Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His SonBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 363 էջ |
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... called up- on for an example of the ridiculous , I do not know that I should not quote this passage as soon as any of the notions attributed to the mock philosophers , so happily ridiculed by Butler .... who knew " Where entity and ...
... called up- on for an example of the ridiculous , I do not know that I should not quote this passage as soon as any of the notions attributed to the mock philosophers , so happily ridiculed by Butler .... who knew " Where entity and ...
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... called the extravagant French reformers " Architects of ruin ; " and Pope affords an instance of witty contrast in his ridicule of Timon's villa ..... " Lo ! what huge heaps of littleness around ; " The whole a labour'd quarry above ...
... called the extravagant French reformers " Architects of ruin ; " and Pope affords an instance of witty contrast in his ridicule of Timon's villa ..... " Lo ! what huge heaps of littleness around ; " The whole a labour'd quarry above ...
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... called analogical reasoning , which is often as ridiculous as fanciful . As for instance .... " What does it signify ( quoth Albertus ) whether my nephew exceeds in the cursus or not ? Speed is often a symptom of cowardice , witness ...
... called analogical reasoning , which is often as ridiculous as fanciful . As for instance .... " What does it signify ( quoth Albertus ) whether my nephew exceeds in the cursus or not ? Speed is often a symptom of cowardice , witness ...
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... affords also an en- couragement to this kind of study ( which would other- wise be what is called dry ) by the beauty and utility of - the quotations which the author employs to illustrate his LETTER VII Language Perspicuity Purity.
... affords also an en- couragement to this kind of study ( which would other- wise be what is called dry ) by the beauty and utility of - the quotations which the author employs to illustrate his LETTER VII Language Perspicuity Purity.
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... called upon them to pronounce and inflict the sentence of the law . " .... GIB- BON . Here it is not easy to define what service is meant , whether civil or religious . A similar ambiguity may be found in the same author . Speaking of ...
... called upon them to pronounce and inflict the sentence of the law . " .... GIB- BON . Here it is not easy to define what service is meant , whether civil or religious . A similar ambiguity may be found in the same author . Speaking of ...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Հատոր 1 George Gregory Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1808 |
Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Հատոր 1 George Gregory Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1808 |
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Էջ 76 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows, be darkened ; And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Էջ 15 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...
Էջ 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Էջ 298 - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee, All that summer hours produce. Fertile made with early juice : Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Էջ 69 - Are they Hebrews ? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I ; Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they the ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft...
Էջ 78 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Էջ 273 - Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Էջ 122 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Էջ 206 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Էջ 74 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.