The British Essayists: AdventurerNichols and Son, 1817 |
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Pàgina vi
... Excellence less desirable than Virtue . Al- merine and Shelimah ; a Fairy Tale 104. The Fairy Tale concluded 105. On the Fragments of Menander 106. Insensibility of Danger , when mis- taken for Courage JOHNSON HAWKES . WARTON · HAWKES ...
... Excellence less desirable than Virtue . Al- merine and Shelimah ; a Fairy Tale 104. The Fairy Tale concluded 105. On the Fragments of Menander 106. Insensibility of Danger , when mis- taken for Courage JOHNSON HAWKES . WARTON · HAWKES ...
Pàgina 6
... excellence of the tenth pastoral , I cannot forbear to give the preference to the first , which is equally natural and more diversi- fied . The complaint of the shepherd , who saw his old companion at ease in the shade , while himself ...
... excellence of the tenth pastoral , I cannot forbear to give the preference to the first , which is equally natural and more diversi- fied . The complaint of the shepherd , who saw his old companion at ease in the shade , while himself ...
Pàgina 23
... excellence , will be certain to engage a set of readers , whom no other method would have equally allured ; and he that communicates truth with success , must be numbered among the first benefac- tors to mankind . The same observation ...
... excellence , will be certain to engage a set of readers , whom no other method would have equally allured ; and he that communicates truth with success , must be numbered among the first benefac- tors to mankind . The same observation ...
Pàgina 37
... excellence which ought always to be aimed at in every well - conducted ' fable , and for the want of which a variety of the most entertaining incidents can scarcely atone . Z. N ° 98. SATURDAY , OCTOBER 13 , 1753 . Aude aliquid brevibus ...
... excellence which ought always to be aimed at in every well - conducted ' fable , and for the want of which a variety of the most entertaining incidents can scarcely atone . Z. N ° 98. SATURDAY , OCTOBER 13 , 1753 . Aude aliquid brevibus ...
Pàgina 54
... excellence ; I learned several feats of mi- micry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the practice ...
... excellence ; I learned several feats of mi- micry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the practice ...
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acquaintance ADVENTURER affection Almerine ancients appearance Aristophanes bagnio beauty became Boileau burlesque Caliban Caprinus Carazan censure character Clodio considered Cordelia courage Crito danger daugh daughters Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN entreated equal Euripides evil excellence eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fortune frequently gentleman Goneril gratify guilt happiness hast heart Hilario honour hope Hudibras imagination impatient increased insensibility kind knew labour lady Lear less look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery morning nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetual person pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus present produced Quintilian reason received reflected SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah solicitous Soliman solitude sometimes soon Sophocles suffered superaddition Telephus tenderness thee Theocritus things thou thought tion told truth TUESDAY utmost VIRG virtue wish wretch writers