The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... the public to whom I have been obliged . That you may read this address without a blush , it shall have no flattery in it . To confess the truth , I mean to compliment myself ; and I know not X ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS TO.
... the public to whom I have been obliged . That you may read this address without a blush , it shall have no flattery in it . To confess the truth , I mean to compliment myself ; and I know not X ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS TO.
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... truth , I have serious reasons for avoiding the first of these subjects . A weak advocate may ruin a good cause . And if religion can be defended by no better argu- ments than some I have lately seen in the public papers and magazines ...
... truth , I have serious reasons for avoiding the first of these subjects . A weak advocate may ruin a good cause . And if religion can be defended by no better argu- ments than some I have lately seen in the public papers and magazines ...
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... truth , if we consider for a moment the nature and office of the people called critics . It is the nature of these people to be exceedingly dull ; and it is their office to pronounce decisively upon the merit and demerit of all works ...
... truth , if we consider for a moment the nature and office of the people called critics . It is the nature of these people to be exceedingly dull ; and it is their office to pronounce decisively upon the merit and demerit of all works ...
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... truth , bat very per- sonable geese . The inventor , like other original geniuses , was treated ill by a barbarous age : yet I can venture to affirm , that a stricter adherence to reality would have saved even those times from being ...
... truth , bat very per- sonable geese . The inventor , like other original geniuses , was treated ill by a barbarous age : yet I can venture to affirm , that a stricter adherence to reality would have saved even those times from being ...
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... truth , after having routed tinsel and trumpery , with the true zeal of a founder of a sect , he pushed his discipline to the deformity of holiness ; not content with banishing symmetry and regularity , he imitated nature even in her ...
... truth , after having routed tinsel and trumpery , with the true zeal of a founder of a sect , he pushed his discipline to the deformity of holiness ; not content with banishing symmetry and regularity , he imitated nature even in her ...
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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;...