Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, المجلد 21812 |
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... object be found , so proper to kindle those affections , as the Father of the universe , and the Author of all felicity ! Unmoved by veneration , can you con- template that grandeur and majesty which his works every where display ...
... object be found , so proper to kindle those affections , as the Father of the universe , and the Author of all felicity ! Unmoved by veneration , can you con- template that grandeur and majesty which his works every where display ...
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... object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures ; while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse , for old age . ' As for me , I am the friend of gods ...
... object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures ; while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse , for old age . ' As for me , I am the friend of gods ...
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... objects , which have none inherent in them ; just as the sun - beams may paint a cloud , and diversify it with beautiful ... object of a solid and lasting esteem . Seed . INDUSTRY A DUTY OF THE YOUNG . DILIGENCE , industry 14 BOOK III ...
... objects , which have none inherent in them ; just as the sun - beams may paint a cloud , and diversify it with beautiful ... object of a solid and lasting esteem . Seed . INDUSTRY A DUTY OF THE YOUNG . DILIGENCE , industry 14 BOOK III ...
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... objects . If the wheel of life , which rolls thus silently along , passed on through undistinguishable unifor- mity , we should never mark its approaches to the end of the course . If one hour were like another ; if the passage of the ...
... objects . If the wheel of life , which rolls thus silently along , passed on through undistinguishable unifor- mity , we should never mark its approaches to the end of the course . If one hour were like another ; if the passage of the ...
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... object to another . The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure , and a state of settled unifor- mity , proceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers . If we except those gigantic and stupendous ...
... object to another . The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure , and a state of settled unifor- mity , proceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers . If we except those gigantic and stupendous ...
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الصفحة 112 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
الصفحة 245 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
الصفحة 245 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
الصفحة 243 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
الصفحة 112 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
الصفحة 112 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
الصفحة 112 - Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one, must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men,...
الصفحة 111 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
الصفحة 252 - You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
الصفحة 111 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.