A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various AuthorsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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... happy method was established , the har- vest of wit has been more plentiful , and the labour- ers more in number than heretofore . It is well known to the able practitioners in the writing art , " That as easy as it is to conceive wit ...
... happy method was established , the har- vest of wit has been more plentiful , and the labour- ers more in number than heretofore . It is well known to the able practitioners in the writing art , " That as easy as it is to conceive wit ...
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... happy ; if it could gain but that point , it would obtain all its desires ; but yet at last , when it reaches the very top of the pic of Teneriff , it is in very great danger of breaking its neck downwards , but in no possibility of ...
... happy ; if it could gain but that point , it would obtain all its desires ; but yet at last , when it reaches the very top of the pic of Teneriff , it is in very great danger of breaking its neck downwards , but in no possibility of ...
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... happy man will never fear The evil aspects of the year ; Nor tremble , though two comets should appear . He does not look in almanacks to see , Whether he fortunate shall be . Let Mars and Saturn in the heavens conjoin And what they ...
... happy man will never fear The evil aspects of the year ; Nor tremble , though two comets should appear . He does not look in almanacks to see , Whether he fortunate shall be . Let Mars and Saturn in the heavens conjoin And what they ...
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... happy state , I would not fear , nor wish , my fate ; But boldly say each night , To - morrow let my sun his beams display , Or in clouds hide them , I have liv'd to - day . You may see by it , I was even then acquainted with the poets ...
... happy state , I would not fear , nor wish , my fate ; But boldly say each night , To - morrow let my sun his beams display , Or in clouds hide them , I have liv'd to - day . You may see by it , I was even then acquainted with the poets ...
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... happy resto- ration , but the getting into some moderately con- venient retreat in the country , which I thought in that case I might easily have compassed , as well as some others , who with no greater proba- bilities or pretences ...
... happy resto- ration , but the getting into some moderately con- venient retreat in the country , which I thought in that case I might easily have compassed , as well as some others , who with no greater proba- bilities or pretences ...
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à corps perdu actions admirable advantage affections agreeable antient beauty Beelzebub Ben Jonson better body born for love Cæsar called cern chuse common compass courage Cowley danger death deceive defects delight disposition divine Domitian envy Epicurus ESSAY esteem evil excellent fancy fear force fortune friends genius happy honour Horace human humour imagination industry judgment Julius Cæsar kind laws less liberty live look Lord Bacon Lord Clarendon Lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind mean ment mind miscellany mour nation nature ness never object observed occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons philosophers pleasure poetry poets praise princes reason rience Seneca the elder Septimus Severus shew Sir William Temple sort spirit suspicions taste temper thing thought tion true truth turn vanity verses Virgil virtue wisdom wise wonder writing youth
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Seite 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Seite 118 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 18 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Seite 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Seite 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Seite 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Seite 16 - 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 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Seite 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Seite 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.