The British Essayists, Zväzok 16Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana ix
... honour to the author's sagacity . It was the first attempt ever made to distinguish the immediate and natural objects of sight from the conclusions we have been accustomed from in- fancy to draw from them : a distinction from which the ...
... honour to the author's sagacity . It was the first attempt ever made to distinguish the immediate and natural objects of sight from the conclusions we have been accustomed from in- fancy to draw from them : a distinction from which the ...
Strana xxiv
... honour . * These suspicions ADDISON is said to have com- municated to TICKELL , the consequence of which afterwards broke out openly in TICKELL'S Life of ADDISON , and STEELE'S dedication of the Drummer . The friendship , however ...
... honour . * These suspicions ADDISON is said to have com- municated to TICKELL , the consequence of which afterwards broke out openly in TICKELL'S Life of ADDISON , and STEELE'S dedication of the Drummer . The friendship , however ...
Strana xxv
... honour , in which he continued until 1740 , when he died , April 23 , at Bath . Of his person- al character we have little information : he is said to have been a man of gay conversation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company ...
... honour , in which he continued until 1740 , when he died , April 23 , at Bath . Of his person- al character we have little information : he is said to have been a man of gay conversation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company ...
Strana xxxiv
... honour , as to inscribe the title of it to others which may be published upon the laying down of this work ; the whole praise or dispraise of such a performance , will belong to some other author : this fifty - fifth being the last ...
... honour , as to inscribe the title of it to others which may be published upon the laying down of this work ; the whole praise or dispraise of such a performance , will belong to some other author : this fifty - fifth being the last ...
Strana xlvi
... honour or distinction is allotted to them . The following extract from the scarce pamphlet mentioned in the Preface to the TATLER , and supposed to have been written by GAY , may throw some light on the rivals of the TATLER . " The ...
... honour or distinction is allotted to them . The following extract from the scarce pamphlet mentioned in the Preface to the TATLER , and supposed to have been written by GAY , may throw some light on the rivals of the TATLER . " The ...
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ADDISON agreeable Aguire ancient appear Arbor Porphyriana beauty called character Charwell circumstances conversation Corydon countenance daughter delight Desdemona desire discourse dress easy eclogues endeavour esteem express eyes fancy father favour fortune free-thinker genius gentleman give GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humble servant humour Iago imagination innocence Ironside kind king lady Lizard laugh learned letter live look Lord lover madam Maid's Tragedy mankind manner MARCH 16 merit mind Mohock mother nature never Northamptonshire observed occasion Othello paper particular passion pastoral person Philips pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry POPE racter reader reason religion RICHARD TICKELL Scaron sense shepherds shew sions Sir Harry soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE TATLER Theocritus ther thing thou thought tion town vanity VIRG Virgil virtue wherein WHIG whole woman words writing young
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Strana 269 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! How void of reason are our ho,pes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears -So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish,
Strana 150 - WILES. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind in conscious virtue bold,, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the
Strana 93 - 485. - My next desire is, void of care and strife,, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life, A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley, and a lofty wood. DRYDEN. PASTORAL -poetry, not only amuses -the fancy the most delightfully, but ,is likewise more indebted to It than any other sort whatsoever,
Strana 150 - trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love; In pitying Love we but our weakness show, And wild Ambition well deserves its woe. Here tears shall flow from a more
Strana 87 - turned into blood, and all the powers of heaven shaken; when the heaven.s themselves shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements dissolve with fervent heat; when the earth also, and all the works that are therein, shall be burnt up ¿
Strana 135 - say true) The dapper elves their moon-light sports pursue, Their pigmy king, and little fairy queen, In circling dances gambol'd on the green, While tuneful springs a merry concert made, And airy music warbled through the shade.' What hath been said upon the difference of climate,
Strana xiv - the nation are read only as effusions of wit, must wish for more WHIG EXAMINERS; for on no occasion was the genius of ADDISON more vigorously exerted, and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear. The
Strana vii - know nobody else capable of succeeding in it, and turning it to the good of mankind, since my friend has laid it .down. I am in a thousand troubles for poor DicK, and wish that his zeal for the public may not be ruinous to himself; but he has sent me word, that he is determined to go on, and that any
Strana 151 - Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song: Dare to have sense yourselves, assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage: Such plays alone should please a British
Strana xlvi - CICERO.¿ Whatever that be, which' thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine, and, upon that account, must necessarily be eternal. I AM diverted from the account I was giving the town of my particular concerns, by casting my eye upon a treatise, which I could not overlook without an inexcusable negligence,