An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 páginas |
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... humour , and erudition . If we admit this enco- mium in its fullest extent ( which I am very far from doing ) , it will only prove that the novel is the more dangerous ; because these real or fancied qualities are precisely what make it ...
... humour , and erudition . If we admit this enco- mium in its fullest extent ( which I am very far from doing ) , it will only prove that the novel is the more dangerous ; because these real or fancied qualities are precisely what make it ...
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... humour of Tom Jones ; and if so , my last observation will apply with undiminish- ed force : this humour is unpalatable to minds not contaminated . In speaking of the Beggar's Opera , and its alleged 39.
... humour of Tom Jones ; and if so , my last observation will apply with undiminish- ed force : this humour is unpalatable to minds not contaminated . In speaking of the Beggar's Opera , and its alleged 39.
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... humour ; in the richest and most correct descriptions ; and in inci- dents irresistibly pathetic , or replete with comic force : for the author is a master , and touches every chord of hu- man sensibility with a master's hand . But the ...
... humour ; in the richest and most correct descriptions ; and in inci- dents irresistibly pathetic , or replete with comic force : for the author is a master , and touches every chord of hu- man sensibility with a master's hand . But the ...
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... read- ers so sparingly gifted with understand- ing as to be misled by them ; of tastes so perverted as to be amused by such ill- digested stuff , or possessing so feeble a sense of humour , as to resist laughing at the L ...
... read- ers so sparingly gifted with understand- ing as to be misled by them ; of tastes so perverted as to be amused by such ill- digested stuff , or possessing so feeble a sense of humour , as to resist laughing at the L ...
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... humour , as to resist laughing at the amazing absurdities they contain . Amongst our importations , I shall take a short view only of one : for in- stance , The Sorrows or , as they have been newly termed , The Letters of Wer- ter ...
... humour , as to resist laughing at the amazing absurdities they contain . Amongst our importations , I shall take a short view only of one : for in- stance , The Sorrows or , as they have been newly termed , The Letters of Wer- ter ...
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Página 175 - Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Página 176 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
Página 189 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
Página 188 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 142 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Página 168 - ... Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Página 167 - Far to the right, where Apennine ascends, Bright as the summer, Italy extends ; Its uplands sloping deck the mountain's side, Woods over woods in gay theatric pride; While oft some temple's mould'ring tops between With venerable grandeur mark the scene.
Página 173 - His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 174 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were giv'n, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heav'n. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 183 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.