Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2T. Davies, 1774 - 375 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... History oc- cafionally interfpersed ; that , by this Catalogue , we may inform Pofterity of the Excellence and Value of this great Collection , and promote the Knowledge of fcarce Books , and elegant Editions . For this Purpose Men of ...
... History oc- cafionally interfpersed ; that , by this Catalogue , we may inform Pofterity of the Excellence and Value of this great Collection , and promote the Knowledge of fcarce Books , and elegant Editions . For this Purpose Men of ...
Pagina 13
... literary Tranf actions of paft Ages , may find in Catalogues , like this at least , fuch an Account as is given by Annalists , and Chronologers of Civil History . How • How the Knowledge of the Sacred Writings has been HARLEIAN LIBRARY .
... literary Tranf actions of paft Ages , may find in Catalogues , like this at least , fuch an Account as is given by Annalists , and Chronologers of Civil History . How • How the Knowledge of the Sacred Writings has been HARLEIAN LIBRARY .
Pagina 15
... History has been confidered with the Regard due to that Study by which the Manners are most easily formed , and from which the most efficacious In- ftruction is received ; nor will the moft extensive Cu- riofity fail of Gratification in ...
... History has been confidered with the Regard due to that Study by which the Manners are most easily formed , and from which the most efficacious In- ftruction is received ; nor will the moft extensive Cu- riofity fail of Gratification in ...
Pagina 16
... History , but Poetry , with Gothic Antiquities , and Runic Infcriptions ; which at least have this Claim to Veneration , above the Remains of the Roman Magnificence , that they are the Works of thofe Heroes , by whom the Roman Empire ...
... History , but Poetry , with Gothic Antiquities , and Runic Infcriptions ; which at least have this Claim to Veneration , above the Remains of the Roman Magnificence , that they are the Works of thofe Heroes , by whom the Roman Empire ...
Pagina 17
... History , which begins with the Reign of King Charles the Firft , and ends with the Refloration , will almost furnish a Library alone , fuch is the Number of Vo- Jumes , Pamphlets , and Papers , which were pub lifhed by either Party ...
... History , which begins with the Reign of King Charles the Firft , and ends with the Refloration , will almost furnish a Library alone , fuch is the Number of Vo- Jumes , Pamphlets , and Papers , which were pub lifhed by either Party ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 62 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Pagina 282 - 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.
Pagina 37 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Pagina 113 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. 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.
Pagina 86 - There is, however, proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature.
Pagina 32 - To explain requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition.
Pagina 71 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Pagina 77 - 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.
Pagina 99 - The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.
Pagina 282 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...