Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volumen2T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1774 |
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... able Ambition , he may find in this Catalogue Hints and Informations which are not eafily to be met with ; he will difcover , that the boafted Bodleian Library is very far from a perfect Model , and that even the learned Fabricius ...
... able Ambition , he may find in this Catalogue Hints and Informations which are not eafily to be met with ; he will difcover , that the boafted Bodleian Library is very far from a perfect Model , and that even the learned Fabricius ...
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... able to obtain ; nor are the Magul , the Tartar , the Turk , and the Saracen , without their Hiftorians . That Perfons fo inquifitive , with Regard to the Tranfactions of other Nations , fhould enquire yet more ardently after the ...
... able to obtain ; nor are the Magul , the Tartar , the Turk , and the Saracen , without their Hiftorians . That Perfons fo inquifitive , with Regard to the Tranfactions of other Nations , fhould enquire yet more ardently after the ...
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... able : to engrofs this Library , as to exclude Phyfic , Philo- fophy , or Criticism . Thofe have been thought , with Juftice , worthy of a Place , who have exa- mined the different Species of Animals , delineated their Forms , or ...
... able : to engrofs this Library , as to exclude Phyfic , Philo- fophy , or Criticism . Thofe have been thought , with Juftice , worthy of a Place , who have exa- mined the different Species of Animals , delineated their Forms , or ...
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... every prefent Government ; many of them are Men of able Bodies , and ftrong Limbs , qualified at least as well for the Musket as the Pen : They are , per- haps , haps , at prefent a little emaciated and enfeebled ; ON AUTHORS . 27.
... every prefent Government ; many of them are Men of able Bodies , and ftrong Limbs , qualified at least as well for the Musket as the Pen : They are , per- haps , haps , at prefent a little emaciated and enfeebled ; ON AUTHORS . 27.
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... able to determine . Its firft Effect has been to make me anxious , left it should fix the Attention of the Public too much upon me , and , as it once happened to I to an Epic Poet of France , by raising the PLAN , & c . 31.
... able to determine . Its firft Effect has been to make me anxious , left it should fix the Attention of the Public too much upon me , and , as it once happened to I to an Epic Poet of France , by raising the PLAN , & c . 31.
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Página 318 - 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.
Página 203 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 316 - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
Página 98 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 149 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 320 - Improve his heady rage with treach'rous skill, And mould his passions till they make his will..
Página 98 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 84 - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
Página 113 - 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.
Página 297 - ... mind ; which in his case, as in the case of all who are distressed with the same malady of imagination, transfers to others its own feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, 'Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind.