The microcosm [ed. by G. Canning and others]. [Another]George Canning 1825 |
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... moral reflec- tions with the common occupations of life XXXVII . — On the affectation of philosophy - The folly of pretending to despise what the greatest part of mankind desires - The folly of a life of total seclusion from the world ...
... moral reflec- tions with the common occupations of life XXXVII . — On the affectation of philosophy - The folly of pretending to despise what the greatest part of mankind desires - The folly of a life of total seclusion from the world ...
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George Canning. add to these , the stores which history , reading , and morality , or the offspring of a muse just struggling into notice , can supply , combined with the topics of the moment , or those which our peculiar situation can ...
George Canning. add to these , the stores which history , reading , and morality , or the offspring of a muse just struggling into notice , can supply , combined with the topics of the moment , or those which our peculiar situation can ...
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... morality , but as the reflections of an impartial ob- server of all transactions , principally indeed those of this ... moral precepts fail , The sneer of ridicule will oft prevail . It has often occurred as a matter of surprise to me ...
... morality , but as the reflections of an impartial ob- server of all transactions , principally indeed those of this ... moral precepts fail , The sneer of ridicule will oft prevail . It has often occurred as a matter of surprise to me ...
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... morality would sometimes hurry him a little beyond the limits of good grammar or good sense , in the height of declamation , declare , that " the little children , that could neither speak nor walk , run about the streets blaspheming ...
... morality would sometimes hurry him a little beyond the limits of good grammar or good sense , in the height of declamation , declare , that " the little children , that could neither speak nor walk , run about the streets blaspheming ...
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... morality , I cannot but be surprised that no one has yet attempted to reduce to system , and teach the theory of an art , the practical part of which is so universally known and adopted . An undertaking of this kind could not surely ...
... morality , I cannot but be surprised that no one has yet attempted to reduce to system , and teach the theory of an art , the practical part of which is so universally known and adopted . An undertaking of this kind could not surely ...
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Common terms and phrases
abilities Addison admiration Æneid Æsop ambition ancient apartments deranged appearance attention barbarous boast Cæsar cæsura character Cicero considered contempt criticism Demosthenes effect effeminacy elegant eminent endeavour entertain Epic poem equally Eton excellence existence fame favour feel fellow-citizens frequently genius give glory GREGORY GRIFFIN happy heart hero highwayman honour hope HORACE human nature humour idea Iliad illustrious imitation indulgence instance judgment Julius Cæsar kind labours language learning letter liberty mankind means merit MICROCOSMOPOLITAN mind MONDAY moral nation never Newgate Calendar object observed opinion original Ovid paper passions peculiar perhaps Pericles period person philosopher Plato pleasing poem poet poetical poetry political present principle profession pursuit racter readers refined reflection ridiculous Roman sentiment spirit superior suppose Tacitus taste thing Tom Long Trajan truth umbris vanity Virgil virtue wish writings
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Էջ 264 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Էջ 178 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face ; Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise.
Էջ 264 - His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace : he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Էջ 265 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Էջ 84 - That age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias and painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes or a tragedy of Sophocles.
Էջ 195 - Yet all these were, when no man did them know; Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene: And later times things more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is, but that which he hath scene?
Էջ 230 - And felt the footsteps of the immortal god. From realm to realm three ample strides he took, And, at the fourth, the distant /Egae shook.
Էջ 43 - TJnpitied toil, and unlamented die; Groan at the labours of the galling oar, Or the dark caverns of the mine explore. The glitt'ring tyranny of Othman's sons, The pomp of horror which surrounds their thrones, Has awed their servile spirits into fear, Spurn'd by the foot they tremble and revere. The day of labour, night's sad sleepless hour, Th...
Էջ 98 - Thus have I industriously gone through the several parts of this wonderful work ; and clearly proved it, in .every one of these parts, and in .all of them together, to be a due and proper epic poem ; and to have as good a right to that title, from its adherence to prescribed rules, as any of the celebrated master-pieces of antiquity. And here I cannot help again lamenting, that by not knowing the name of the author, I am unable to twine...
Էջ 194 - But let that man with better sence advize, That of the world least part to us is red: And daily how through hardy enterprize Many great regions are discovered, Which to late age were never mentioned. Who ever heard of th