Elements of Criticism, Volum 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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Pàgina 6
... those who affect to distinguish themselves by a certain delicacy of taste and behaviour . The fulfome panegyrics be- ftowed upon the great and opulent , in epiftles dedicatory and other fuch compofitions , lead naturally to that thought ...
... those who affect to distinguish themselves by a certain delicacy of taste and behaviour . The fulfome panegyrics be- ftowed upon the great and opulent , in epiftles dedicatory and other fuch compofitions , lead naturally to that thought ...
Pàgina 9
... look not for any thing natural in those which are acceffory . On the other hand , a serious and important subject , admits not much or- VOL . II . B nament • nament * : nor a subject that of itself Ch . X. 9 AND PROPRIETY .
... look not for any thing natural in those which are acceffory . On the other hand , a serious and important subject , admits not much or- VOL . II . B nament • nament * : nor a subject that of itself Ch . X. 9 AND PROPRIETY .
Pàgina 20
... those that respect others , and those that re- fpect ourselves . Fidelity , gratitude , and the forbearing injury , are examples of the first fort ; temperance , modefty , firmness of mind , are examples of the other . The for- mer are ...
... those that respect others , and those that re- fpect ourselves . Fidelity , gratitude , and the forbearing injury , are examples of the first fort ; temperance , modefty , firmness of mind , are examples of the other . The for- mer are ...
Pàgina 23
... those annexed to the sense of justice . And that this is wifely ordered , will appear from confidering , that to the well - being of fociety , duty to others is ftill more effential than duty to ourselves ; for fociety could not subfift ...
... those annexed to the sense of justice . And that this is wifely ordered , will appear from confidering , that to the well - being of fociety , duty to others is ftill more effential than duty to ourselves ; for fociety could not subfift ...
Pàgina 30
... his nature , obtains the epithet of childish . To those who study human nature , there is a point which has always appeared intri- cate . is 30 DIGNITY AND MEANNESS . Ch . XI . According to the description here given ...
... his nature , obtains the epithet of childish . To those who study human nature , there is a point which has always appeared intri- cate . is 30 DIGNITY AND MEANNESS . Ch . XI . According to the description here given ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 99 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Pàgina 216 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Pàgina 224 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Pàgina 219 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 403 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Pàgina 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Pàgina 207 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Pàgina 209 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Pàgina 219 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Pàgina 405 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...