The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, المجلد 21R. Griffiths, 1759 |
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... first or principal fource of our approbation and difapprobation . These fentiments are no doubt enhanced and enlivened by the perception of the beauty or deformity which refults from this utility or hurtfulness ; but ftill , he fays ...
... first or principal fource of our approbation and difapprobation . These fentiments are no doubt enhanced and enlivened by the perception of the beauty or deformity which refults from this utility or hurtfulness ; but ftill , he fays ...
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... First , wherein does virtue confift ? or what is the tone of temper , and tenor of conduct , which conftitutes the excellent and praife - worthy character , -the character which is the natural object of efteem , honour , and approbation ...
... First , wherein does virtue confift ? or what is the tone of temper , and tenor of conduct , which conftitutes the excellent and praife - worthy character , -the character which is the natural object of efteem , honour , and approbation ...
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mention the titles of the feveral pieces contained in this volume . The first is Mr. D'Alembert's eulogium on this celebrated writer ; including , after the manner of the foreign academi- cians , the history of his life and writings ...
mention the titles of the feveral pieces contained in this volume . The first is Mr. D'Alembert's eulogium on this celebrated writer ; including , after the manner of the foreign academi- cians , the history of his life and writings ...
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... first clafs of the writers of thofe days . His fentiments , though sometimes narrow , are often noble , and generally juft . His diction is " LIFE FROM 1660 TO 1667 INCLUSIVE is very incorrect , many " words being omitted , that must ...
... first clafs of the writers of thofe days . His fentiments , though sometimes narrow , are often noble , and generally juft . His diction is " LIFE FROM 1660 TO 1667 INCLUSIVE is very incorrect , many " words being omitted , that must ...
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... first dialogue is between Dr. Henry More , and Ed- mund Waller , Efq ; on fincerity in the commerce of the world . The Writer very judiciously makes Mr. Waller per- fonate the character of a pliant Ariftippus . If his cotempo- raries ...
... first dialogue is between Dr. Henry More , and Ed- mund Waller , Efq ; on fincerity in the commerce of the world . The Writer very judiciously makes Mr. Waller per- fonate the character of a pliant Ariftippus . If his cotempo- raries ...
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الصفحة 205 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
الصفحة 25 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
الصفحة 301 - From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
الصفحة 205 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
الصفحة 541 - All the dexterity is in the good cookery and management of them...
الصفحة 25 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
الصفحة 203 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
الصفحة 547 - IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant in the horse-guards.
الصفحة 112 - ... double of that by the water ; for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through n glafs wedge only, whofe refracting angle was near thirty degrees.
الصفحة 188 - Twas from the bottle King deriv'd his wit, Drank till he could not talk, and then he writ. Let no coiPd ferjeant touch the facred juice, But leave it to the bards for better ufe : Let the grave judges too the glafs forbear, Who never fing and dance but once a year. This truth once known, our poets take the hint...