Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of LiteratureJ. Raw, 1810 - 241 من الصفحات |
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... exhibit- ing the impressions of the moment in the language which the moment prompted , and which must derive any interest it may possess from the ease and freedom with which these impressions are communicated , it would be fruitless and ...
... exhibit- ing the impressions of the moment in the language which the moment prompted , and which must derive any interest it may possess from the ease and freedom with which these impressions are communicated , it would be fruitless and ...
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... exhibits that people , of whom we have known little but through defamatory channels , as considerably more advan- ced in all the refinements of civilization , than we had hitherto supposed . But has not the passion for the marvellous ...
... exhibits that people , of whom we have known little but through defamatory channels , as considerably more advan- ced in all the refinements of civilization , than we had hitherto supposed . But has not the passion for the marvellous ...
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Thomas Green. [ 1796. ] sical composition , that the author cannot exhibit his conceptions directly to the Public ; but must trust , for this purpose , to the agency of others . The Painter , the Architect , the Poet , address themselves ...
Thomas Green. [ 1796. ] sical composition , that the author cannot exhibit his conceptions directly to the Public ; but must trust , for this purpose , to the agency of others . The Painter , the Architect , the Poet , address themselves ...
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... exhibits a wonderful convergescence of moral probabilities on - a natural son of Anne of Austria , widow of Louis ... exhibit- ing a brief but masterly abstract of Scotch affairs till the period of Mary Queen of Scots . - The History ...
... exhibits a wonderful convergescence of moral probabilities on - a natural son of Anne of Austria , widow of Louis ... exhibit- ing a brief but masterly abstract of Scotch affairs till the period of Mary Queen of Scots . - The History ...
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... exhibits such vast dimen- sions and surpassing splendour within , that St. Paul's , on a review , appeared like the inside of a deserted tap - room . MARCH the 14th . Read Freret's Essay on the Evidence of Antient History , Tom 8me ...
... exhibits such vast dimen- sions and surpassing splendour within , that St. Paul's , on a review , appeared like the inside of a deserted tap - room . MARCH the 14th . Read Freret's Essay on the Evidence of Antient History , Tom 8me ...
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2dly Aberystwith admiration Æneid afterwards antient appears ascribes beauty Beeston Castle Book Bristol Channel Burke Cader Idris Cardigan Bay chapter character Cicero composition confess criticism delight derived distinction doctrine Dunciad effect eloquence emotions endeavours Epicureans Essay evil evinces excellence excite exhibit expression exquisite fancy feelings Finished Flat Holmes force former genius happy heights History honestum Horace human Hurd's idea images imagination imitation impressions interest Johnson judgment labours Letter Livy Llanidloes Looked Lord Lorenzo de Medici maintains manner masterly Memoirs Merionethshire miles mind moral narrative nature nihil objects observes occasion original pain passage passions perusal philosophy picturesque pleasing pleasure Plinlimmon Poem poetry political Pope's principles Pursued qualities Quinctilian's racter reason regarded Regicide remarks respect scene sect seems sense sensibility sentiments shew Soame Jenyns spirit sublime suppose surely taste thing tion truth vale of Clwyd virtue Warton's whole
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الصفحة 236 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
الصفحة 229 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
الصفحة 114 - ... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter?
الصفحة 103 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
الصفحة 68 - Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed.
الصفحة 237 - With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
الصفحة 9 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
الصفحة 123 - Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left.
الصفحة 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.