The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página ii
... man of fenfe , it is neceffary , not only that he fhould have feen much , but that he should have overlooked much of what he hath feen . Nature is not , 2- any any more than a great genius , always admirable in ii The PREFACE .
... man of fenfe , it is neceffary , not only that he fhould have feen much , but that he should have overlooked much of what he hath feen . Nature is not , 2- any any more than a great genius , always admirable in ii The PREFACE .
Página vi
... nature hath been a moft parfimonious diftributer of her richest talents , and hath feldom bestowed many on the fame perfon . But on the other hand , why there fhould scarce exift a fingle writer of this kind worthy our regard ; and ...
... nature hath been a moft parfimonious diftributer of her richest talents , and hath feldom bestowed many on the fame perfon . But on the other hand , why there fhould scarce exift a fingle writer of this kind worthy our regard ; and ...
Página viii
... nature too ftrait for the im- menfity of their genius , which they had not room to exert , without extend- ing fact by fiction ; and that especially at a time when the manners of men were too fimple to afford that variety , which they ...
... nature too ftrait for the im- menfity of their genius , which they had not room to exert , without extend- ing fact by fiction ; and that especially at a time when the manners of men were too fimple to afford that variety , which they ...
Página ix
... nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herself , or her journey- man the poet , formed the first pattern of the piece . BUT other writers ( I will put Pliny at their head ) have no fuch pretenfions . to indulgence : they lye ...
... nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herself , or her journey- man the poet , formed the first pattern of the piece . BUT other writers ( I will put Pliny at their head ) have no fuch pretenfions . to indulgence : they lye ...
Página x
... nature , to the histories of former ages , and to the experience of our own , and which no man can at once understand and believe . If it fhould be objected ( and it can no where be objected better than where I now write * , as there is ...
... nature , to the histories of former ages , and to the experience of our own , and which no man can at once understand and believe . If it fhould be objected ( and it can no where be objected better than where I now write * , as there is ...
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