Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, כרך 1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 53
עמוד 21
... genius , erudition , and accomplishments ; of Dr. Lacon , a physician ; of Sir Eustace Locker , whose favourite studies are metaphysics and theology ; of Sir Arthur Wimbleton , a widower , a man of uncommon beneficence and humanity ; of ...
... genius , erudition , and accomplishments ; of Dr. Lacon , a physician ; of Sir Eustace Locker , whose favourite studies are metaphysics and theology ; of Sir Arthur Wimbleton , a widower , a man of uncommon beneficence and humanity ; of ...
עמוד 29
... genius , and who furnished ( I won't say the former Spectators , but ) the Tatlers with a better fame than they would , perhaps , have ob- tained , if he had not lent his hand , and scattered life and lustre through these loose pages ...
... genius , and who furnished ( I won't say the former Spectators , but ) the Tatlers with a better fame than they would , perhaps , have ob- tained , if he had not lent his hand , and scattered life and lustre through these loose pages ...
עמוד 32
... genius and deli- cacy . This the publishers of the Censor knew so well , that they were obliged to give a new turn , both of character and dress to their performances . " Another disadvantage was , the vast multi- tude of papers that ...
... genius and deli- cacy . This the publishers of the Censor knew so well , that they were obliged to give a new turn , both of character and dress to their performances . " Another disadvantage was , the vast multi- tude of papers that ...
עמוד 36
... genius , but secluded and reserved in his life and manners . The Freethinker began its career on Monday , March 24th , 1718 ; was published twice a week , and terminated with the one hundred and fty - ninth paper , on Monday , September ...
... genius , but secluded and reserved in his life and manners . The Freethinker began its career on Monday , March 24th , 1718 ; was published twice a week , and terminated with the one hundred and fty - ninth paper , on Monday , September ...
עמוד 90
... genius depended on any two lives whatever . Those justly celebrated gentle- men have , certainly , a claim to be placed at the head of this Table of Fame , but the door ought not to be shut on their successors ; and among them , the ...
... genius depended on any two lives whatever . Those justly celebrated gentle- men have , certainly , a claim to be placed at the head of this Table of Fame , but the door ought not to be shut on their successors ; and among them , the ...
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Aaron Hill Addison admirable appeared beauty biographical booksellers Boswell Boswell's catalogue Cato's Letters celebrated character Cicero collection commenced composition correct critical death defects degree diction Dictionary Dunciad edition elegant English English Language entituled essays excellence favour genius Gentleman's Magazine given honour humour Idler imagination imitation Isaac Bickerstaff Johnson Journal justly labour language Latin learning letter Lichfield likewise literary literature Lives London Lord Lord Chesterfield manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never observes occasion occasionally octavo opinion original passage passion periodical papers perspicuous poem poetical poetry poets political Pope possess powers praise Preface printed production published racter Rambler Rasselas reader remarks Samuel Johnson satire satire of Juvenal says sentiments Shakspeare shew Sir John Hawkins soon specimens Spectator spirit Steele style taste Tatler thought tion translation volume writer written
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עמוד 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
עמוד 134 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
עמוד 398 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
עמוד 301 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
עמוד 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
עמוד 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
עמוד 301 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
עמוד 193 - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
עמוד 330 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
עמוד 248 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.