The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 13
עמוד 2
... poets , who endeavour rather to fill the mind with great conceptions , than to divert it with such as are new and surprising , have seldom any thing in them that can be called wit . Mr. Locke's account of wit , with this short explana ...
... poets , who endeavour rather to fill the mind with great conceptions , than to divert it with such as are new and surprising , have seldom any thing in them that can be called wit . Mr. Locke's account of wit , with this short explana ...
עמוד 3
... poets , has every where rejected it with scorn . If we look after mixt wit among the Greek writers , we shall find it no where but in the epigrammatists . There are indeed some strokes of it in the little poem ascribed to Musæus , which ...
... poets , has every where rejected it with scorn . If we look after mixt wit among the Greek writers , we shall find it no where but in the epigrammatists . There are indeed some strokes of it in the little poem ascribed to Musæus , which ...
עמוד 4
... poets therefore have taken an advantage from the double meaning of the word fire , to make an infinite number of witticisms . Cowley observing the cold regard of his mistress's eyes , and at the same time their power of producing love ...
... poets therefore have taken an advantage from the double meaning of the word fire , to make an infinite number of witticisms . Cowley observing the cold regard of his mistress's eyes , and at the same time their power of producing love ...
עמוד 6
... Poets who want this strength of genius to give that majestic simplicity to nature , which we so much admire in the works of the ancients , are forced to hunt after foreign ornaments , and not to let any piece of wit of what kind soever ...
... Poets who want this strength of genius to give that majestic simplicity to nature , which we so much admire in the works of the ancients , are forced to hunt after foreign ornaments , and not to let any piece of wit of what kind soever ...
עמוד 7
... poets , as well as readers , is extremely Gothic . He quotes Mon- sieur Segrais for a threefold distinction of the readers of poetry ; in the first of which he comprehends the rabble of readers , whom he does not treat as such with ...
... poets , as well as readers , is extremely Gothic . He quotes Mon- sieur Segrais for a threefold distinction of the readers of poetry ; in the first of which he comprehends the rabble of readers , whom he does not treat as such with ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 235 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
עמוד 282 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world : if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public...
עמוד 233 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean...
עמוד 236 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
עמוד 237 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother.
עמוד 43 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
עמוד 138 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
עמוד 213 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction.
עמוד 212 - Roger, found me out this gentleman who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is.
עמוד 212 - Greek at his own table ; for which reason, he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.