The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 17-18 |
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... ...... . 93. The Prejudices and Caprices of Criti- eism 94. An Inquiry how far Milton has accom- modated the Sound to the Sense ... 95. The History of Pertinax the Sceptic . JOHNSON No. 96. Truth , Falsehood , and Fiction , an vi CONTENTS .
... ...... . 93. The Prejudices and Caprices of Criti- eism 94. An Inquiry how far Milton has accom- modated the Sound to the Sense ... 95. The History of Pertinax the Sceptic . JOHNSON No. 96. Truth , Falsehood , and Fiction , an vi CONTENTS .
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... inquiry every favourite prejudice , every innate desire , is busy to deceive us . We are unhappy , at least less happy than our nature seems to admit ; we necessarily desire the melioration of our lot ; what we desire we very reasonably ...
... inquiry every favourite prejudice , every innate desire , is busy to deceive us . We are unhappy , at least less happy than our nature seems to admit ; we necessarily desire the melioration of our lot ; what we desire we very reasonably ...
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... inquiry and experiment , and he that steadily en- deavours at excellence , in whatever employment , will more benefit mankind than he that hesitates in choos- ing his part till he is called to the performance . The traveller that ...
... inquiry and experiment , and he that steadily en- deavours at excellence , in whatever employment , will more benefit mankind than he that hesitates in choos- ing his part till he is called to the performance . The traveller that ...
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... inquiry as want of confidence , and to confer their regard on no other terms than unreserved submission and implicit compliance . Some are dark and in- volved , equally careful to conceal good and bad pur- poses ; and pleased with ...
... inquiry as want of confidence , and to confer their regard on no other terms than unreserved submission and implicit compliance . Some are dark and in- volved , equally careful to conceal good and bad pur- poses ; and pleased with ...
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... inquiry , and try what my own observation would discover : but seeing a young man , gay and thought- less , I resolved upon one more experiment , and was informed that I was in the garden of Hope , the daughter of Desire , and that all ...
... inquiry , and try what my own observation would discover : but seeing a young man , gay and thought- less , I resolved upon one more experiment , and was informed that I was in the garden of Hope , the daughter of Desire , and that all ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty celebrated censure common considered contempt curiosity Dagon danger delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discovered DRYDEN easily elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes fancy father favour fear flattered folly fortune frequently genius gratify happiness heart hexameter honour hope hour human idleness imagination inclined inquiry JANUARY 26 judgement Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less live look mankind ment Milton mind miscarriage misery nature necessary neglect nerally ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions pauses perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets portunity praise precepts produce quired racters RAMBLER reason regard reproach rest risum Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sound spect suffer surely suspiria syllables thing thou thought tion tivate truth TUESDAY tural vanity verse VIRG Virgil virtue wisdom writer
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Página 167 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 33 - O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
Página 192 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Página 252 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Página 106 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Página 145 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
Página 248 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Página 136 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But...
Página 145 - Mosaic ; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature here, Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter none, Such was their awe of man.
Página 26 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...