The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... kind of wit which consists partly in the resemblance of ideas , and partly in the resemblance of words , which for distinction sake I shall call mixt wit . This kind of wit is that which abounds in Cowley , more than in any author that ...
... kind of wit which consists partly in the resemblance of ideas , and partly in the resemblance of words , which for distinction sake I shall call mixt wit . This kind of wit is that which abounds in Cowley , more than in any author that ...
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... kind of writing . Mixt wit therefore is a composition of pun and true wit , and is more or less perfect , as the resemblance lies in the ideas or in the words . Its foundations are laid partly in falsehood and partly in truth ; reason ...
... kind of writing . Mixt wit therefore is a composition of pun and true wit , and is more or less perfect , as the resemblance lies in the ideas or in the words . Its foundations are laid partly in falsehood and partly in truth ; reason ...
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... kind soever escape them . I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry , who like those in architecture , not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to supply its place with any ...
... kind soever escape them . I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry , who like those in architecture , not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to supply its place with any ...
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... kind of sculpture . I immediately went up to it , and found it to be a kind of heathen temple consecrated to the god of Dulness . Upon my entrance I saw the deity of the place dressed in the habit of a monk , with a book in one hand and ...
... kind of sculpture . I immediately went up to it , and found it to be a kind of heathen temple consecrated to the god of Dulness . Upon my entrance I saw the deity of the place dressed in the habit of a monk , with a book in one hand and ...
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... kind of dress , though perhaps there was not the least resemblance in their faces . By this means an old man was sometimes mistaken for a boy , a woman for a man , and a black - a - moor for an European , which very often produced great ...
... kind of dress , though perhaps there was not the least resemblance in their faces . By this means an old man was sometimes mistaken for a boy , a woman for a man , and a black - a - moor for an European , which very often produced great ...
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admire agreeable ALEXANDER CHALMERS animals appear beautiful behaviour body burning-glasses character club conversation court creatures daugh delight discourse Dorimant dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour Epig epigram Eucrate Eudoxus eyes face fair sex favour forbear fortune friend Sir Roger gentleman give Glaphyra greatest hand head hear heart honest honour humour idol imagination kind knight labour lady Laertes letter live look lover mankind manner master mind nature neral never observe occasion ordinary OVID particular pass passion person Phara Pharamond physiognomist Platonic love pleased pleasure poet present prince proper reader reason seems sense servants shew soul speak spect SPECTATOR Steenkirk tell temper thing thou thought tion Tmolus told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue walk whig whole woman women words writing young
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221 페이지 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
239 페이지 - So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
223 페이지 - ... 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...
195 페이지 - ... my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of an humorist; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
203 페이지 - 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. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed upon account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him.
33 페이지 - Cowley ; so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the -delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature. which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined.
54 페이지 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
264 페이지 - 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.
30 페이지 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
54 페이지 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...