Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1774 |
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... feems willing to aflign them ; that there is neither Praife nor Meat for all who write , is apparent from this ; that , like Wolves in long Winters , they are forced to prey one on another . The Reviewers and Critical Review- ers , the ...
... feems willing to aflign them ; that there is neither Praife nor Meat for all who write , is apparent from this ; that , like Wolves in long Winters , they are forced to prey one on another . The Reviewers and Critical Review- ers , the ...
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... feems to require nothing more than that our Lan- guage be confidered , fo far as it is our own ; that the Words and Phrafes ufed in the general Intercourse of Life , or found in the Works of thofe whom we commonly ftile polite Writers ...
... feems to require nothing more than that our Lan- guage be confidered , fo far as it is our own ; that the Words and Phrafes ufed in the general Intercourse of Life , or found in the Works of thofe whom we commonly ftile polite Writers ...
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... feems neceffary to the Completion of a Dic- tionary defigned not merely for Critics , but for po- pular Ufe , that it should comprife , in fome Degree , * Milton the * the peculiar Words of every Profeffion ; that the 34 PLAN OF AN ...
... feems neceffary to the Completion of a Dic- tionary defigned not merely for Critics , but for po- pular Ufe , that it should comprife , in fome Degree , * Milton the * the peculiar Words of every Profeffion ; that the 34 PLAN OF AN ...
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... feems of no great Ufe to fet down the Words Horfe , Dog , Cat , Willow , Alder , Dafy , Rofe , and a thousand others , of which it will be hard to give an Explana- tion , not more obfcure than the Word itfelf . Yet it is to be ...
... feems of no great Ufe to fet down the Words Horfe , Dog , Cat , Willow , Alder , Dafy , Rofe , and a thousand others , of which it will be hard to give an Explana- tion , not more obfcure than the Word itfelf . Yet it is to be ...
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... feems not proper to omit them , fince it is rather to be wished that many Readers fhould find more than they expect , than that one fhould miss what he might hope to find . * When all the Words are felected and arranged , the first Part ...
... feems not proper to omit them , fince it is rather to be wished that many Readers fhould find more than they expect , than that one fhould miss what he might hope to find . * When all the Words are felected and arranged , the first Part ...
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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.