Select British Classics, Volym 37J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... flowing robe or mantle , inclosed in a circle of foliages . Below his portraiture , for our farther satisfaction as to the age of that useful writer , is subscribed " Johannes ،، Ward de civitat . Cestra , atat . sua 58. THE ...
... flowing robe or mantle , inclosed in a circle of foliages . Below his portraiture , for our farther satisfaction as to the age of that useful writer , is subscribed " Johannes ،، Ward de civitat . Cestra , atat . sua 58. THE ...
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... writers , joined with the great encouragement I observe is given to another , or what is indeed to be suspected , in which he indulges himself , confirmed me in the notion I have of the prevalence of ambition this way . The author whom ...
... writers , joined with the great encouragement I observe is given to another , or what is indeed to be suspected , in which he indulges himself , confirmed me in the notion I have of the prevalence of ambition this way . The author whom ...
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... writing an heroic poem as making a fervent prayer . When men are thus low and narrow in their apprehensions of things , and at the same time vain , they are naturally led to think every thing they do not understand , not to be ...
... writing an heroic poem as making a fervent prayer . When men are thus low and narrow in their apprehensions of things , and at the same time vain , they are naturally led to think every thing they do not understand , not to be ...
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... writers as this , who have no spirit but that of malice , pretend to inform the age , mohocks and cut - throats may well set up for wits and men of pleasure . It will be perhaps expected that I should produce some instances of the ill ...
... writers as this , who have no spirit but that of malice , pretend to inform the age , mohocks and cut - throats may well set up for wits and men of pleasure . It will be perhaps expected that I should produce some instances of the ill ...
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... writer not to be mercenary , yet the great man is no more in reason to thank him for his picture in a Dedication , than to thank a painter for that on a sign - post , except it be a less injury to touch the most sacred part of him , his ...
... writer not to be mercenary , yet the great man is no more in reason to thank him for his picture in a Dedication , than to thank a painter for that on a sign - post , except it be a less injury to touch the most sacred part of him , his ...
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Sida 181 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Sida 259 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Sida 163 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Sida 300 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Sida 198 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Sida 277 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few ., Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Sida 107 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Sida 398 - To Make an Episode. — Take any remaining adventure of your former collection, in which you could no way involve your hero; or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away; and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work, without the least damage to the composition.
Sida 213 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Sida 164 - Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song : Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage. Such plays alone should please a British ear, As Cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. ' Britons attend .-] Altered thus by the author, from " Britons arise," to humour, we are told, the timid delicacy of Mr.