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 Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volumen1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 páginas |
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... ingenious parallel be- tween poetry and painting ; they are , being Monday and Wednesday papers , the composition of Sir Richard ; and , as specimens of his diction and manner , I shall select , from the first PERIODICAL PAPERS . 21.
... ingenious parallel be- tween poetry and painting ; they are , being Monday and Wednesday papers , the composition of Sir Richard ; and , as specimens of his diction and manner , I shall select , from the first PERIODICAL PAPERS . 21.
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... diction usually employed by the Freethinker is easy and perspicuous ; and I am persuaded that a very interesting selection might be made from his volumes . 13. THE PATRICIAN . The first number of this political paper was printed on ...
... diction usually employed by the Freethinker is easy and perspicuous ; and I am persuaded that a very interesting selection might be made from his volumes . 13. THE PATRICIAN . The first number of this political paper was printed on ...
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... 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 high - wrought imaginable , and 1 yet , like the brilliancy of a diamond , exceeding 108 ENUMERATION OF.
... 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 high - wrought imaginable , and 1 yet , like the brilliancy of a diamond , exceeding 108 ENUMERATION OF.
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... diction of " London , " this last line is a striking example ; for the origi- nal , though strong in its expression , is less terse and happy : Haud facile emergunt , quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi . The Spaniards had at this ...
... diction of " London , " this last line is a striking example ; for the origi- nal , though strong in its expression , is less terse and happy : Haud facile emergunt , quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi . The Spaniards had at this ...
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... diction vigorous and splendid ; of sentiment morally correct and phi- losophically beautiful ; but its fable is without interest , its characters without discrimination , and neither terror nor pity is excited . If it fail , however ...
... diction vigorous and splendid ; of sentiment morally correct and phi- losophically beautiful ; but its fable is without interest , its characters without discrimination , and neither terror nor pity is excited . If it fail , however ...
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Página 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Página 134 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Página 398 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
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 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 301 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 193 - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Página 330 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
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.