Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler ; and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eight Volume of the Spectator and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volumen1J. Seeley, 1809 |
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Página 49
... speak sentences , and say things ' worth the hearing . John Dryden took his place very solemnly every evening at Will's , which is VOL . IV . E remembered and duly honoured for his sake , to this PERIODICAL PAPERS . 49.
... speak sentences , and say things ' worth the hearing . John Dryden took his place very solemnly every evening at Will's , which is VOL . IV . E remembered and duly honoured for his sake , to this PERIODICAL PAPERS . 49.
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... things were told of him , made him be taken notice of by a neighbour- ing gentleman of a good estate , who , when he saw him with his father in the field , would often call to him and talk to him . " This worthy person thought it a pity ...
... things were told of him , made him be taken notice of by a neighbour- ing gentleman of a good estate , who , when he saw him with his father in the field , would often call to him and talk to him . " This worthy person thought it a pity ...
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... thing he found others eager to be spectators of ; but his master overlooked this in him , in con- sideration of his good qualities , and they agreed extremely well the whole time they were together . -His apprenticeship being expired ...
... thing he found others eager to be spectators of ; but his master overlooked this in him , in con- sideration of his good qualities , and they agreed extremely well the whole time they were together . -His apprenticeship being expired ...
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... thing to give him , he should not have had any comfort in life , if prolonged by the ruin of so dutiful a child , and that he was only grieved at the disgrace which the crime he suffered for must entail on him.- He told him that it was ...
... thing to give him , he should not have had any comfort in life , if prolonged by the ruin of so dutiful a child , and that he was only grieved at the disgrace which the crime he suffered for must entail on him.- He told him that it was ...
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... thing of the kind ever published in this kingdom , some of the SPECTA- TORS excepted - if indeed they may be excepted . We own ourselves unequal to the task of com- mending such a work up to its merits - where the diction is the most ...
... thing of the kind ever published in this kingdom , some of the SPECTA- TORS excepted - if indeed they may be excepted . We own ourselves unequal to the task of com- mending such a work up to its merits - where the diction is the most ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aaron Hill Addison admirable appeared beauty biographical booksellers Boswell Boswell's catalogue Cato's Letters celebrated character Cicero collection commenced composition contributed correct critical death defects degree diction Dictionary Dunciad edition elegant English English Language entituled essays excellence favour genius Gentleman's Magazine given honour humour Idler imagination imitation Isaac Bickerstaff Journal justly labour language Latin learning letter Lichfield likewise literary literature Lives London Lord Lord Chesterfield manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never observes occasion occasionally octavo opinion original passage passion periodical papers perspicuous poem poetical poetry poets political Pope possess powers praise Preface printed production published racter Rambler Rasselas reader remarks Samuel Johnson satire satire of Juvenal says sentiments Shakspeare shew Sir John Hawkins soon specimens Spectator spirit Steele style taste Tatler thought tion translation volume writer written
Pasajes populares
Página 339 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 301 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 248 - 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.
Página 330 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water," and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 132 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Página 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
Página 167 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Página 338 - ... author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great...
Página 368 - He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.