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... give them an unpleasing sameness . While yet engaged in this publication , he was car- ried off by an inflammation of the lungs in February , 1757 , at the age of forty - five . He had published , in 1756 , a collection of his b3 3 ...
... give them an unpleasing sameness . While yet engaged in this publication , he was car- ried off by an inflammation of the lungs in February , 1757 , at the age of forty - five . He had published , in 1756 , a collection of his b3 3 ...
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... give easy credit to professions and appearances ; but he respected virtue , and had warm feelings for the rights and interests of mankind . As an author , if he does not merit a place in the higher ranks , he has done enough to preserve ...
... give easy credit to professions and appearances ; but he respected virtue , and had warm feelings for the rights and interests of mankind . As an author , if he does not merit a place in the higher ranks , he has done enough to preserve ...
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... gives me an oppor- tunity , not only of making you my acknowledgments for the essays you have honoured me with , but also of informing the public to whom I have been obliged . That you may read this address without a blush , it shall ...
... gives me an oppor- tunity , not only of making you my acknowledgments for the essays you have honoured me with , but also of informing the public to whom I have been obliged . That you may read this address without a blush , it shall ...
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... gives common sense to philosophers , candour to disputants , modesty to critics , decency to men of fashion , and frugality to trades- For farther particulars inquire at the place above - mentioned , or of any of the king's and princes ...
... gives common sense to philosophers , candour to disputants , modesty to critics , decency to men of fashion , and frugality to trades- For farther particulars inquire at the place above - mentioned , or of any of the king's and princes ...
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... gives an air of dignity to a paper , and is a convincing proof that the author is a person of profound learn- ing and erudition . But in the opinion of those who are in the secret of such mottos , the custom is , as Shakspeare says ...
... gives an air of dignity to a paper , and is a convincing proof that the author is a person of profound learn- ing and erudition . But in the opinion of those who are in the secret of such mottos , the custom is , as Shakspeare says ...
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Página 108 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Página 128 - Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western clime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus differs from the throng The spirit which inform'd thy awful song, Which bade thy potent voice protect thy country's fame.
Página 301 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 296 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 63 - I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject ; your man shan't stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBRoKE,
Página 224 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Página 315 - That if we inquire into the cause of all human corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the impunity of crimes, and not from the moderation of punishments.
Página 337 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Página 254 - ... them; and thus, often misled by sounds, and not always secured by sense, they are hurried into fatal errors, which they do not give their understandings fair play enough to prevent. In explaining words, therefore, and bringing them back to their true signification, one may sometimes happen to expose and explode those errors, which the abuse of them both occasions and protects.
Página 40 - I venture to prognosticate will not attend the erroneous calculation of the present system. The day I mean is the first of April. The oldest tradition affirms that such an infatuation attends the first day of that month, as no foresight can escape, no vigilance can defeat. Deceit is successful on that day out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Grave citizens have been bit upon it; usurers have lent their money on bad security; experienced matrons have married very disappointing young fellows;...