The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq

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T. Cadell, 1770
 

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232 페이지 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness...
240 페이지 - To pafs without any notice the agreeable and the elegant pieces of architefture, which without crowding adorn thofe delightful gardens ; perhaps there is not a phyftck garden in Europe where any botanift can be more agreeably entertained, as to the variety of curious ' plants. But there is fomething new as far as I know, and particularly ingenious here in the difpofition and management of them.
238 페이지 - Whitehall : and one more, that ought to be demolifhed; if it was for no other reafon but to reftore the view of an elegant church,, which has now for many years been buried alive behind the Manfion-houfe. It is indeed fome comfort, that while Tafte and Genius happen to be very falfe and impotent in moft of the fine arts, they are not fo in all.
149 페이지 - AD of creating a parcel of awkward new words, I imagine it would be an improvement to degrade many of the old ones from their peerage. I am but a private man, and without authority ; but an abfolute...
134 페이지 - And a man of true genius muft neceffarily have as .exquifi te a feeling of the moral beauties, as of whatever is great or beautiful in the works of nature ; or mafterly in the arts, which imitate nature, in poetry, painting, ftatuary, and mufic. On the other fide, where the -heart is very bad, the genius and tafte,. if there, happen to be any pretenfions to them, will be found mocking and unnatural. NERO would be nothing lefs than a poet } but his verfes were what one may call moft VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
136 페이지 - ... of tafte in its various kinds. For the tafte in writing and painting-, and in every thing elfe, is infenfibly formed upon what we are accuftomed to ; as well as tafte in eating and drinking. One who from his youth...
165 페이지 - ... void of harmony : it is want of feeling. For let the ear be what it will, if the...
239 페이지 - ... and a thoufand other contemptible whims, that a continuation of the fame ground in its rude natural Hate, is infinitely more delightful.
147 페이지 - IT is the eaiieft thing imaginable to coin words. The moft ignorant of the mobility are apt to do it every day, and are laughed at for it.
141 페이지 - TT is not always fo eafy to get rid of an impertinent companion, as of a filly book ; otherwife, to be for ever aiming at Wit, would be as teizing and intolerable in writing as in converfation. Too much even of genuine Wit is cloying, and the vanity of difplaying it inceflantly will fatigue and difguft every reader whole tafte is true.

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