Literary Amusements: In Verse and ProseJ. Dodsley, 1787 - 76 Seiten |
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... these conceits to their infignificant origin . Simplicity is fo effential to Humour , that it forms the principal distinction between Humour and Wit : thus , if the pleasantry fhould fpring from a furprise , or happiness in the turn of ...
... these conceits to their infignificant origin . Simplicity is fo effential to Humour , that it forms the principal distinction between Humour and Wit : thus , if the pleasantry fhould fpring from a furprise , or happiness in the turn of ...
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... these methods , convinces me , that the fimpleft way , and the eafieft , is , at the fame time , the best . Let us look only to that which prefides in the nature of the thing before us : in matters of taste , the effentials of the ...
... these methods , convinces me , that the fimpleft way , and the eafieft , is , at the fame time , the best . Let us look only to that which prefides in the nature of the thing before us : in matters of taste , the effentials of the ...
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... these , to be most awake , when their Original nods . The modernizers of our early Poets have not much to boast of . Improvements on the Childhood of language are the triumphs of Time ; the advantage is in the medium , not in the ...
... these , to be most awake , when their Original nods . The modernizers of our early Poets have not much to boast of . Improvements on the Childhood of language are the triumphs of Time ; the advantage is in the medium , not in the ...
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... these two principles refults a third - That the found fhall be in a just proportion to the sense . Though this Principle is feldom noticed , except in the grofs abuse of it , it is yet per- petually operative ; takes place more or less ...
... these two principles refults a third - That the found fhall be in a just proportion to the sense . Though this Principle is feldom noticed , except in the grofs abuse of it , it is yet per- petually operative ; takes place more or less ...
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... these are the lead- ing notes in our musical periods- " Every man , that has undertaken to instruct " others , can tell what flow advances he has " been able to make , and how much pa- " tience it requires to recall vagrant inat ...
... these are the lead- ing notes in our musical periods- " Every man , that has undertaken to instruct " others , can tell what flow advances he has " been able to make , and how much pa- " tience it requires to recall vagrant inat ...
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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.