Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Band 2J. Sharpe, 1805 - 472 Seiten |
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... exquisite sentiment which terminates it , cannot be sufficiently admired . Soliciting the archbishop for retirement from the temple for the purpose of study , he observes , " I have searched many books , and spent many thoughtful hours ...
... exquisite sentiment which terminates it , cannot be sufficiently admired . Soliciting the archbishop for retirement from the temple for the purpose of study , he observes , " I have searched many books , and spent many thoughtful hours ...
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... exquisite grace and unaffected elegance as , notwithstanding the greater accuracy with which the language is now written , still renders his style the admiration and delight of every judi- cious cultivator of English philology . It will ...
... exquisite grace and unaffected elegance as , notwithstanding the greater accuracy with which the language is now written , still renders his style the admiration and delight of every judi- cious cultivator of English philology . It will ...
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... exquisite propriety and beauty our author could adapt his diction to his subject , the following extracts , taken from his Essay on Westminster Abbey , will abun- dantly prove . The theme is of the highest im- 100 ON THE PROGRESS AND ...
... exquisite propriety and beauty our author could adapt his diction to his subject , the following extracts , taken from his Essay on Westminster Abbey , will abun- dantly prove . The theme is of the highest im- 100 ON THE PROGRESS AND ...
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... exquisite propriety by far the greater part of moral and literary topics , has been seldom adopted even in the very depart- ments where it ought more especially to have been employed . Of those who have cultivated a diction emulating ...
... exquisite propriety by far the greater part of moral and literary topics , has been seldom adopted even in the very depart- ments where it ought more especially to have been employed . Of those who have cultivated a diction emulating ...
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... exquisite vein of ridicule , which distinguishes so remark- ably the productions of Addison , which unveiled the follies and ignorance without hurting the feelings of mankind , speedily opened the eyes of every rank , and rendered them ...
... exquisite vein of ridicule , which distinguishes so remark- ably the productions of Addison , which unveiled the follies and ignorance without hurting the feelings of mankind , speedily opened the eyes of every rank , and rendered them ...
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Addison admirable Anatomy of Melancholy ancient apologues appear Arabian beauty caliphs Canterbury Tales century character charms Chaucer Chimæra colours composition consider criticism crusade delight diction Ditto Dryden East edition effect elegant endeavours English English Poetry Essays excellent exhibited exquisite fable fairy fancy genius Geoffery grace guage hath heaven humour imagery imagination justly king language learned literary literature Lord manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never night observes opinion oriental passage period Persian perspicuity philosophy Pilpay pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry present productions prose racter reader remarks rich Roger de Coverley romance says second Crusade sense Shakspeare shew Simeon Seth simplicity Sir Roger species specimen Spectator spirit stars story style sublime supposed sweetness taste Tatler things third crusade thou tion verse whilst William of Malmesbury wonderful words writers written
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Seite 34 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Seite 113 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Seite 13 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 46 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Seite 20 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Seite 101 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Seite 37 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Seite 36 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave ; whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to point out and describe.
Seite 37 - ... reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as ' are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.
Seite 2 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...