Harrison's British Classicks, Zväzok 1Harrison and Company, 1785 |
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Strana 4
... believe their miftrefs withes for the difcovery . The fame method , if it were practicable to writers , would fave many complaints of the fe- verity of the age , and the caprices of criticifm . If a man could glide imper- ceptibly into ...
... believe their miftrefs withes for the difcovery . The fame method , if it were practicable to writers , would fave many complaints of the fe- verity of the age , and the caprices of criticifm . If a man could glide imper- ceptibly into ...
Strana 6
... believe au- thors willing rather to tranfmit than ex- amine fo advantageous a principle , and more inclined to purfue a track fo fmooth and fo flowery , than attentively to con- fider whether it leads to truth . This quality of looking ...
... believe au- thors willing rather to tranfmit than ex- amine fo advantageous a principle , and more inclined to purfue a track fo fmooth and fo flowery , than attentively to con- fider whether it leads to truth . This quality of looking ...
Strana 7
... believe that he poffibly may deserve negle & t ; that nature may not have qua- lified him much to enlarge or embellish knowledge , nor fent him forth entitled by indifputable fuperiority to regulate the conduct of the rest of mankind ...
... believe that he poffibly may deserve negle & t ; that nature may not have qua- lified him much to enlarge or embellish knowledge , nor fent him forth entitled by indifputable fuperiority to regulate the conduct of the rest of mankind ...
Strana 8
... believe that modern criticks , who , if they have not the eyes , have the watchfulness of Argus , and can bark as loud as Cerberus , though perhaps they cannot bite with equal force , might be fubdued by methods of the fame kind . I ...
... believe that modern criticks , who , if they have not the eyes , have the watchfulness of Argus , and can bark as loud as Cerberus , though perhaps they cannot bite with equal force , might be fubdued by methods of the fame kind . I ...
Strana 12
... believe , fcarce any poet of eminence who has not left fome teftimony of his fondnels for the flowers , the zephyrs , and the warblers of the fpring . Nor has the most luxuriant imagination been able to defcribe the ferenity and ...
... believe , fcarce any poet of eminence who has not left fome teftimony of his fondnels for the flowers , the zephyrs , and the warblers of the fpring . Nor has the most luxuriant imagination been able to defcribe the ferenity and ...
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Strana 317 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Strana 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
Strana 415 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Strana 450 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Strana 159 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
Strana 20 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Strana 318 - I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable!
Strana 355 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Strana 463 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Strana 233 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.