Letters and Essays in Prose and VerseE. Moxon, 1834 - 268 страница |
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... and the love of distinction . You will now understand why I was glad to hear that you are going with your sisters , no farther than to Brighton . There Coke and Blackstone will help F you profitably ( and why not pleasantly ? ) through 65.
... and the love of distinction . You will now understand why I was glad to hear that you are going with your sisters , no farther than to Brighton . There Coke and Blackstone will help F you profitably ( and why not pleasantly ? ) through 65.
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... hear that you have already subdued and cast out the blue devils that beset you . Some men are possessed by another and a more dangerous kind , which enter the voluptuous , the vain , the idle and the unprincipled ; but they must be ...
... hear that you have already subdued and cast out the blue devils that beset you . Some men are possessed by another and a more dangerous kind , which enter the voluptuous , the vain , the idle and the unprincipled ; but they must be ...
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... hear me patiently . The discourse shall be very short , and you must not attribute my advice to self - sufficiency , for it is often founded on my own mistakes . It would be needless to repeat what I wrote , long since , to a friend of ...
... hear me patiently . The discourse shall be very short , and you must not attribute my advice to self - sufficiency , for it is often founded on my own mistakes . It would be needless to repeat what I wrote , long since , to a friend of ...
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... hear with perfect plea- sure a compliment paid to her own daughter's rival charms and no aspiring public man can " bear a " brother near the throne " All solitary enjoyments quickly pall , or become painful , so that , perhaps , no more ...
... hear with perfect plea- sure a compliment paid to her own daughter's rival charms and no aspiring public man can " bear a " brother near the throne " All solitary enjoyments quickly pall , or become painful , so that , perhaps , no more ...
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... that you are ignorant , weak and profligate . " Don't be alarmed ! - ' Tis the last time you will " hear the truth , even from me . Adieu ! je vais vous adorer . " " ON VISITING - ACQUAINTANCE . A LADY complaining that her 139.
... that you are ignorant , weak and profligate . " Don't be alarmed ! - ' Tis the last time you will " hear the truth , even from me . Adieu ! je vais vous adorer . " " ON VISITING - ACQUAINTANCE . A LADY complaining that her 139.
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acquainted amusement ancient Aristotle beauty behold better blessing brave breathe C'est called charms chuse Cicero common delight Dugald Stewart elegant eloquence English Essay evil excellent eyes fair fame fear feel forget forms of speech fortune Fredley Ghino di Tacco give grace habits happy hear heart heav'n Helvetius honest honour hope human idioms instances JOHN FELL joys kind language Latin laws listen living look Lord Lord Chatham Louis XV manner means mind moral nature never night o'er once opinion order 66 passion perhaps philosophy pleasure poetry praise Quintilian rank rich Satire of Juvenal scarcely seldom sentiments Silius Italicus SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH sometimes speak spirit style sure sweet talents Thaxted thee thou thoughts Thucydides tongue truly trust truth Turgot verse virtues walk William Gerard Hamilton wish writers young youth
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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.