Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2J. Sharpe, 1805 - 472 páginas |
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... writers of the Elizabethan age merit much praise for the improvements which they effected in the diction of their fathers , they are still , in their prose compositions , abundantly quaint , uncouth , and tedious . They pared away , it ...
... writers of the Elizabethan age merit much praise for the improvements which they effected in the diction of their fathers , they are still , in their prose compositions , abundantly quaint , uncouth , and tedious . They pared away , it ...
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... writers of Elizabeth's reign . If his language abound too much in inversions , it yet possesses a dignity and force , and in general an attention to grammatical accuracy , hitherto unknown to our literature . Even in the present day it ...
... writers of Elizabeth's reign . If his language abound too much in inversions , it yet possesses a dignity and force , and in general an attention to grammatical accuracy , hitherto unknown to our literature . Even in the present day it ...
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... writers would affect to revive at present . " The observation is well founded ; the diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions , than that of any other writer of the age of Eliza- beth or James the ...
... writers would affect to revive at present . " The observation is well founded ; the diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions , than that of any other writer of the age of Eliza- beth or James the ...
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... writers , has been copiously traced by Dr. Ferriar through the folio of Burton . As a specimen of the style of this very curious and amusing work , I have chosen an eulogium upon fishing ; this , among other sports and exercises ...
... writers , has been copiously traced by Dr. Ferriar through the folio of Burton . As a specimen of the style of this very curious and amusing work , I have chosen an eulogium upon fishing ; this , among other sports and exercises ...
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... writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660 , including SIDNEY , HOOKER , RALEIGH , BACON , BURTON , BROWNE , and MILTON , it will appear that our language during this period was formed upon no regular or legitimate model . Each author ...
... writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660 , including SIDNEY , HOOKER , RALEIGH , BACON , BURTON , BROWNE , and MILTON , it will appear that our language during this period was formed upon no regular or legitimate model . Each author ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.