Letters and Essays in Prose and VerseE. Moxon, 1834 - 268 страница |
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... as he is passed in the race by his competitors , he will be inclined to lie down in the dust , with his little heart full of despair , and perhaps full of envy too . There was one observation which we agreed in- I never 24.
... as he is passed in the race by his competitors , he will be inclined to lie down in the dust , with his little heart full of despair , and perhaps full of envy too . There was one observation which we agreed in- I never 24.
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... hearts 99 No was even more disgusted than the audience , though they hissed , God bless them ! most virtuously . This diseased appetite for praise , even from the weak and unprincipled , has become both prevalent and contagious ; but ...
... hearts 99 No was even more disgusted than the audience , though they hissed , God bless them ! most virtuously . This diseased appetite for praise , even from the weak and unprincipled , has become both prevalent and contagious ; but ...
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... heart full of hopes and brave resolutions . You well know that I not only wish , but that I am anxious for your success in life and I have confidence in your capacity . How- ever , my favourable anticipations arise chiefly from your ...
... heart full of hopes and brave resolutions . You well know that I not only wish , but that I am anxious for your success in life and I have confidence in your capacity . How- ever , my favourable anticipations arise chiefly from your ...
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... heart . As to the imitative words that you speak of , you need not trouble yourself about them . " Suiting " the sound to the sense " has another and a better meaning , but it will seldom be graceful unless unsought . Milton is very ...
... heart . As to the imitative words that you speak of , you need not trouble yourself about them . " Suiting " the sound to the sense " has another and a better meaning , but it will seldom be graceful unless unsought . Milton is very ...
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... heart " An amusing and hardly credible instance of its effect is related of Ghino di Tacco ( mentioned both by Dante and Boccaccio , ) a high- way - man , who was knighted by the pope for robbing genteelly . Of this civility the trouble ...
... heart " An amusing and hardly credible instance of its effect is related of Ghino di Tacco ( mentioned both by Dante and Boccaccio , ) a high- way - man , who was knighted by the pope for robbing genteelly . Of this civility the trouble ...
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Страница 9 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Страница 8 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the pure sources of genuine diction.
Страница 150 - It is evident how much men love to deceive and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful instrument of error and deceit, has its established professors, is publicly taught, and has always been had in great reputation...
Страница 10 - The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
Страница 47 - THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. LET* Observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life^ Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where...
Страница 153 - Il faut dans tous les arts se donner bien de garde de ces définitions trompeuses, par lesquelles nous osons exclure toutes les beautés qui nous sont inconnues, ou que la coutume ne nous a point encore rendues familières.
Страница 175 - Besides words, which are names of ideas in the mind, there are a great many others that are made use of, to signify the connexion that the mind gives to ideas or propositions one with another.
Страница 40 - Efforts, it must not be forgotten, are as indispensable as desires. The globe is not to be circumnavigated by one "wind. We should never do nothing. ' It is better to wear out than to rust out,
Страница 53 - You charge me fifty sequins," said the Venetian nobleman to the sculptor, " for a bust that cost you only ten days' labour." " You forget," said the artist, " that I have been thirty years learning to make that bust in ten days.
Страница 39 - ... and unimproved, if men had nicely compared the effect of a single stroke of the chisel with the pyramid to be raised, or of a single impression of the spade with the mountain to be levelled.