Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1774 |
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... Notes will be fometimes adjoined , for the Explanation of ob- fcure Paffages , or obfolete Expreffions ; and Care will be taken to mingle Ufe and Pleasure through the whole Collection . Notwithstanding every Subject may not be relished ...
... Notes will be fometimes adjoined , for the Explanation of ob- fcure Paffages , or obfolete Expreffions ; and Care will be taken to mingle Ufe and Pleasure through the whole Collection . Notwithstanding every Subject may not be relished ...
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... Notes with which the Text is accompanied , or for any Controverfy or Perfecution that it produced , or for the Peculiarity of any single Paffage . With the fame Care have the various Edi- tions of the Book of Common - Prayer been ...
... Notes with which the Text is accompanied , or for any Controverfy or Perfecution that it produced , or for the Peculiarity of any single Paffage . With the fame Care have the various Edi- tions of the Book of Common - Prayer been ...
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... Note of Exclusion , but not of Difgrace . The Words which are found only in particular Books , will be known by the fingle Name of him that has used them ; but fuch will be omitted , unless either their Propriety , Elegance , or Force ...
... Note of Exclusion , but not of Difgrace . The Words which are found only in particular Books , will be known by the fingle Name of him that has used them ; but fuch will be omitted , unless either their Propriety , Elegance , or Force ...
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... note Repetition , and un to fig- nify Contrariety or Privation , all the Examples can- not be accumulated , because the Ufe of thefe Parti- cles , if not wholly arbitrary , is fo little limited , that they are hourly affixed to new ...
... note Repetition , and un to fig- nify Contrariety or Privation , all the Examples can- not be accumulated , because the Ufe of thefe Parti- cles , if not wholly arbitrary , is fo little limited , that they are hourly affixed to new ...
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... note the Variation as Materials for future Criticks ; for it very often happens that a wrong Reading has Affinity to the right . In this Part all the prefent Editions are apparently and intentionally defective . The Criticks did not fo ...
... note the Variation as Materials for future Criticks ; for it very often happens that a wrong Reading has Affinity to the right . In this Part all the prefent Editions are apparently and intentionally defective . The Criticks did not fo ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 318 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 203 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 316 - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
Página 98 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 149 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 320 - Improve his heady rage with treach'rous skill, And mould his passions till they make his will..
Página 98 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 84 - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
Página 113 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Página 297 - ... mind ; which in his case, as in the case of all who are distressed with the same malady of imagination, transfers to others its own feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, 'Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind.