Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Band 3J. Sharpe, 1805 - 508 Seiten |
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... appear , and especially on subjects interesting to himself , the style , for the period he wrote in , is uncom- monly clear and brilliant . Dr. Johnson has de- clared , that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took ...
... appear , and especially on subjects interesting to himself , the style , for the period he wrote in , is uncom- monly clear and brilliant . Dr. Johnson has de- clared , that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took ...
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... appears to have arisen from an indiscriminate adoption of classical arrangement in the structure of his sentences . This , though it impart an air of dig- nity and forced splendour to his composition , has too often rendered his pages ...
... appears to have arisen from an indiscriminate adoption of classical arrangement in the structure of his sentences . This , though it impart an air of dig- nity and forced splendour to his composition , has too often rendered his pages ...
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... , may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some D 2 OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C . 35.
... , may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some D 2 OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C . 35.
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... appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult indeed . " " The accomplishment of these things , " he proceeds , " lies not but in a power above man's to promise ; but that none hath by more studious ...
... appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult indeed . " " The accomplishment of these things , " he proceeds , " lies not but in a power above man's to promise ; but that none hath by more studious ...
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... appear that our language during this period was formed upon no regular or legitimate model . Each author ar- rogated to himself the right of innovation , and their respective works may be considered as ex- periments how far their ...
... appear that our language during this period was formed upon no regular or legitimate model . Each author ar- rogated to himself the right of innovation , and their respective works may be considered as ex- periments how far their ...
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Addison admirable Æneid Anatomy of Melancholy ancient apologues appear Arabian beauty caliphs Canterbury Tales century character charms Chaucer 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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Seite 100 - 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 tombstone, 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 36 - 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 111 - 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 44 - 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 31 - 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 32 - 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 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Seite 18 - 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 - 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...
Seite 76 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Seite 105 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...