Elements of Criticism..Charles Ingham, in Skinner Row, 1772 |
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... reader , in a work like the prefent , cannot fairly expect more than a flight sketch of thofe that make the greatest figure . This talk I attempt the more willingly , as being connected with certain principles in human nature ; and the ...
... reader , in a work like the prefent , cannot fairly expect more than a flight sketch of thofe that make the greatest figure . This talk I attempt the more willingly , as being connected with certain principles in human nature ; and the ...
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... reader , and to make him expect a con- traft in the thought , which upon examination is not found there . A light wife doth make a beary husband . Merchant of Venice . Here is a ftudied oppofition in the words , not only with- out any ...
... reader , and to make him expect a con- traft in the thought , which upon examination is not found there . A light wife doth make a beary husband . Merchant of Venice . Here is a ftudied oppofition in the words , not only with- out any ...
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... reader , that I am now ready to enter upon the rules of arrangement ; beginning with a natural style , and proceeding gradually to what is the moft inverted . And in the arrangement of a period , as well as in a right choice of words ...
... reader , that I am now ready to enter upon the rules of arrangement ; beginning with a natural style , and proceeding gradually to what is the moft inverted . And in the arrangement of a period , as well as in a right choice of words ...
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... reader would fee the notion explained at large , he may find it in the eighth chapter of the fecond book of Mr Lock's effay on human understanding .. [ Spectator , No 413 . Better thus : As this is a truth , & c . the English reader ...
... reader would fee the notion explained at large , he may find it in the eighth chapter of the fecond book of Mr Lock's effay on human understanding .. [ Spectator , No 413 . Better thus : As this is a truth , & c . the English reader ...
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... reader , will chufe the former order . 3dly , As the fenfe of or- der directs the eye to defcend from the principal to its greatest acceffory , and from the whole to its greatest part , and in the fame order through all the parts and ...
... reader , will chufe the former order . 3dly , As the fenfe of or- der directs the eye to defcend from the principal to its greatest acceffory , and from the whole to its greatest part , and in the fame order through all the parts and ...
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Página 202 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 193 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 145 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 223 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Página 144 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Página 144 - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Página 169 - O navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus ! o quid agis ? fortiter occupa portum ! nonne vides ut nudum remigio latus et malus celeri saucius Africo 5 antennaeque gemant ac sine funibus vix durare carinae possint imperiosius aequor?
Página 144 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 206 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
Página 171 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...