Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... ment that you have no further occasion for them ; for , when they cease to be an assistance , they become a restraint ; and by checking the easy flow . of language , and breaking the chain of mutual relation and dependance , in which ...
... ment that you have no further occasion for them ; for , when they cease to be an assistance , they become a restraint ; and by checking the easy flow . of language , and breaking the chain of mutual relation and dependance , in which ...
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... ment of words : with regard to these , the ear and the understanding must be depended on ; for one might as well endeavour to make the effect of music intelligible by rules to one who was com- pletely deaf , as point out awkward ...
... ment of words : with regard to these , the ear and the understanding must be depended on ; for one might as well endeavour to make the effect of music intelligible by rules to one who was com- pletely deaf , as point out awkward ...
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... ment . Remember , that " ten censure wrong , for one who writes amiss ; " bring your own composi- tion , as closely as you can , to the test of rules : but in judging that of others , examine carefully , whe- ther there be any ...
... ment . Remember , that " ten censure wrong , for one who writes amiss ; " bring your own composi- tion , as closely as you can , to the test of rules : but in judging that of others , examine carefully , whe- ther there be any ...
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... ment and amplification , than as being essential parts of an Essay . When you revise these , take notice whether you have offended against any of the precepts I have given you in the second Letter ; and if so , correct the fault as well ...
... ment and amplification , than as being essential parts of an Essay . When you revise these , take notice whether you have offended against any of the precepts I have given you in the second Letter ; and if so , correct the fault as well ...
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... supernumerary sense , the result of a very delicate and susceptible organization , which those who do not possess it can scarcely comprehend , but from which the few who are endowed with it derive the finest enjoy- ment ESSAY IV On Music.
... supernumerary sense , the result of a very delicate and susceptible organization , which those who do not possess it can scarcely comprehend , but from which the few who are endowed with it derive the finest enjoy- ment ESSAY IV On Music.
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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.