The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 46
עמוד 7
... Writers not to be despised 146. An Account of an Author travelling in Quest of his own Character - the Un- certainty of Fame 147. The Courtier's Esteem of Assurance 148. The Cruelty of parental Tyranny 149. Benefits not always intitled ...
... Writers not to be despised 146. An Account of an Author travelling in Quest of his own Character - the Un- certainty of Fame 147. The Courtier's Esteem of Assurance 148. The Cruelty of parental Tyranny 149. Benefits not always intitled ...
עמוד 9
... writers relieved weariness , and awakened expec- tation . I have , indeed , hitherto avoided the practice of uniting gay and solemn subjects in the same paper , because it seems absurd for an author to counter act himself , to press at ...
... writers relieved weariness , and awakened expec- tation . I have , indeed , hitherto avoided the practice of uniting gay and solemn subjects in the same paper , because it seems absurd for an author to counter act himself , to press at ...
עמוד 74
... writer , for a garret , in his description of the lofty towers of serene learning , and of the pleasure with which a wise man looks down upon the confused and erratick state of the world moving below him . Sed nil dulcius est , bene ...
... writer , for a garret , in his description of the lofty towers of serene learning , and of the pleasure with which a wise man looks down upon the confused and erratick state of the world moving below him . Sed nil dulcius est , bene ...
עמוד 86
... writers friends to human happiness , who endeavour to excite in either sex a general contempt or suspicion of the other . To persuade them who are entering the world , and looking abroad for a suitable associate , that all are equally ...
... writers friends to human happiness , who endeavour to excite in either sex a general contempt or suspicion of the other . To persuade them who are entering the world , and looking abroad for a suitable associate , that all are equally ...
עמוד 107
... writer has a more easy task than the histo- rian . The philosopher has the works of omnis- cience to examine ; and is therefore engaged in disquisitions , to which finite intellects are utterly unequal . The poet trusts to his invention ...
... writer has a more easy task than the histo- rian . The philosopher has the works of omnis- cience to examine ; and is therefore engaged in disquisitions , to which finite intellects are utterly unequal . The poet trusts to his invention ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Ajax alac amusement Arim Aristotle attention Aureng-Zebe beauty calamity celebrated censure common considered contempt cowardice curiosity Dagon danger daugh delight desire dignity discovered dread easily elegance eminence endeavour envy equal excellence expected eyes fame favour fear felicity fill folly force fortune frequently gain genius gratify happiness heart honour hope hour human idle ignorance Iliad imagination inclination indulgence inquiry JUNE 25 justly knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lest Long con mankind medicated gloves ment mind minth miscarriage misery nature necessary negligence nerally ness never observed once opinion OVID passions perhaps perpetual pleasure portunity praise produce prudence publick raise RAMBLER reason regard reproach Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sion solicited sometimes soon suffer sufficient superaddition surely tain thing thou thought tion TUESDAY Virgil virtue wars of Troy writers
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 190 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
עמוד 182 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
עמוד 189 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
עמוד 102 - To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction. But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his stanza. His style was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Jonson boldly pronounces him
עמוד 188 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
עמוד 50 - For, who can congratulate himself upon a life passed 'without some act more mischievous to the peace or prosperity of others, than the theft of...
עמוד 189 - Out, out, hyaena! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee...
עמוד 271 - The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.
עמוד 163 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
עמוד 186 - Depress'd and overthrown as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust.