The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 |
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... read much , and used so often to con- verse on subjects of learning , that she put all the men in the country to flight except the old parson , who declared himself much delighted with her company , because No. 34 185 RAMBLER .
... read much , and used so often to con- verse on subjects of learning , that she put all the men in the country to flight except the old parson , who declared himself much delighted with her company , because No. 34 185 RAMBLER .
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... verse is capable , and should therefore be exactly kept in distichs , and gener ally in the last line of a paragraph , that the ear may rest without any sense of imperfection . But to preserve the series of sounds untrans- posed in a ...
... verse is capable , and should therefore be exactly kept in distichs , and gener ally in the last line of a paragraph , that the ear may rest without any sense of imperfection . But to preserve the series of sounds untrans- posed in a ...
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... verse . There are two lines in this passage more re- markably unharmonious ; -This delicious place , For us too large ; where thy abundance wants Partakers , and uncropp'd falls to the ground . Here the third pair of syllables in the ...
... verse . There are two lines in this passage more re- markably unharmonious ; -This delicious place , For us too large ; where thy abundance wants Partakers , and uncropp'd falls to the ground . Here the third pair of syllables in the ...
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... verses are carried one into another , but is remarkably striking in this place , where the vicious verse concludes a period ; and is yet more offensive in rhyme , when we regu- larly attend to the flow of every single line . This will ...
... verses are carried one into another , but is remarkably striking in this place , where the vicious verse concludes a period ; and is yet more offensive in rhyme , when we regu- larly attend to the flow of every single line . This will ...
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... verse may be melodious and pleasing , it is necessary , not only that the words be so rang- ed as that the accent may fall on its proper place , but that the syllables themselves be so chosen as to flow smoothly into one another . This ...
... verse may be melodious and pleasing , it is necessary , not only that the words be so rang- ed as that the accent may fall on its proper place , but that the syllables themselves be so chosen as to flow smoothly into one another . This ...
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acquaintance amusements attention babita beauty censure common considered contempt conversation critick curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dili diligence domestick DRYDEN duty endeavour envy equally eral esteem excellence expect eyes FALSEHOOD favour fear flattery folly fortune frequently friendship Gabba gaiety give gratifications happiness heart hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined innu inquiry invisible means justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look mankind ment Milton mind misery nature necessary neglect ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure portunity praise precepts publick quired RAMBLER reason regard rest rience SALLUST SATURDAY scarcely secret machinations seldom shew sions sometimes soon sophism sound stancy suffer syllables tenderness thing thou thought thousand tion truth TUESDAY vanity verse virtue wisdom wish
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Էջ 248 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Էջ 80 - ... us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made: that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at...
Էջ 239 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Էջ 80 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Էջ 47 - ... faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Էջ 210 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Էջ 224 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Էջ 47 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Էջ 223 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Էջ 199 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.