Letters on Several Subjects, Volum 2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 |
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Pàgina 24
... French , I fear , rather incline to the fyftem of their impure neigh- bours ; and though the exclufion of foul is not abfolutely neceffary in France , as it almost appears to be in Italy , yet , I repeat it , I am afraid that it does ...
... French , I fear , rather incline to the fyftem of their impure neigh- bours ; and though the exclufion of foul is not abfolutely neceffary in France , as it almost appears to be in Italy , yet , I repeat it , I am afraid that it does ...
Pàgina 27
... French is , in reality , but gallantry , and it's principal object is amufement . My definition then is drawn from England . I cannot fpare a word out of it ; they are all precious .. Love can no more exist without friendship than it ...
... French is , in reality , but gallantry , and it's principal object is amufement . My definition then is drawn from England . I cannot fpare a word out of it ; they are all precious .. Love can no more exist without friendship than it ...
Pàgina 37
... French in general . No ; they are charmed by the sweetness of his verfification , the elegance of his lan- guage , and by the tenderness of his fi- tuations and fentiments . It is with the poets and true critics that this has fo much ...
... French in general . No ; they are charmed by the sweetness of his verfification , the elegance of his lan- guage , and by the tenderness of his fi- tuations and fentiments . It is with the poets and true critics that this has fo much ...
Pàgina 38
... and Paris . This is what the French mean about books . They would have the Whole imagined , and the difpofition of each part fettled , beforé an author entered 1 6 upon upon the execution of a work . This was Racine's [ 38 ]
... and Paris . This is what the French mean about books . They would have the Whole imagined , and the difpofition of each part fettled , beforé an author entered 1 6 upon upon the execution of a work . This was Racine's [ 38 ]
Pàgina 59
... amusement . Thefe three authors fixed the taste of the French nation . This was the first great advantage Voltaire had over Shakspeare . The taste of his nation was one ; confe- quently quently he had but one palate to please . That [ 59 ]
... amusement . Thefe three authors fixed the taste of the French nation . This was the first great advantage Voltaire had over Shakspeare . The taste of his nation was one ; confe- quently quently he had but one palate to please . That [ 59 ]
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 84 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Pàgina 190 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 42 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Pàgina 148 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Pàgina 40 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Pàgina 147 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Pàgina 51 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Pàgina 197 - Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
Pàgina 194 - ... them in ; or to place them in an attitude, in which they have not been already placed. But talking of a nation, if one did not say something about so considerable a part of it, the subject must appear mutilated and imperfect. As brevity is the soul of wit...
Pàgina 176 - I'll do them juftice. Let every man who knows that nation fpeak of it as he found it; if he lived in their intimacy for years (as I did), and if he found them ill-natured, ill-mannered, treacherous, and cowardly, let him fpeak his mind. I quarrel with no man who judges for himfelf, and who fpsaks the truth.