Harrison's British Classicks, Zväzok 1Harrison and Company, 1785 |
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Strana 9
... last totally destroyed . There were fome compofitions brought to the teft , in which , when the ftrongest light was thrown upon them , their beau- ties and faults appeared fo equally min- gled , that Criticifm flood with her fceptre ...
... last totally destroyed . There were fome compofitions brought to the teft , in which , when the ftrongest light was thrown upon them , their beau- ties and faults appeared fo equally min- gled , that Criticifm flood with her fceptre ...
Strana 10
poetry . In like manner , almost all the fictions of the last age will vanifh , if you deprive them of a hermit and a wood , a battle and a fhipwreck . Why this wild train of imagination found reception fo long , in polite and learned ...
poetry . In like manner , almost all the fictions of the last age will vanifh , if you deprive them of a hermit and a wood , a battle and a fhipwreck . Why this wild train of imagination found reception fo long , in polite and learned ...
Strana 12
... last arrives , it generally coines without the bleifing for which it was defired ; but we folace ourselves with fome new profpect , and prefs forward again with equal ea- gernels . It is lucky for a man in whom this temper prevails ...
... last arrives , it generally coines without the bleifing for which it was defired ; but we folace ourselves with fome new profpect , and prefs forward again with equal ea- gernels . It is lucky for a man in whom this temper prevails ...
Strana 18
... last it would lofe all it's activity , and become abfolutely without effect . To prevent this dreadful event , the balance is put into our own hands , and we have power to transfer the weight to either fide . The motives to a life of ...
... last it would lofe all it's activity , and become abfolutely without effect . To prevent this dreadful event , the balance is put into our own hands , and we have power to transfer the weight to either fide . The motives to a life of ...
Strana 19
... last confidently perpetrated , of which the first conception only crept into the mind , difguifed in pleafing complications , and permitted rather than invited . No man has ever been drawn to crimes by love or jealoufy , envy or hatred ...
... last confidently perpetrated , of which the first conception only crept into the mind , difguifed in pleafing complications , and permitted rather than invited . No man has ever been drawn to crimes by love or jealoufy , envy or hatred ...
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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.