Harrison's British Classicks, المجلد 1Harrison and Company, 1785 |
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الصفحة 4
... beauty of my works , to be at leaft pardoned for their brevity . But whether my expectations are moft fixed on pardon or praife , I think it not neceffary to difcover ; for having accu- rately weighed the reafons fer arrogance and ...
... beauty of my works , to be at leaft pardoned for their brevity . But whether my expectations are moft fixed on pardon or praife , I think it not neceffary to difcover ; for having accu- rately weighed the reafons fer arrogance and ...
الصفحة 6
... beauty to the vegetable world . Perhaps no clafs of the human species requires more to be cautioned against this anticipation of happinefs , than those that afpire to the name of authors . A man of lively fancy no fooner finds a hint ...
... beauty to the vegetable world . Perhaps no clafs of the human species requires more to be cautioned against this anticipation of happinefs , than those that afpire to the name of authors . A man of lively fancy no fooner finds a hint ...
الصفحة 9
... beauty , folidity , or usefulness . Wherever fuch difcoveries were made , and they were made whenever thefe faults were committed , Criticism refused the touch which conferred the fanction of immortality ; and , when the errors were ...
... beauty , folidity , or usefulness . Wherever fuch difcoveries were made , and they were made whenever thefe faults were committed , Criticism refused the touch which conferred the fanction of immortality ; and , when the errors were ...
الصفحة 13
... beauty , to lose their hours and di- vert their thoughts by cards or allem- blies , a tavern dinner , or the prattle of the day . It may be laid down as a position which will feldom deceive , that when a man cannot bear his own company ...
... beauty , to lose their hours and di- vert their thoughts by cards or allem- blies , a tavern dinner , or the prattle of the day . It may be laid down as a position which will feldom deceive , that when a man cannot bear his own company ...
الصفحة 17
... beauty of rectitude . To this power , thus early established , and inceffantly increafing , it must be remembered , that almost every man has , in fome part of his life , added new ftrength by a voluntary or negligent fubjection of ...
... beauty of rectitude . To this power , thus early established , and inceffantly increafing , it must be remembered , that almost every man has , in fome part of his life , added new ftrength by a voluntary or negligent fubjection of ...
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الصفحة 317 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
الصفحة 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
الصفحة 415 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
الصفحة 450 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
الصفحة 159 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
الصفحة 20 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
الصفحة 318 - I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable!
الصفحة 355 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
الصفحة 463 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
الصفحة 233 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.