Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II].A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh., 1765 |
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... never to complain . Finding now the judgement of the public to be favourable , ought he not to draw fatis- faction from it ? He would be devoid of fenfibility were he not greatly fatisfied . Ma- ny criticisms have indeed reached his ear ...
... never to complain . Finding now the judgement of the public to be favourable , ought he not to draw fatis- faction from it ? He would be devoid of fenfibility were he not greatly fatisfied . Ma- ny criticisms have indeed reached his ear ...
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... has now an additional motive to virtue , a conviction derived from experience , that happiness depends on re- gularity and order , and that a difregard to juftice or 1 or propriety never fails to be punished with fhame and ΙΟ INTRODUCTION .
... has now an additional motive to virtue , a conviction derived from experience , that happiness depends on re- gularity and order , and that a difregard to juftice or 1 or propriety never fails to be punished with fhame and ΙΟ INTRODUCTION .
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... never once have entered his thoughts ! It could not furely be his opinion , * Genius is allied to a warm and inflamable conftitution , deli- cacy of taste to calmnefs and fedatenefs . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a ...
... never once have entered his thoughts ! It could not furely be his opinion , * Genius is allied to a warm and inflamable conftitution , deli- cacy of taste to calmnefs and fedatenefs . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a ...
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... never relishes . Writers , one should imagine , ought , above all others , to be referved upon that article , when they lie fo o- pen to retaliation . The author of this treatise , far from being confident of meriting no cenfure ...
... never relishes . Writers , one should imagine , ought , above all others , to be referved upon that article , when they lie fo o- pen to retaliation . The author of this treatise , far from being confident of meriting no cenfure ...
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... never juftify the introduction of it in its natural appearance : a relation fo flight can never be relished : Diftruft in lovers is too warm a fun ; But yet ' tis night in love when that is gone . And in those climes which moft his ...
... never juftify the introduction of it in its natural appearance : a relation fo flight can never be relished : Diftruft in lovers is too warm a fun ; But yet ' tis night in love when that is gone . And in those climes which moft his ...
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Seite 272 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 496 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Seite 146 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Seite 66 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Seite 269 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Seite 492 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Seite 377 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Seite 146 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Seite 126 - Out upon her ! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise ; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
Seite 66 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.