The British Essayists, Volym 1Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Sida xxxi
... earned their best fame . If the custom of the world is in many cases still too powerful , it is at least without excuse . Men may be pre- cipitated into crimes by a false notion of honour ; BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxxi.
... earned their best fame . If the custom of the world is in many cases still too powerful , it is at least without excuse . Men may be pre- cipitated into crimes by a false notion of honour ; BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxxi.
Sida xxxii
... honour , yet sometimes with notions rather gay and loose ; in the other , œconomy , snugness , integrity , and some prejudices of pretty high antiquity . When , however , successful commerce af- forded the latter the means , there soon ...
... honour , yet sometimes with notions rather gay and loose ; in the other , œconomy , snugness , integrity , and some prejudices of pretty high antiquity . When , however , successful commerce af- forded the latter the means , there soon ...
Sida xxxiv
... honour and honesty , and the consequent opinion that a debt contracted at the card- table is more obligatory than one contracted in trade . Few principles will appear more detestable than this , if it be fairly examined ; and the MAN OF ...
... honour and honesty , and the consequent opinion that a debt contracted at the card- table is more obligatory than one contracted in trade . Few principles will appear more detestable than this , if it be fairly examined ; and the MAN OF ...
Sida xlii
... honour as an author , than to his advan- tage as a man ; for he informs us that the re- buffs he met with , instead of encouragements for his declarations in regard to religion , laid him under a necessity of enlivening his cha- racter ...
... honour as an author , than to his advan- tage as a man ; for he informs us that the re- buffs he met with , instead of encouragements for his declarations in regard to religion , laid him under a necessity of enlivening his cha- racter ...
Sida xlv
... honour retract , or give up the real author , when matters came to be more sericus . MOORE , indeed , speaks lightly of STEELE'S punishment : Had matters been carried to extremities against that gentleman ( STEELE ) on account of that ...
... honour retract , or give up the real author , when matters came to be more sericus . MOORE , indeed , speaks lightly of STEELE'S punishment : Had matters been carried to extremities against that gentleman ( STEELE ) on account of that ...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces Historical and Biographical Alexander Chalmers Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1808 |
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Sida 258 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Sida v - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Sida 258 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,- whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Sida vi - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Sida 258 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Sida 258 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them thatU will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity.
Sida 93 - The ships unmoved the boist'rous winds defy, While rattling chariots o'er the ocean fly. The vast leviathan wants room to play, And spout his waters in the face of day; The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. For many a shining league the level main Here spreads itself into a glassy plain; There solid billows of enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.
Sida 258 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Sida lxxiii - The general Purpose of the whole has been to recommend Truth, Innocence, Honour, and Virtue, as the chief Ornaments of Life; but I considered, that Severity of Manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that Reason, and that only, chose to talk in a Mask.
Sida 258 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus...