The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Հատոր 7 |
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Արդյունքներ 81–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 3
... look uporf a man as an ingenious person , that can resemble the tone , posture , or face of another . As true wit consists in the resemblance of ideas , and false wit in the resemblance of words , according to the foregoing instances ...
... look uporf a man as an ingenious person , that can resemble the tone , posture , or face of another . As true wit consists in the resemblance of ideas , and false wit in the resemblance of words , according to the foregoing instances ...
Էջ 4
... look into the Latin writers , we find none of this mixt wit in Virgil , Lucre- tius , or Catullus ; very little in Horace , but a great deal of it in Ovid , and scarce any thing else in Martial . Out of the innumerable branches of mixt ...
... look into the Latin writers , we find none of this mixt wit in Virgil , Lucre- tius , or Catullus ; very little in Horace , but a great deal of it in Ovid , and scarce any thing else in Martial . Out of the innumerable branches of mixt ...
Էջ 6
... look upon to be the most pe- netrating of all the French critics , has taken pains to shew , that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just , and has not its founda- tion in the nature of things ; that the basis ...
... look upon to be the most pe- netrating of all the French critics , has taken pains to shew , that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just , and has not its founda- tion in the nature of things ; that the basis ...
Էջ 11
... look upon them without laughing . There were behind the acrostics two or three files of chronograms , which differed only from the former , as their officers were equipped ( like the figure of Time ) with an hour - glass in one hand ...
... look upon them without laughing . There were behind the acrostics two or three files of chronograms , which differed only from the former , as their officers were equipped ( like the figure of Time ) with an hour - glass in one hand ...
Էջ 14
... look upon the first , without seeing the other at the same time . There was behind them a strong compact body of figures . The genius of Heroic Poetry appeared with a sword in her hand , and a laurel on her head . Tragedy was crowned ...
... look upon the first , without seeing the other at the same time . There was behind them a strong compact body of figures . The genius of Heroic Poetry appeared with a sword in her hand , and a laurel on her head . Tragedy was crowned ...
Common terms and phrases
admire agreeable animals appear beautiful behaviour body burning-glasses character club conversation court creatures daugh delight discourse Dorimant dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour Epidaurus Epig epigram Eucrate Eudoxus eyes face fair sex favour Flavia forbear fortune friend Sir Roger gentleman give Glaphyra good-breeding greatest hand head hear heard heart honest honour humour husband idol imagination kind knight labour lady Laertes letter live look lover mankind manner master mind nature neral never observe occasion ordinary OVID particular pass passion person Phara Pharamond physiognomist Platonic love pleased pleasure poet present prince proper reader reason seems sense servants shew soul speak spect SPECTATOR Steenkirk tell temper thing thou thought tion Tmolus told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue walking whig whole woman women words writing young
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Էջ 136 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Էջ 235 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Էջ 225 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Էջ 232 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Էջ 216 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.
Էջ 280 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Էջ 232 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
Էջ 211 - ... approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Էջ 210 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
Էջ 218 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.