Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler ; and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eight Volume of the Spectator and the Commencement of the Year 1809, 1권J. Seeley, 1809 |
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... humanarum- que conjuncta . QUINTILIANUS . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PRINTED BY J. SEELEY , BUCKINGHAM , FOR W. SUTTABY , STATIONERS COURT , LONDON . 1809 . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 544672A ASTOR , LENOX AND ESSAYS ,
... humanarum- que conjuncta . QUINTILIANUS . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PRINTED BY J. SEELEY , BUCKINGHAM , FOR W. SUTTABY , STATIONERS COURT , LONDON . 1809 . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 544672A ASTOR , LENOX AND ESSAYS ,
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... printing . " The allusion in the last line of this quotation is to the motto of the Tatler , N ° 108 . Steele is supposed to have ridiculed Mr. Baker under the character of Nick Doubt , in No 91 of the Tatler . 5. THE TORY TATLER . Of ...
... printing . " The allusion in the last line of this quotation is to the motto of the Tatler , N ° 108 . Steele is supposed to have ridiculed Mr. Baker under the character of Nick Doubt , in No 91 of the Tatler . 5. THE TORY TATLER . Of ...
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... Printed in small 4to ; and , as the title - page expresses Vol . 1 , we may presume that a continuation was intended ; but , probably , the want of sale gave a broad hint to the Editor , which he had just wit enough to take . August ...
... Printed in small 4to ; and , as the title - page expresses Vol . 1 , we may presume that a continuation was intended ; but , probably , the want of sale gave a broad hint to the Editor , which he had just wit enough to take . August ...
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... printed many more had not the death of the Queen arrested the progress of his pen . The Examiner existed during the four last years of Queen Anne , the first number being dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had ...
... printed many more had not the death of the Queen arrested the progress of his pen . The Examiner existed during the four last years of Queen Anne , the first number being dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had ...
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... for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through several towns in the west . The sentence was carried into execution with so much severity , that the 14 ENUMERATION OF.
... for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through several towns in the west . The sentence was carried into execution with so much severity , that the 14 ENUMERATION OF.
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Aaron Hill Addison admirable appeared beauty biographical booksellers Boswell Boswell's catalogue Cato's Letters celebrated character Cicero collection commenced composition contributed correct critical death defects degree diction Dictionary Dunciad edition elegant English English Language entituled essays excellence favour genius Gentleman's Magazine given honour humour Idler imagination imitation Isaac Bickerstaff Journal justly labour language Latin learning letter Lichfield likewise literary literature Lives London Lord Lord Chesterfield manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never observes occasion occasionally octavo opinion original passage passion periodical papers perspicuous poem poetical poetry poets political Pope possess powers praise Preface printed production published racter Rambler Rasselas reader remarks Samuel Johnson satire satire of Juvenal says sentiments Shakspeare shew Sir John Hawkins soon specimens Spectator spirit Steele style taste Tatler thought tion translation volume writer written
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339 페이지 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
301 페이지 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
248 페이지 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
330 페이지 - 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.
132 페이지 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
367 페이지 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
332 페이지 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
167 페이지 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
338 페이지 - ... author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great...
368 페이지 - He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.