Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 páginas |
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... and contempt , " retorted in terms to which the language of Theobald is mildness itself ; " there is , " says he , in his Remarks on Pope's VOL . IV . D Homer , " a notorious idiot , one hight Whacum PERIODICAL PAPERS . 33.
... and contempt , " retorted in terms to which the language of Theobald is mildness itself ; " there is , " says he , in his Remarks on Pope's VOL . IV . D Homer , " a notorious idiot , one hight Whacum PERIODICAL PAPERS . 33.
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... languages . The factious politics of the age , however , diverted his atten- tion , for a time , from classical pursuits , and he enlisted under the banners of the Earl of Oxford . Soon after this event , he gained the esteem and ...
... languages . The factious politics of the age , however , diverted his atten- tion , for a time , from classical pursuits , and he enlisted under the banners of the Earl of Oxford . Soon after this event , he gained the esteem and ...
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... language is clear and nervous , though some- times coarse ; and the principles of liberty are supported with a bold and manly spirit , and with no subserviency to faction or cabal . The fourth edition of Cato's Letters was printed in ...
... language is clear and nervous , though some- times coarse ; and the principles of liberty are supported with a bold and manly spirit , and with no subserviency to faction or cabal . The fourth edition of Cato's Letters was printed in ...
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... in the Speculatist , he was , to adopt the language of the * Memoirs of the Society of Grub - street , Preface , p . 12 . Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 32 . annotator on Pope , " the author of several dull 68 ENUMERATION OF.
... in the Speculatist , he was , to adopt the language of the * Memoirs of the Society of Grub - street , Preface , p . 12 . Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 32 . annotator on Pope , " the author of several dull 68 ENUMERATION OF.
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... language , he was sent to the free - school at Lichfield , where , under the care of two very able masters , he made a rapid progress in classical literature . At the age of fifteen , and in the year 1725 , he resided for some months ...
... language , he was sent to the free - school at Lichfield , where , under the care of two very able masters , he made a rapid progress in classical literature . At the age of fifteen , and in the year 1725 , he resided for some months ...
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Página 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Página 134 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Página 398 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Página 301 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
Página 301 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 193 - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Página 330 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
Página 248 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.