Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... less real use to you than he who can retrench one , shewing it to be really superfluous . After having shewn how much , or how little , rules can do for your assistance , I will add a few general precepts and hints which may be of use ...
... less real use to you than he who can retrench one , shewing it to be really superfluous . After having shewn how much , or how little , rules can do for your assistance , I will add a few general precepts and hints which may be of use ...
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... less discouraging , remains behind . That is how to say it in a few words . To remove this , I recommend that you make one subject the theme of several exercises , which may be shewn separately for correction ; as it does not signify ...
... less discouraging , remains behind . That is how to say it in a few words . To remove this , I recommend that you make one subject the theme of several exercises , which may be shewn separately for correction ; as it does not signify ...
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... less distaste on that account ; and , I believe , it will generally be admitted , that whatever tends to render the argument more impressive , and the composition more lively , provided it be closely applicable to the subject , may ...
... less distaste on that account ; and , I believe , it will generally be admitted , that whatever tends to render the argument more impressive , and the composition more lively , provided it be closely applicable to the subject , may ...
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... less applicable to you than to many of your contemporaries . You have had opportunities , both of reading and of hearing , more than is usual at your age ; and , not having begun very early to make themes , have , in my opinion , the ...
... less applicable to you than to many of your contemporaries . You have had opportunities , both of reading and of hearing , more than is usual at your age ; and , not having begun very early to make themes , have , in my opinion , the ...
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... less tremblingly alive to the magic of sweet sounds , will confess that nothing is more exhilarating than sprightly music ; nothing more soothing than tender music ; nothing so adapted to fill the soul with ardent and deep devotion as ...
... less tremblingly alive to the magic of sweet sounds , will confess that nothing is more exhilarating than sprightly music ; nothing more soothing than tender music ; nothing so adapted to fill the soul with ardent and deep devotion as ...
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Page 13 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 26 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 201 - God, in the nature of each being, founds Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds: But as he framed a whole, the whole to bless, On mutual wants built mutual happiness: So from the first eternal Order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
Page 167 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 127 - Open, ye everlasting gates !' they sung; ' Open, ye Heavens, your living doors ; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days...
Page 170 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 88 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Page 147 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 218 - ... and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 20 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.