The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volumen6Charles Brockden Brown John Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... course rejected by lord North , when the motion was debated February 19 , 1781 ; but it was ably supported by Mr. Pitt , who , in his maiden speech , very forcibly ridiculed the objection , that it proposed to bring no more than 200,000 ...
... course rejected by lord North , when the motion was debated February 19 , 1781 ; but it was ably supported by Mr. Pitt , who , in his maiden speech , very forcibly ridiculed the objection , that it proposed to bring no more than 200,000 ...
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... course carried on with redoubled energy , and all the officers of the French marine , having been nobles , and consequent- ly suspected , either withdrew or were dismissed ; so that their ships of war , as well as their colonies ...
... course carried on with redoubled energy , and all the officers of the French marine , having been nobles , and consequent- ly suspected , either withdrew or were dismissed ; so that their ships of war , as well as their colonies ...
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... course of hopes and ex- pectations fixes the image in our minds , and habituates us to a fond- ness of the person beloved . There is nothing of so great im- portance to us as the good qualities of one to whom we join ourselves for life ...
... course of hopes and ex- pectations fixes the image in our minds , and habituates us to a fond- ness of the person beloved . There is nothing of so great im- portance to us as the good qualities of one to whom we join ourselves for life ...
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... course of vir- tue . For the Literary Magazine . LEARNED TRIFLING . GREAT men have sometimes been found as capable of trifling as foolish ones . The old maxim , Sa- pientes est desipere in loco , The wise may sometimes dare to play the ...
... course of vir- tue . For the Literary Magazine . LEARNED TRIFLING . GREAT men have sometimes been found as capable of trifling as foolish ones . The old maxim , Sa- pientes est desipere in loco , The wise may sometimes dare to play the ...
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... course was the very man to attempt it . Justice and generosity were the in- struments he employed ; and I saw the work of reformation so auspici- ously begun , and so steadily pursued by him , as convinced me that minds the most ...
... course was the very man to attempt it . Justice and generosity were the in- struments he employed ; and I saw the work of reformation so auspici- ously begun , and so steadily pursued by him , as convinced me that minds the most ...
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Página 147 - Tavern in a considerable body for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of a long table, and was the life and soul of the corps : the poet took post silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, all good men and true.
Página 148 - I thought it time to press the joke no further, and wrote a few couplets at a side-table, which, when I had finished and was called upon by the company to exhibit, Goldsmith with much agitation besought me to spare him, and I was about to tear them, when Johnson wrested them out of my hand, and in a loud voice read them at the table. I have now lost all recollection of them, and in fact they were little worth remembering, but as they were serious and complimentary, the effect they had upon Goldsmith...
Página 56 - ... more liable in general to err than man, but in general, also, more virtuous, and performing more good...
Página 149 - ... condition upon its future sale. Johnson described the precautions he took in concealing the amount of the sum he had in hand, which he prudently administered to him by a guinea at a time. In the event he paid off the landlady's score, and redeemed the person of his friend from her embraces. Goldsmith had the joy of finding his ingenious work succeed beyond his hopes, and from that time began to place a confidence in the resources of his talents, which thenceforward enabled him to keep his station...
Página 147 - I had the honour to be deputed to that office. I planted him in an upper box, pretty nearly over the stage, in full view of the pit and galleries, and perfectly well situated to give the echo all its play through the hollows and recesses of the theatre.
Página 31 - The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing motions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.
Página 95 - Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Página 363 - In this accomplished lady, love is the constant effect, because it is never the design. Yet, though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education...
Página 56 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Página 148 - Johnson his manuscript of The Vicar of Wakefield, but seemed to be without any plan or even hope, of raising money upon the disposal of it: when Johnson cast his eye upon it, he discovered something that gave him, hope, and immediately took it to Dodsley, who paid down the price above mentioned in ready money, and added an eventual condition upon its future sale.