The British Essayists, Zväzok 33Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana iv
... equal excellence with those in the RAMBLER , Mr. BOSWELL has selected Nos . 14 , 24 , 41 , 43 , 51 , 52 , 58 , 89 , and 103 , to which a few others may with the same justice be added . But the chief excellence of the IDLER is , the dry ...
... equal excellence with those in the RAMBLER , Mr. BOSWELL has selected Nos . 14 , 24 , 41 , 43 , 51 , 52 , 58 , 89 , and 103 , to which a few others may with the same justice be added . But the chief excellence of the IDLER is , the dry ...
Strana xiv
... equal ADDISON's original sketch , have considerable merit in placing idle- ness and dissipation in a ridiculous light . It is curious , if not important , to trace the history of certain species of humour . The annotators on the ...
... equal ADDISON's original sketch , have considerable merit in placing idle- ness and dissipation in a ridiculous light . It is curious , if not important , to trace the history of certain species of humour . The annotators on the ...
Strana xx
... equal knowledge , but few were so com- municative . His great pleasure was to talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his wonderful powers . In mixed com- pany , and frequently in company that ought to have looked ...
... equal knowledge , but few were so com- municative . His great pleasure was to talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his wonderful powers . In mixed com- pany , and frequently in company that ought to have looked ...
Strana xxiii
... , and Sir JOSHUA in his infantine portraits , is beyond all competition without an equal . His female por- traits are also designed with an exquisite feeling of taste and elegance ; and for that variety of BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE .
... , and Sir JOSHUA in his infantine portraits , is beyond all competition without an equal . His female por- traits are also designed with an exquisite feeling of taste and elegance ; and for that variety of BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE .
Strana xxiv
... equal opportunity to cultivate it ; but , from the want of that habit which practice would have given him , he was used to say , that historical effort cost him too much . He better knew what he wanted than possessed a promptitude of ...
... equal opportunity to cultivate it ; but , from the want of that habit which practice would have given him , he was used to say , that historical effort cost him too much . He better knew what he wanted than possessed a promptitude of ...
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Strana 199 - He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick...
Strana 242 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Strana 228 - He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
Strana 47 - ... of mutilation, or with the excision or laceration of the vital parts ; to examine whether burning irons are felt more acutely by the bone or tendon ; and whether the more lasting agonies are produced by poison forced into the mouth, or injected into the veins.
Strana 6 - ... performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions, and barren zeal.
Strana i - But in this number of his Idler his spirits seem to run riot; for in the wantonness of his disquisition he forgets, for a moment, even the reverence for that which he held in high respect; and describes " the attendant on a Court" as one " whose business is to watch the looks of a being, weak and foolish as himself.
Strana 128 - The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection, that it is not easy to propose any improvement.
Strana 310 - There are few things not purely evil, of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the last. Those who never could agree together, shed tears when mutual discontent has determined them to final separation; of a place which has been frequently visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart...
Strana 257 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...