The British Essayists, Zväzok 33Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana ii
... kind as might suit the taste of newspaper readers , and distin- guish this publication from its contemporaries . Sir JOHN HAWKINS assigns as a reason for Mr. NEWBERY'S wishing to have an ESSAY in his paper , that the occurrences during ...
... kind as might suit the taste of newspaper readers , and distin- guish this publication from its contemporaries . Sir JOHN HAWKINS assigns as a reason for Mr. NEWBERY'S wishing to have an ESSAY in his paper , that the occurrences during ...
Strana iii
... kind . In the supposititious French ac- count of the capture of Louisburg in No. 20 , he expresses some sentiments on the rights of conquest on Indian territory , which have often been repeated and expanded by those who are disaffected ...
... kind . In the supposititious French ac- count of the capture of Louisburg in No. 20 , he expresses some sentiments on the rights of conquest on Indian territory , which have often been repeated and expanded by those who are disaffected ...
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... kind shew great strength of mind , and leave us to regret that this land of portrait painting had not given him equal opportunity to cultivate it ; but , from the want of that habit which practice would have given him , he was used to ...
... kind shew great strength of mind , and leave us to regret that this land of portrait painting had not given him equal opportunity to cultivate it ; but , from the want of that habit which practice would have given him , he was used to ...
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... kind reception of the first ; and in a short time apologies have become ne- cessary to those ingenious gentlemen and ladies whose performances , though in the highest degree elegant and learned , have been unavoidably delayed . What ...
... kind reception of the first ; and in a short time apologies have become ne- cessary to those ingenious gentlemen and ladies whose performances , though in the highest degree elegant and learned , have been unavoidably delayed . What ...
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... kind shot up in their way , and those of the most luxu- riant growth , or most conspicuous colours , were naturally cropt by the first sickle . They that fol- low are forced to peep into neglected corners , to note the casual varieties ...
... kind shot up in their way , and those of the most luxu- riant growth , or most conspicuous colours , were naturally cropt by the first sickle . They that fol- low are forced to peep into neglected corners , to note the casual varieties ...
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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...