Essays, on miscellaneous subjects; with An enquiry into the present state of polite learningSamuel Archer, 1818 - 270 Seiten |
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... piece ; for the talents to be used in writing well , entirely differ from those of speaking well . The qualifications for speaking , as has been already observed , are easily acquired ; they are accomplish- ments which may be taken up ...
... piece ; for the talents to be used in writing well , entirely differ from those of speaking well . The qualifications for speaking , as has been already observed , are easily acquired ; they are accomplish- ments which may be taken up ...
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... piece , had long withstood the tooth of time ; the watchman had gone twelve ; my companions had all stolen off ; and none now remained with me but the landlord . From him I could have wished to know the history of a tavern , that had ...
... piece , had long withstood the tooth of time ; the watchman had gone twelve ; my companions had all stolen off ; and none now remained with me but the landlord . From him I could have wished to know the history of a tavern , that had ...
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... reliques were exposed upon every piece of furniture , and the whole house wash- ed with a deluge of holy water . My habitation was soon converted into a monastery : instead of customers now ap- PREVERIE AT THE BOAR'S HEAD . 41.
... reliques were exposed upon every piece of furniture , and the whole house wash- ed with a deluge of holy water . My habitation was soon converted into a monastery : instead of customers now ap- PREVERIE AT THE BOAR'S HEAD . 41.
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... piece of learning than any lady in the whole country could pretend to . She was always up early , and saw breakfast served in the great hall by six o'clock . At this scene of festivity , she generally improv- ed good humour , by telling ...
... piece of learning than any lady in the whole country could pretend to . She was always up early , and saw breakfast served in the great hall by six o'clock . At this scene of festivity , she generally improv- ed good humour , by telling ...
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... piece of frugality , I returned to receive my money ; and with my knapsack on my back , and a staff in my hand , I bid adieu , with tears in my eyes , to my old benefactor . I had not gone far from the house , when I heard behind me the ...
... piece of frugality , I returned to receive my money ; and with my knapsack on my back , and a staff in my hand , I bid adieu , with tears in my eyes , to my old benefactor . I had not gone far from the house , when I heard behind me the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absurdity acquainted admiration Æneid agreeable amusement ancient appear applause Aristophanes Aristotle Asem beauty blank verse Broom of Cowdenknows called character Cicero comedy contempt coursers critics dactyl David Rizzio endeavour England English ESSAY Europe excellence exhibited expression Falstaff fame folly fond genius gentleman give Handel happiness Homer honour human humour idea Iliad imagination imitation improvement instance Italy kind labours lady language live mankind manner ment merit metaphors mind modern nation nature neral never observed original passion perhaps philosopher piece pleasing poet poetry polite learning present proper propriety quæ Quintilian racter reader resemblance ridicule says scarcely seems sense sentiments simile society song species spirit spondee stage taste tavern Theophrastus Thespis thought tion tragedy truth turn universities verse vice Virgil virtue vulgar whole word write youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 132 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Seite 150 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Seite 150 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Seite 139 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Seite 131 - To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Seite 103 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Seite 173 - Yet, notwithstanding this weight of authority, and the universal practice of former ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults of mankind, make our interest in the piece.
Seite 234 - There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much as possible.
Seite 233 - His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning ; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonize under the slightest disappointment.
Seite 132 - He now drops this idea, and reverts to his reasoning on death, in the course of which he owns himself deterred from suicide by the thoughts of what may follow death: the dread of something after death (That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns.) This might be a good argument in a Heathen or Pagan, and such indeed...