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Much strength and vigour are derived from this adoption ; but perspicuity ,
sweetness , and ease are too generally sacrificed . There is , notwithstanding
these usual features of his composition , an occa . sional simplicity in his pages ,
both of ...
Much strength and vigour are derived from this adoption ; but perspicuity ,
sweetness , and ease are too generally sacrificed . There is , notwithstanding
these usual features of his composition , an occa . sional simplicity in his pages ,
both of ...
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follies of my life , building and planting have not been the least , and have cost
me more than I have the confidence to own ; yet they have been fully
recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat , where , since my
resolution ...
follies of my life , building and planting have not been the least , and have cost
me more than I have the confidence to own ; yet they have been fully
recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat , where , since my
resolution ...
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It is metaphorical and rich , without losing any portion of its sweetness and
simplicity ; it is clear , graceful , and pure , and charms the more durably as it is
free from antithesis , point , and forced construction . Innumerable are the
passages ...
It is metaphorical and rich , without losing any portion of its sweetness and
simplicity ; it is clear , graceful , and pure , and charms the more durably as it is
free from antithesis , point , and forced construction . Innumerable are the
passages ...
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model ; some of the papers in the Mirror , likewise , are composed in a vein of
great sweetness and delicacy , with regard both to selection and arrangement of
language ; and the moral and critical writings of Dr . Aikin display a style which ...
model ; some of the papers in the Mirror , likewise , are composed in a vein of
great sweetness and delicacy , with regard both to selection and arrangement of
language ; and the moral and critical writings of Dr . Aikin display a style which ...
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romantic incidents are delivered in bombastic and highly inflated language ; the
purer ages of Arabian literature were remarkable for sweetness and simplicity of
style ; and the diction ascribed as a general defect of eastern composition ...
romantic incidents are delivered in bombastic and highly inflated language ; the
purer ages of Arabian literature were remarkable for sweetness and simplicity of
style ; and the diction ascribed as a general defect of eastern composition ...
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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...
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| Titel | Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Band 3 Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Charles Whittingham |
| Autor/in | Nathan Drake |
| Mitwirkende | Charles Whittingham, John Sharpe |
| Verlag | C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 2. Aug. 2007 |
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