Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyRaymond Macdonald Alden Houghton Mifflin, 1911 - 724 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... least one reader , his respect for the person and works of Samuel Johnson . The space here accorded him is by no means due to mere tradition or literary orthodoxy , but to a genuine belief in the lasting worth of what he had to say ...
... least one reader , his respect for the person and works of Samuel Johnson . The space here accorded him is by no means due to mere tradition or literary orthodoxy , but to a genuine belief in the lasting worth of what he had to say ...
Pàgina 1
... least where learning is in so much esteem . But to make amends , the two great seminaries we have are , without comparison , the greatest - I won't say the best in the world ; and though much might be said here concerning univer- sities ...
... least where learning is in so much esteem . But to make amends , the two great seminaries we have are , without comparison , the greatest - I won't say the best in the world ; and though much might be said here concerning univer- sities ...
Pàgina 6
... least a needful opportunity of education in all sorts of useful learning , I propose the draught of an Academy for that pur- pose . I know ' tis dangerous to make public appearances of the sex . They are not either to be confined or ...
... least a needful opportunity of education in all sorts of useful learning , I propose the draught of an Academy for that pur- pose . I know ' tis dangerous to make public appearances of the sex . They are not either to be confined or ...
Pàgina 24
... least sign of dejection in her face ; nor did I ever hear her let fall a desponding or murmuring expression ; nay , not when actually under her husband's barbarity , which I have been witness to , and several other persons of undoubted ...
... least sign of dejection in her face ; nor did I ever hear her let fall a desponding or murmuring expression ; nay , not when actually under her husband's barbarity , which I have been witness to , and several other persons of undoubted ...
Pàgina 38
... least advantages which we shall gain by the coming of the Pre- tender . • There seems to be but one thing more which those people who make such a clamor at the fears of the Pretender , take hold of , and this is religion ; and they tell ...
... least advantages which we shall gain by the coming of the Pre- tender . • There seems to be but one thing more which those people who make such a clamor at the fears of the Pretender , take hold of , and this is religion ; and they tell ...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century Raymond Macdonald Alden Visualització completa - 1911 |
Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century Raymond Macdonald Alden Visualització completa - 1911 |
Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century Raymond Macdonald Alden Visualització completa - 1911 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 636 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pàgina 545 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Pàgina 546 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Pàgina 46 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Pàgina 362 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Pàgina 370 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...
Pàgina 193 - As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from any thing I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of their last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Pàgina 406 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Pàgina 195 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Pàgina 635 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...