Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Nide 2J. Sharpe, 1805 - 472 sivua |
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Sivu 26
... fancy . Milton , in consequence of this encroaching li- cence , began to introduce the Latin idiom : and Browne , though he gave less disturbance to our structures and phraseology , yet poured in a mul- titude of exotic words ; many ...
... fancy . Milton , in consequence of this encroaching li- cence , began to introduce the Latin idiom : and Browne , though he gave less disturbance to our structures and phraseology , yet poured in a mul- titude of exotic words ; many ...
Sivu 32
... fancy and of taste , he embraced a task which might expose him to obloquy and reproach . " Concerning this wayward subject against prelaty , " he remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a number of men , as ...
... fancy and of taste , he embraced a task which might expose him to obloquy and reproach . " Concerning this wayward subject against prelaty , " he remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a number of men , as ...
Sivu 43
... fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great , Continue , heav'n , still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love . “ I know very many men will despise , and some pity me for this humour , as a poor spirited fellow ...
... fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great , Continue , heav'n , still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love . “ I know very many men will despise , and some pity me for this humour , as a poor spirited fellow ...
Sivu 56
... fancy and a poetic ear , glowing figures and harmonious cadences ; to the latter , perspicuity and smoothness , verbal purity and unaffected ease . If Barrow be occasionally involved , harsh , or redundant , Tillotson is too ge- nerally ...
... fancy and a poetic ear , glowing figures and harmonious cadences ; to the latter , perspicuity and smoothness , verbal purity and unaffected ease . If Barrow be occasionally involved , harsh , or redundant , Tillotson is too ge- nerally ...
Sivu 84
... fancy of cooking up this doctrine into use , and apply the precept , in default of a sirloin , to his brown - loaf : Bread , says he , dear brothers , is the staff of life ; in which bread is contained , inclusive , the quintessence of ...
... fancy of cooking up this doctrine into use , and apply the precept , in default of a sirloin , to his brown - loaf : Bread , says he , dear brothers , is the staff of life ; in which bread is contained , inclusive , the quintessence of ...
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Addison admirable Anatomy of Melancholy ancient apologues appear Arabian beauty caliphs Canterbury Tales century character charms Chaucer Chimæra colours composition consider criticism crusade delight diction Ditto Dryden East edition effect elegant endeavours English English Poetry Essays excellent exhibited exquisite fable fairy fancy genius Geoffery grace guage hath heaven humour imagery imagination justly king language learned literary literature Lord manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never night observes opinion oriental passage period Persian perspicuity philosophy Pilpay pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry present productions prose racter reader remarks rich Roger de Coverley romance says second Crusade sense Shakspeare shew Simeon Seth simplicity Sir Roger species specimen Spectator spirit stars story style sublime supposed sweetness taste Tatler things third crusade thou tion verse whilst William of Malmesbury wonderful words writers written
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Sivu 34 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Sivu 113 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Sivu 13 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Sivu 46 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Sivu 20 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Sivu 101 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Sivu 37 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Sivu 36 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave ; whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to point out and describe.
Sivu 37 - ... reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as ' are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.
Sivu 2 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...