Literary Amusements: In Verse and ProseJ. Dodsley, 1787 - 76 Seiten |
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... answer , yet cannot be true ; Denies Matter can act upon Spirit , and hence Proves Existence a manifeft fraud on the fense ; Holds that nothing is real that's under the Sun , And afferts a first cause , although nothing be done ? Wit ...
... answer , yet cannot be true ; Denies Matter can act upon Spirit , and hence Proves Existence a manifeft fraud on the fense ; Holds that nothing is real that's under the Sun , And afferts a first cause , although nothing be done ? Wit ...
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... answer to mine , Our heroic , of fyllables ten to a line . For the French , as you know , employ twelve- Do but try , And you'll find that you'll write them as freely as I. What will please you , this Verfe comes as easy as profe , And ...
... answer to mine , Our heroic , of fyllables ten to a line . For the French , as you know , employ twelve- Do but try , And you'll find that you'll write them as freely as I. What will please you , this Verfe comes as easy as profe , And ...
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... answers were always short , and full of fenfe . To this day , a concife ftyle , replete with meaning , is called a laconic style , from Laconia , by which name Lacedemonia was called . Lycurgus was their first legislator , which means ...
... answers were always short , and full of fenfe . To this day , a concife ftyle , replete with meaning , is called a laconic style , from Laconia , by which name Lacedemonia was called . Lycurgus was their first legislator , which means ...
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... ( answered " Ariftippus ) he will certainly have that of fitting in " the theatre not as a ftone upon a stone . At that " time the feats in the theatre were of marble . By " this answer that judicious man hinted , that perfons " whose ...
... ( answered " Ariftippus ) he will certainly have that of fitting in " the theatre not as a ftone upon a stone . At that " time the feats in the theatre were of marble . By " this answer that judicious man hinted , that perfons " whose ...
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... answered for you , that this would not happen to you , for that you was tho- roughly fenfible of the usefulness and neceffity of knowledge ; that you knew it could not be acquired without pains and attention ; and that you knew too ...
... answered for you , that this would not happen to you , for that you was tho- roughly fenfible of the usefulness and neceffity of knowledge ; that you knew it could not be acquired without pains and attention ; and that you knew too ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 16 - 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 53 - RYNO The wind and the rain are past: calm is the noon of day. The clouds are divided in heaven. Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead!
Seite 51 - ALONE, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.
Seite v - Epifodes of a greater Work which related to the Wars of Fingal, Concerning this Hero innumerable Traditions remain, to this Day, in the Highlands of Scotland. The...
Seite 55 - A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's eye the grave of the mighty Morar.
Seite 21 - Connal ? and who recount thy fathers ? Thy family grew like an oak on the mountain, which meeteth the wind with its lofty head. But now it is torn from the earth.
Seite 8 - This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...
Seite vii - It is believed, that, by a careful inquiry, many more remains of ancient genius, no lefs valuable than thofe now given to the world, might .be found in the fame country where thefe have been collected.
Seite 47 - Close it not till Colma come. My life flies away like a dream! why should I stay behind?
Seite 24 - Oscian, prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades thy mighty soul? Memory, son of Alpin, memory wounds the aged. Of former times are my thoughts; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal.