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... character with his fubjects . " Mr Haftings himself has lately ar- rived in Britain . A parliamentary inquiry into his conduct has been propofed by Mr Burke . This , how- ever , cannot be expected in the course of the prefent feffion ...
... character with his fubjects . " Mr Haftings himself has lately ar- rived in Britain . A parliamentary inquiry into his conduct has been propofed by Mr Burke . This , how- ever , cannot be expected in the course of the prefent feffion ...
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... character of Dante has been thrown under a deeper fhade . That agreeable and volatile nation found in themselves an infuperable averfion to the gloomy and romantic bard , whose genius , ar- dent , melancholy , and fublime , was fo ...
... character of Dante has been thrown under a deeper fhade . That agreeable and volatile nation found in themselves an infuperable averfion to the gloomy and romantic bard , whose genius , ar- dent , melancholy , and fublime , was fo ...
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... character muft ap- pear in the ftrongest and most affec- ting points of view , as well as in the greatest variety of fituations ; yet in the courfe of a martial enterprise , a- mong a people uncivilized and rude , thofe profpects must ...
... character muft ap- pear in the ftrongest and most affec- ting points of view , as well as in the greatest variety of fituations ; yet in the courfe of a martial enterprise , a- mong a people uncivilized and rude , thofe profpects must ...
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... character , and the moft artful conduct of fable , are not , even when combined together , fufficient of them- felves to make a poem interesting . Non fatis eft pulchra esse poemata , DULCIA funto . HOR . par- The Greeks and Trojans may ...
... character , and the moft artful conduct of fable , are not , even when combined together , fufficient of them- felves to make a poem interesting . Non fatis eft pulchra esse poemata , DULCIA funto . HOR . par- The Greeks and Trojans may ...
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... character . But compare his conduct with respect to Dido with the self - denial of Dry- den's Cleomenes , or with the con- duct of Titus in the Berenice of Ra- cine , we will then fee what is meant by making a character interesting . We ...
... character . But compare his conduct with respect to Dido with the self - denial of Dry- den's Cleomenes , or with the con- duct of Titus in the Berenice of Ra- cine , we will then fee what is meant by making a character interesting . We ...
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Página 184 - Upon this tour, when journeying, he wore boots, and a very wide brown cloth great coat, with pockets which might have almost held the two volumes of his folio dictionary; and he carried in his hand a large English oak stick.
Página 184 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be -more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay...
Página 184 - ... but he indulged this only in conversation, for he owned he "sometimes talked for victory. He was too conscientious to make error permanent and pernicious, by deliberately writing it.
Página 236 - ... to be. As the soul, in this mortal frame, findeth infancy, youth, and old age, so in some future frame will it find the like. One who is confirmed in this belief is not disturbed by anything that may come to pass.
Página 186 - We seem to treat the thoughts, that present themselves to the fancy in crowds, as a great man treats those [courtiers] that attend his levee. They are all ambitious of his attention. He goes round the circle, bestowing a bow upon one, a smile upon another; asks a short question of a third, while a fourth is honoured with a particular conference; and the greater part have no particular mark of attention, but go as they came. It is true, he can give no mark of his attention to those who were not there,...
Página 184 - Robertson said, one man had more judgment, another more imagination. JOHNSON. "No, sir; it is only, one man has more mind than another. He may direct it differently; he may, by accident, see the success of one kind of study, and take a desire to excel in it. I am persuaded that, had Sir Isaac Newton applied to poetry, he would have made a very fine epic poem. I could as easily apply to law as to tragic poetry." BOSWELL. '"Yet, sir, you did apply to tragic poetry, not to law.
Página 64 - Well, Mr. Pitt, I see (or I fear) this won't do. My honour is concerned, and I must support it ! Et sic finite, estfabula.
Página 184 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Página 184 - He had thought more than any body supposed, and had a pretty good stock of general learning and knowledge. He had all Dr. Johnson's principles, with some degree of relaxation. He had rather too little, than too much prudence; and, his imagination being lively, he often said things of which the effect was very different from the intention.
Página 184 - Think then, of a gentleman of ancient blood, the pride of which was his predominant passion. He was then in his thirty-third year, and had been about four years happily married. His inclination was to be a soldier ; but his father, a respectable Judge, had pressed him into the profession of the law. He had travelled a good deal, and seen many varieties of human life. He had thought...