The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Том 7 |
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... observation , " That men who have a great deal of wit , and prompt memo- ries , have not always the clearest judgment , or deepest reason . ' For wit lying most in the assem- blage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness ...
... observation , " That men who have a great deal of wit , and prompt memo- ries , have not always the clearest judgment , or deepest reason . ' For wit lying most in the assem- blage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness ...
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... observing the cold regard of his mistress's eyes , and at the same time their power of producing love in him , considers them as burning - glasses made of ice ; and finding himself able to live in the greatest extremities of love ...
... observing the cold regard of his mistress's eyes , and at the same time their power of producing love in him , considers them as burning - glasses made of ice ; and finding himself able to live in the greatest extremities of love ...
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... observe in every one of these instances , that the poet mixes the qualities of fire with those of love ; and in the same sentence speak- ing of it both as a passion and as real fire , surprises the reader with those seeming resemblances ...
... observe in every one of these instances , that the poet mixes the qualities of fire with those of love ; and in the same sentence speak- ing of it both as a passion and as real fire , surprises the reader with those seeming resemblances ...
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... observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to Æneas , in the following words : Ovid ( says he , speaking of Vir ... observe , that the taste of most of our English poets , as well as readers , is extremely Gothic . He quotes Mon ...
... observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to Æneas , in the following words : Ovid ( says he , speaking of Vir ... observe , that the taste of most of our English poets , as well as readers , is extremely Gothic . He quotes Mon ...
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... observing , that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned has discovered the most fruitful source of wit , so there is another of a quite contrary nature to it , which does likewise branch itself out into several kinds . For not only ...
... observing , that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned has discovered the most fruitful source of wit , so there is another of a quite contrary nature to it , which does likewise branch itself out into several kinds . For not only ...
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Стр. 136 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Стр. 235 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Стр. 225 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Стр. 232 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Стр. 216 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.
Стр. 280 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Стр. 232 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
Стр. 211 - ... approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Стр. 210 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
Стр. 218 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.