may be faid to have been planted by the ancients in the open road of poetry for the accommodation of their fucceffors , and to be the right of ...
Pagina 29
... use- fulness , agriculture is undoubtedly the firft and noblest fcience ; yet we see the plow driven , the clod broken , the manure spread , the feeds scattered , and the harvest reaped , by men whom those that feed upon their in ...
... use- fulness , agriculture is undoubtedly the firft and noblest fcience ; yet we see the plow driven , the clod broken , the manure spread , the feeds scattered , and the harvest reaped , by men whom those that feed upon their in ...
Pagina 32
... uses more adequate to the purposes of com- mon life than more pompous and durable volumes . If it is neceffary for ... use , every writer ought to have his patron's ; and fince no man , however high he may now stand , can be certain ...
... uses more adequate to the purposes of com- mon life than more pompous and durable volumes . If it is neceffary for ... use , every writer ought to have his patron's ; and fince no man , however high he may now stand , can be certain ...
Pagina 69
... use , through the whole fubordination of human life . It has yet happened that among the numerous writers which our nation has produced , equal per- haps always in force and genius , and of late in ele- gance and accuracy , to thofe of ...
... use , through the whole fubordination of human life . It has yet happened that among the numerous writers which our nation has produced , equal per- haps always in force and genius , and of late in ele- gance and accuracy , to thofe of ...
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Pagina 99 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Pagina 263 - From this pacific and harmless temper, thus propitious to others and ourselves, to domestic tranquillity and to social happiness, no man is withheld but by pride, by the fear of being insulted by his adversary, or despised by the world. It may be laid down as an unfailing and universal axiom, that " all pride is abject and mean.
Pagina 20 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Pagina 17 - In the small compass of a grave: In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own.
Pagina 262 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Pagina 263 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Pagina 252 - ... to balance the guilt by which it is obtained. I have hitherto avoided that dangerous and empirical morality, which cures one vice by means of another.
Pagina 227 - ... disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect. The disposition to derision and insult, is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mien ; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.
Pagina 393 - 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.
Pagina 395 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.