Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, 2권1812 |
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... person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground with an agreeable re- serve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her counte ...
... person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground with an agreeable re- serve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her counte ...
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... persons . Is this the foundation which you lay for future usefulness and esteem ? By such accom- plishments do you hope to recommend yourselves to the thinking part of the world , and to answer the expectations of your friends and your ...
... persons . Is this the foundation which you lay for future usefulness and esteem ? By such accom- plishments do you hope to recommend yourselves to the thinking part of the world , and to answer the expectations of your friends and your ...
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... person alone could not lay the foundation , dig the cellars , make and burn the bricks , raise the walls , put on the roof , furnish the windows with glass , and decorate the apartments ; but all this is done with ease when different ...
... person alone could not lay the foundation , dig the cellars , make and burn the bricks , raise the walls , put on the roof , furnish the windows with glass , and decorate the apartments ; but all this is done with ease when different ...
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... person who manifests a constant desire to please , places his , perhaps small , stock of merit at great interest . What vast returns , then , must real merit , when thus adorned , necessarily bring in ! A prudent usurer would with ...
... person who manifests a constant desire to please , places his , perhaps small , stock of merit at great interest . What vast returns , then , must real merit , when thus adorned , necessarily bring in ! A prudent usurer would with ...
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... persons , places , and cir cumstances , and are only to be acquired by obser- vation and experience ; but the substance of it is every where and eternally the same . Good man- ners are , to particular societies , what good mo- rals are ...
... persons , places , and cir cumstances , and are only to be acquired by obser- vation and experience ; but the substance of it is every where and eternally the same . Good man- ners are , to particular societies , what good mo- rals are ...
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112 페이지 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
245 페이지 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
245 페이지 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
243 페이지 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
112 페이지 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
112 페이지 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
112 페이지 - Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one, must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men,...
111 페이지 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
252 페이지 - You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
111 페이지 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.