The Oxford English Prize Essays: A New Edition Brought Down to the Present Time, Volym 1D.A. Talboys, 1836 - 1590 sidor |
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Sida 11 - ... the manners without relation to the laws. Fashionable as it may be to complain of the roughness of British demeanour, the wary politician would use the file with caution, and leave those manners coarse which, by attempting to polish, he might weaken or impair. Where the constitution calls upon every man to assert his own independence, and has appointed each the guardian of his own freedom, few have leisure or inclination to pursue those refinements which necessarily engage the attention of a...
Sida 12 - He gracefully concludes with a compliment to his ALMA MATER: — "Where, then, shall we seek a remedy? Must it not be in that education which watches over the morals with the strictest vigilance, and, by fortifying the mind with the soundest principles of religion, enables it to pursue with safety those inferior accomplishments whose only merit is to heighten the beauty of virtue, and which become truly dangerous when they soften the deformities of vice?
Sida 180 - I. 1. Personal satire necessary to enforce obedience to general instructions. 2. Its abuse, when the subject is improperly chosen, when the manner is unsuitable to the subject, and when it proceeds from private animosity. "II. 1. Political satire, necessary for the general support of mixed governments. 2. Its abuse, when it tends to lessen the dignity of the supreme authority, to promote national division, or to weaken the spirit of patriotism. " III. 1. Moral satire, its use in exposing error, folly,...
Sida 7 - ... the boundaries of a small island, and, with the true spirit of ancient Greece and Italy, has adjudged every other people to be comparatively barbarous. This illiberal idea, it is confessed, has been attended with salutary consequences: it has aroused the soul of the warrior, and by teaching the brave defenders of our country to despise, it has taught them to conquer, her enemies. " But it may be discovered without any extraordinary acuteness of reasoning, that this opinion, which has been ratified...
Sida 88 - THE history of architecture, like that of other arts, marks out the progression of manners. Among the Dorians it carried with it the austerity of their national character, which displayed itself in their language and music. The lonians added to its original simplicity an elegance which has excited the universal admiration of posterity. The .Corinthians, a rich and luxurious people, not contented with former improvements, extended the art to the very verge of vicious refinement ; and thus (so connected...
Sida 205 - On the contrary, by the just exertions of satire personal licentiousness has frequently been restrained ; the establishments of kingdoms have been supported, and the precepts of morality and taste conveyed in a form the most alluring and efficacious. The success, however, of all those productions that have not been directed by virtue and justice, has been confined and transient, whatever genius or talents might be employed in their composition ; by the wise among their contemporaries they have been...
Sida 12 - ... Briton be taught to leave his distinguishing privilege — his liberty — without defence, whilst he affects these elegant improvements. " Some, influenced by reflections drawn from the ductility of youth, have recommended early travel for the more easy removal of national prejudices, not yet grown obstinate by duration. But perhaps experience has uniformly proved, that by an early expulsion of prepossessions in favour of our own country, we form an opening for the admission of opinions detrimental...
Sida 180 - Political satire, necessary for the general support of mixed governments. 2. Its abuse, when it tends to lessen the dignity of the supreme authority, to promote national division, or to weaken the spirit of patriotism. " III. 1. Moral satire, its use in exposing error, folly, and vice. 2. Its abuse, when applied as the test of truth, and when it tends to weaken the social affections. " IV. 1. Critical satire, its use in the introduction and support of correct taste. 2. Its abuse, when directed against...
Sida 188 - ... and of Johnson, are now no longer lessened by the wit of Swift, or the asperity of Churchill. "Even where the subject or design is not improperly chosen, abuse may still arise from the disposition and colouring of the piece. When bitterness and severity are employed against men whose failings may be venial and light, or ridicule degenerates either into the broad attacks of sarcastic buffoonery, or the unmanly treachery of dark hints and poisonous allusions, not only the particular punishment...
Sida 102 - We dwell with a romantic pleasure on these vestiges of former hospitality and munificence, the pride and ornament of England : that munificence which was open to all, but particularly to the noble and courteous, and to the minstrel, the honoured recorder of their splendour and festivity : thus exciting the first efforts of wit and fancy, and, therefore, largely contributing to the introduction of every species of polite learning z.