Select British Classics, 10권J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... readers as the common cause of Literature . Having been long a student , I thought myself qua- lified in time to become an author . My enquiries have been much diversified and far extended , and not finding my genius directing me by ...
... readers as the common cause of Literature . Having been long a student , I thought myself qua- lified in time to become an author . My enquiries have been much diversified and far extended , and not finding my genius directing me by ...
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... readers , and quickly loses them ; for what should make the book valued when its subject is no more ? These observations will shew the reason why the poem of Hudibras is almost forgotten , however em bellished with sentiments and ...
... readers , and quickly loses them ; for what should make the book valued when its subject is no more ? These observations will shew the reason why the poem of Hudibras is almost forgotten , however em bellished with sentiments and ...
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... readers by a long or laboured exhortation ; it is sufficient , since all would be critics if they could , to shew by one eminent example that all can be cri- tics if they will . Dick Minim , after the common course of puerile studies ...
... readers by a long or laboured exhortation ; it is sufficient , since all would be critics if they could , to shew by one eminent example that all can be cri- tics if they will . Dick Minim , after the common course of puerile studies ...
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... reader or delight him . The first state is commonly antecedent to the prac- tice of writing ; the ignorant essays of imperfect dic- tion pass away with the savage generation that uttered them . No nation can trace their language beyond ...
... reader or delight him . The first state is commonly antecedent to the prac- tice of writing ; the ignorant essays of imperfect dic- tion pass away with the savage generation that uttered them . No nation can trace their language beyond ...
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... readers can- not but feel some curiosity to know the sequel of my story ; for though , by trying the different schemes of pleasure , I have yet found nothing in which I could finally acquiesce ; yet the narrative of my attempts will not ...
... readers can- not but feel some curiosity to know the sequel of my story ; for though , by trying the different schemes of pleasure , I have yet found nothing in which I could finally acquiesce ; yet the narrative of my attempts will not ...
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admired amusement authors Bassora beauty Carlo Maratti censure character coach common commonly considered couplet criticism curiosity delight desire Dick diligence easily easy poetry elegance eminent endeavour English enquire Epictetus epitaph equally evil expected expence faults fortune friends genius happiness honour hope hour Hudibras Idler Iliad imagination inscription Italian king of Norway knowledge labour lady language Lapland learned less lines live mankind marriage memory ment mind nation nature neglected neral never numbers observed OCTOBER 20 once opinion Ortogrul painter painting panegyric pass passions perhaps pleasure poets praise produce rapture readers reason resolved retired rich SATURDAY seldom seldom disappointed sense shew sometimes Sophron SPRITELY suffered Sugar-baker supposed tell thagoras ther thing thought tion told tomb Trifle truth Venetian school verse virtue weary Westminster Abbey wish wonder words write
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184 페이지 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
82 페이지 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.
98 페이지 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
183 페이지 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear ; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
89 페이지 - It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed ; but it must be considered, that, if the excellency of a painter consisted only in this kind of imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best...
186 페이지 - On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her Breast. ' Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense ; No conquest she, but o'er herself desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that Virtue only is our own.
187 페이지 - Pensive hast follow'd to the silent tomb, Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore, Not parted long, and now to part no more ! Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
106 페이지 - NOVEMBER 24, 1759. .BIOGRAPHY is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life.
191 페이지 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...
92 페이지 - That every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced, and almost universally confessed; but let us not attend only to mournful truths; if we look impartially about us, we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures and its joys.