A Journal of a Voyage to LisbonJ. Wenman, 1785 - 149 páginas |
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Página vi
... Nature is not , any more than a great genius , always admirable in her productions , and there- fore the traveller , who may be called her com- mentator , fhould not expect to find every where fubjects worthy of his notice . It is ...
... Nature is not , any more than a great genius , always admirable in her productions , and there- fore the traveller , who may be called her com- mentator , fhould not expect to find every where fubjects worthy of his notice . It is ...
Página viii
... nature hath been a moft parfimonious diftributer of her richest ta- lents , and hath feldom beftowed many on the fame perfon . But on the other hand , why there should fcarce exift a fingle writer of this kind , worthy our regard ; and ...
... nature hath been a moft parfimonious diftributer of her richest ta- lents , and hath feldom beftowed many on the fame perfon . But on the other hand , why there should fcarce exift a fingle writer of this kind , worthy our regard ; and ...
Página ix
... nature too ftrait for the immenfity of their genius , which they had not room to exert , without extending fact by ... nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herfelf , A S T or her journeyman the poet , formed the firft ...
... nature too ftrait for the immenfity of their genius , which they had not room to exert , without extending fact by ... nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herfelf , A S T or her journeyman the poet , formed the firft ...
Página x
... nature , to the hiftories of former ages , and to the experience of our own , and which no man can at once understand and believe . If it should be objected ( and it can no where be objected better than where I now write * , as there is ...
... nature , to the hiftories of former ages , and to the experience of our own , and which no man can at once understand and believe . If it should be objected ( and it can no where be objected better than where I now write * , as there is ...
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... nature could represent to me as worth holding at all ; the world may , I believe , without envy , allow me all the praife to which I have any title . My aim , in fact , was not praise , which is the laft gift they care to beltow ; at ...
... nature could represent to me as worth holding at all ; the world may , I believe , without envy , allow me all the praife to which I have any title . My aim , in fact , was not praise , which is the laft gift they care to beltow ; at ...
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