Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons, with critical and explanatory notes by the editor [R. Hurd]. With letters on chivalry and romance by mr. Hurd, Volume 2 |
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... itself , may well re- commend it to us . FOR , when every other fpecies of compofition has been tried , and men are grown fo faftidious as to receive with indifference the best modern productions , on account of the too common form ...
... itself , may well re- commend it to us . FOR , when every other fpecies of compofition has been tried , and men are grown fo faftidious as to receive with indifference the best modern productions , on account of the too common form ...
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... itself , all this is the proper fubject of another in- quiry . OUR concern , at prefent , is with LUCIAN'S Dialogue ; whether he were indeed the inventor of this fpecies , fpecies , or , after SOCRATES , only the espouser PREFACE . xxvii.
... itself , all this is the proper fubject of another in- quiry . OUR concern , at prefent , is with LUCIAN'S Dialogue ; whether he were indeed the inventor of this fpecies , fpecies , or , after SOCRATES , only the espouser PREFACE . xxvii.
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... itself at least , to give room for a just display of the philosophic . AND this , in fact , as I obferved , is the cafe in LUCIAN'S own Dia- logues . They are highly dramatic , in which part his force lay ; while his Philofophy ferves ...
... itself at least , to give room for a just display of the philosophic . AND this , in fact , as I obferved , is the cafe in LUCIAN'S own Dia- logues . They are highly dramatic , in which part his force lay ; while his Philofophy ferves ...
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... itself entirely by the rules of decorum , and gives a juft and faith- ful image of what it would repre- fent : whereas the comic Dialogue , distorting , or , at least , aggravating the features of its original , pleases at fome expence ...
... itself entirely by the rules of decorum , and gives a juft and faith- ful image of what it would repre- fent : whereas the comic Dialogue , distorting , or , at least , aggravating the features of its original , pleases at fome expence ...
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... itself ; and fully obtains its purpose : the humorous or cha- racteristic , but partially ; and is , at beft , the faint copy of a higher fpecies , the Comic Drama . HOWEVER , the authority of Lu- CIAN is fo great , and the manner itself ...
... itself ; and fully obtains its purpose : the humorous or cha- racteristic , but partially ; and is , at beft , the faint copy of a higher fpecies , the Comic Drama . HOWEVER , the authority of Lu- CIAN is fo great , and the manner itself ...
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Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several ..., Volume 2 Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) Visualização integral - 1765 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ADDISON addrefs againſt almoſt amufing antient ARBUTHNOT becauſe befides beft BEN JOHNSON beſt bufinefs buſineſs cafe caufe character CICERO cifes circumſtances compofition confequence confideration converfation courſe court COWLEY COWLEY's deferve defign Dialogue difpofed eſpecially exprefs faid fame fancy favour fcene feem felf fenfe ferve fervice feven fhall fhew fhould fince firſt fituation fociety fome fomething fpeak fpirit ftill fubject fuch fuffered fuppofe fure genius hath higheſt himſelf honour houſe humour inftance intereft itſelf juft juſt laft leaſt lefs logue Lord Lord CLARENDON manner matter ment mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf obferve occafion pafs perfons Philofophy pleaſe pleaſure poetry poets prefent princes purpoſe racter reafon refumed reſpect retirement ſcene ſchool ſpeak ſpeakers ſtate ſtudies thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion truth underſtand uſe virtue WALLER whofe wiſdom writer yourſelf
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Página 117 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 128 - s closed sight, (The Muses oft in lands of vision play) Body'd, array'd, and seen, by an internal light. A golden harp with silver strings she bore; A wondrous hieroglyphic robe she wore, In which all colours and all figures were, That nature or that fancy can create, That art can...
Página 190 - I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Página 94 - Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from publick haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in ftones, and good in every thing.
Página 133 - Ah ! wanton foe, dost thou upbraid The ills which thou thyself hast made ? When in the cradle innocent I lay, Thou, wicked spirit, stolest me away, And my abused soul didst bear Into thy new-found worlds, I know not where...
Página 98 - Of" heav'nly reft this carneft to me lend, Let my life fleep, and learn to love her end. AND what if they, who have not the means of enjoying this...
Página 134 - To wash away the inherent dye : Long work perhaps may spoil thy colours quite; But never will reduce the native white. To all the ports of honour and of gain I often steer my course in vain : Thy gale comes cross, and drives me back again.
Página 94 - Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book...
Página 132 - Leah left, thy recompence to be ! Go on: twice seven years more thy fortune try; Twice seven years more God in his bounty may Give thee, to fling away Into the court's deceitful lottery: But think how likely 'tis that thou, With the dull work of thy unwieldy plough...
Página 128 - A wondrous hieroglyphick robe she wore, In which all colours and all figures were, That nature or that fancy can create, That art can never imitate; And with loose pride it wanton'd in the air. In such a dress, in such a well-cloth'd dream, She us'd, of old, near fair Ismenus' stream, Pindar, her Theban favourite, to meet ; A crown was on her head, and wings were on her feet.