An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, L.L.D...Isaac Riley, 1806 - 559 من الصفحات |
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... mind : and that he evinced his love of virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical taste , no less in his private and unreserved communications with his friends , ( some of them of high rank in life , as well as in the ...
... mind : and that he evinced his love of virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical taste , no less in his private and unreserved communications with his friends , ( some of them of high rank in life , as well as in the ...
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... mind , in those meditations which he loved to indulge , amidst the beautiful and sublime scenery of that neigh- bourhood , which furnished him with endless amusement . At a small distance from the place of his residence , a deep and ...
... mind , in those meditations which he loved to indulge , amidst the beautiful and sublime scenery of that neigh- bourhood , which furnished him with endless amusement . At a small distance from the place of his residence , a deep and ...
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... mind . * It is pleasing , I think , to contemplate these his early habits , so congenial to the feelings of a poetical and warm imagination ; and , therefore , I trust I shall be forgiven for having dwelt on them so long.t From this ...
... mind . * It is pleasing , I think , to contemplate these his early habits , so congenial to the feelings of a poetical and warm imagination ; and , therefore , I trust I shall be forgiven for having dwelt on them so long.t From this ...
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... mind a little from the rack of unsatisfied impatience ; yet I doubt not , if I were now to read " Clarissa " a second time , I should find these tedious parts not the least useful . Whoever rails at Mr Richard- son's tediousness should ...
... mind a little from the rack of unsatisfied impatience ; yet I doubt not , if I were now to read " Clarissa " a second time , I should find these tedious parts not the least useful . Whoever rails at Mr Richard- son's tediousness should ...
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... mind of Cato arrayed in a full - bottomed periwig . " The following letter contains some strictures on Rousseau's " Eloise , " of which he afterwards gave a short character in his " Dissertation on Fable and Romance , ” p . 570 . LETTER ...
... mind of Cato arrayed in a full - bottomed periwig . " The following letter contains some strictures on Rousseau's " Eloise , " of which he afterwards gave a short character in his " Dissertation on Fable and Romance , ” p . 570 . LETTER ...
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الصفحة 306 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
الصفحة 498 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find.
الصفحة 306 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
الصفحة 543 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
الصفحة 14 - Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine, Thy charms my only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence! the scared owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs, And down the lone vale sails away To more profound repose.
الصفحة 191 - Reynolds,, who was the intimate and beloved friend of that great man ; the friend whom he declared to be " the most invulnerable man he knew ; whom, if he should quarrel with him, he should find the most difficulty how to abuse.
الصفحة 351 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
الصفحة 340 - I know not who will go to heaven if Langton does not. Sir, I could almost say, Sit anima mea cum Langtono.
الصفحة 520 - gainst Passion's threatful blast Let steady Reason urge the struggling oar ; Shot through the dreary gloom, the morn at last Gives to thy longing eye the blissful shore. Forget my frailties, thou art also frail ; Forgive my lapses, for thyself may'st fall ; Nor read, unmoved, my artless tender tale, — I was a friend, O man, to thee, to all.
الصفحة 79 - See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.