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Then would hee tell them stories of such gallants as hee had known : and so with
pleasant companie beguiled the time ' s haste , and shortned the waie ' s length ,
till they came to the side of the wood , where the hounds were in couples ...
Then would hee tell them stories of such gallants as hee had known : and so with
pleasant companie beguiled the time ' s haste , and shortned the waie ' s length ,
till they came to the side of the wood , where the hounds were in couples ...
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... and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted , and that there be nothing
adverse in our elimate or the fate of this age , it haply would be no rashness ,
from an equal diligence and inclination , to present the like offer in our antient
stories .
... and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted , and that there be nothing
adverse in our elimate or the fate of this age , it haply would be no rashness ,
from an equal diligence and inclination , to present the like offer in our antient
stories .
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... story , the sun gets up higher , till he shews a fair face and a full light , and then
he shines one whole day , under a cloud often , and sometimes weeping great
and little showers , and sets quickly : so is a man OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . , 45 .
... story , the sun gets up higher , till he shews a fair face and a full light , and then
he shines one whole day , under a cloud often , and sometimes weeping great
and little showers , and sets quickly : so is a man OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . , 45 .
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... have found in his works the best and truest principles of all their sciences or
arts , but that the noblest nations have derived from them the original , or their
several races , though it be hardly yet agreed , whether his story be true , or
fiction .
... have found in his works the best and truest principles of all their sciences or
arts , but that the noblest nations have derived from them the original , or their
several races , though it be hardly yet agreed , whether his story be true , or
fiction .
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mies , or ministers of state , as any the most renowned in story * . ” • We now
approach an author of distinguished fame . Dryden , in prose as in verse , has
attained to great excellence . No writer , indeed , seems to have studied the
genius of ...
mies , or ministers of state , as any the most renowned in story * . ” • We now
approach an author of distinguished fame . Dryden , in prose as in verse , has
attained to great excellence . No writer , indeed , seems to have studied the
genius of ...
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Seite 37 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases...
Seite 102 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion: when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with...
Seite 38 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 33 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Seite 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.
Seite 35 - ... poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Seite 3 - 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 might be expressed.
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| Titel | Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Band 2 Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Nathan Drake |
| Autor/in | Nathan Drake |
| Verlag | J. Sharpe, 1805 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Sept. 2006 |
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