Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volumen2T. Davies, 1774 - 375 páginas |
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... expected ; and , indeed , this Part of the Library is no common Inftance of Diligence and Accuracy . Here are to be found , with the ancient Chronicles , and larger Hiftories of Britain , the Narratives of fingle Reigns , and the ...
... expected ; and , indeed , this Part of the Library is no common Inftance of Diligence and Accuracy . Here are to be found , with the ancient Chronicles , and larger Hiftories of Britain , the Narratives of fingle Reigns , and the ...
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... expected by thofe who reflect how feldom thofe excel in either , whom their Education has qualified to compofe Books . The Admirer of Greek and Roman Literature will meet , in this Collection , with Editions little known to the most ...
... expected by thofe who reflect how feldom thofe excel in either , whom their Education has qualified to compofe Books . The Admirer of Greek and Roman Literature will meet , in this Collection , with Editions little known to the most ...
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... expected , that with the Explanation of the one the Herald fhould be fatisfied , or the Philofopher with that of . the other ; but fince it will be required by common Readers , that the Explications fhould be fufficient . for common Ufe ...
... expected , that with the Explanation of the one the Herald fhould be fatisfied , or the Philofopher with that of . the other ; but fince it will be required by common Readers , that the Explications fhould be fufficient . for common Ufe ...
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... of others . But Obfervations so minute and accurate are to be defired rather than expected : And if Use be care- fully fupplied , Curiofity muft fometimes bear its Difappointments . & This , This , my Lord , is my Idea of an 52 PLAN OF AN.
... of others . But Obfervations so minute and accurate are to be defired rather than expected : And if Use be care- fully fupplied , Curiofity muft fometimes bear its Difappointments . & This , This , my Lord , is my Idea of an 52 PLAN OF AN.
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... expected in a Tafk , which no Man , however learned or fagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some Words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been omitted very often with little ...
... expected in a Tafk , which no Man , however learned or fagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some Words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been omitted very often with little ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...