The British Prose Writers...: Goldsmith's essays, and BeeJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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Pàgina 38
... endeavour to forget age and wisdom , and as far as innocence goes , be as much a boy as the best of them . Let idle declaimers mourn over the degeneracy of the age ; but in my opinion every age is the same . This I am sure of , that man ...
... endeavour to forget age and wisdom , and as far as innocence goes , be as much a boy as the best of them . Let idle declaimers mourn over the degeneracy of the age ; but in my opinion every age is the same . This I am sure of , that man ...
Pàgina 85
... endeavour at the refor- mation of innocent folly , productive of no evil to the commonwealth . But in reality this folly is pro- ductive of manifold evils to the community . If the reputation of taste can be acquired , without the least ...
... endeavour at the refor- mation of innocent folly , productive of no evil to the commonwealth . But in reality this folly is pro- ductive of manifold evils to the community . If the reputation of taste can be acquired , without the least ...
Pàgina 104
... endeavour to explain when we come to consider the sublime . Were we to judge every production by the ri- gorous rules of nature , we should reject the Iliad of Homer , the Æneid of Virgil , and every celebrated tragedy of antiquity and ...
... endeavour to explain when we come to consider the sublime . Were we to judge every production by the ri- gorous rules of nature , we should reject the Iliad of Homer , the Æneid of Virgil , and every celebrated tragedy of antiquity and ...
Pàgina 121
... endeavour to point out the criteria , by which poetry is distin- guished from every other species of writing . In common with other arts , such as statuary and paint- ing , it comprehends imitation , invention , composi- tion , and ...
... endeavour to point out the criteria , by which poetry is distin- guished from every other species of writing . In common with other arts , such as statuary and paint- ing , it comprehends imitation , invention , composi- tion , and ...
Pàgina 171
... endeavour to look for their remains in those countries , which , being in some measure retired from an intercourse with other na- tions , are still untinctured with foreign refinement , language , or breeding . The Irish will satisfy ...
... endeavour to look for their remains in those countries , which , being in some measure retired from an intercourse with other na- tions , are still untinctured with foreign refinement , language , or breeding . The Irish will satisfy ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 139 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Pàgina 139 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Pàgina 158 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's...
Pàgina 158 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pàgina 109 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Pàgina 148 - O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Pàgina 183 - Humor at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and a song. It depends upon the audience, whether they will actually drive those poor merry creatures from the stage, or sit at a play as gloomy as at the tabernacle. It is not easy to recover an art when once lost ; and it will be but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humor from the stage, we should ourselves...
Pàgina 81 - Let me no longer waste the night over the page of antiquity, or the sallies of contemporary genius ; but pursue the solitary walk, where vanity, ever changing, but a few hours past walked before me, where she kept up the pageant, and now, like a froward child, seems hushed with her own importunities.
Pàgina 74 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Pàgina 77 - It formed an attack upon a neighbouring fortification with great vigour, and at first was as vigorously repulsed. Not daunted, however, with one defeat, in this manner it continued to lay siege to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance...