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... writer , with- out indulging any unwarranted licences , has a language which he derives from him- felf , and which is peculiarly and literally his own . I WOULD recommend therefore to these empty echoes of the antients , which owe their ...
... writer , with- out indulging any unwarranted licences , has a language which he derives from him- felf , and which is peculiarly and literally his own . I WOULD recommend therefore to these empty echoes of the antients , which owe their ...
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... writer ) the man is not known ever < c ( c the more to pofterity , because his name " is tranfmitted to them : He doth not live becaufe his name does . When it " is faid , Julius Cæfar fubdued Gaul , con- quered Pompey , & c . it is the ...
... writer ) the man is not known ever < c ( c the more to pofterity , because his name " is tranfmitted to them : He doth not live becaufe his name does . When it " is faid , Julius Cæfar fubdued Gaul , con- quered Pompey , & c . it is the ...
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... of poets and philofophers , and which kings and heroes have profeffed to afpire after , Cleora actually enjoys the 3 lives her own , free from the follies and im- lives 80 XIX . LETTER Rallying her tafte for mystical and romance writers,
... of poets and philofophers , and which kings and heroes have profeffed to afpire after , Cleora actually enjoys the 3 lives her own , free from the follies and im- lives 80 XIX . LETTER Rallying her tafte for mystical and romance writers,
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... writers , perhaps I am not quite incapable of acquiring one ; and as I have every thing of the hermit in my compofition except the enthusiasm , it is not impoffible but I may catch that also , by the affistance of you and **** . I de ...
... writers , perhaps I am not quite incapable of acquiring one ; and as I have every thing of the hermit in my compofition except the enthusiasm , it is not impoffible but I may catch that also , by the affistance of you and **** . I de ...
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... writer's genius is chiefly displayed . A vi- gorous and lively fancy does not tamely con- fine itself to the idea which lies before it , but looks beyond the immediate object of its con- templation , and obferves how it ftands in con ...
... writer's genius is chiefly displayed . A vi- gorous and lively fancy does not tamely con- fine itself to the idea which lies before it , but looks beyond the immediate object of its con- templation , and obferves how it ftands in con ...
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Page 66 - It muft be acknowledged, indeed, that in the times which fucceeded the diflblution of the Roman republic, this art was fo perverted from its true end as to become the fingle ftudy of their enervated orators.
Page 345 - I dare speak confidently and positively of very few things, except matter of fact. And when I venture to deliver any thing by way of opinion, I should, if it were not for mere shame, speak yet more diffidently than I have been wont to do.
Page 309 - There must be a great agitation of mind to invent, a great calm to judge and correct ; there must be upon the same tree, and at the same time, both flower and fruit.
Page 363 - ... of its opinions, with greater force of conviction than any other method we can employ. That ' it is not good for man to be alone...
Page 358 - But even if we look up to those who move in much superior orbits, and who have opportunities to improve, as well as leisure to exercise their understandings, we shall find that thinking is one of the...
Page 4 - If we see right, we see our woes: Then what avails it to have eyes? From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise. We wearied should lie down in death: This cheat of life would take no more; If you thought fame but empty breath; I, Phillis, but a perjur'd whore.
Page 115 - ... of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, who wrote an account to his owners of an engagement, " in which he had the good fortune, " he told them, of having only one of his
Page 272 - For him through hostile camps I bent my way, For him thus prostrate at thy feet I lay; Large gifts proportion'd to thy wrath I bear; O hear the wretched, and the gods revere!
Page 219 - But in fome places he feems not to have touched it with that delicacy of pencil, which graces the original ; as he has entirely loft the beauty of one of the figures. Hector is...
Page 186 - Horace have given us the rules of criticism, that we submit to their authority ; it is because those rules are derived from works which have been distinguished by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved part of mankind, from their earliest appearance down to this present hour. For whatever, through a long series of ages, has been universally esteemed as beautiful, cannot but be conformable to our just and natural ideas of beauty.