Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2J. Sharpe, 1805 - 472 páginas |
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... human life and manners . The style , however , is not pleasing ; it is devoid of melody and simplicity , and the sentences are too short and antithetic . I insert a portion of his essay on studies as a spe- cimen . " Studies serve for ...
... human life and manners . The style , however , is not pleasing ; it is devoid of melody and simplicity , and the sentences are too short and antithetic . I insert a portion of his essay on studies as a spe- cimen . " Studies serve for ...
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... possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy , the best mixture of human affairs that we can make are the employments of a country life . - " We are here among the vast and noble scenes OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 41.
... possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy , the best mixture of human affairs that we can make are the employments of a country life . - " We are here among the vast and noble scenes OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 41.
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... human malice : our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects , which are all sophisticated there , and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries . Here pleasure looks ( methinks ) like a ...
... human malice : our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects , which are all sophisticated there , and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries . Here pleasure looks ( methinks ) like a ...
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... humanity , upon account of common interest , benefit , and advantage . The welfare and safety , the honour and reputation , the pleasure and quiet of our lives are concerned in our maintaining a loving correspondence with all men . For ...
... humanity , upon account of common interest , benefit , and advantage . The welfare and safety , the honour and reputation , the pleasure and quiet of our lives are concerned in our maintaining a loving correspondence with all men . For ...
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... humanity and good behaviour of the courtier . In his poems he united the solidity and art of the one , with the gentility and gracefulness of the other . " If any shall think that he was not wonder- fully curious in the choice and ...
... humanity and good behaviour of the courtier . In his poems he united the solidity and art of the one , with the gentility and gracefulness of the other . " If any shall think that he was not wonder- fully curious in the choice and ...
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Página 34 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Página 113 - 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.
Página 13 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 46 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Página 20 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Página 101 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Página 37 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Página 36 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave ; whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to point out and describe.
Página 37 - ... reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as ' are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.
Página 2 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...