An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213페이지 |
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... acquainted with Mazzard Hill than they are with the Tarpeian Rock ; and though ignorant of the meaning of lustres and laticlaves , know correctly what a natural child signifies ; and are intimate with every D corner in Molly Seagrim's ...
... acquainted with Mazzard Hill than they are with the Tarpeian Rock ; and though ignorant of the meaning of lustres and laticlaves , know correctly what a natural child signifies ; and are intimate with every D corner in Molly Seagrim's ...
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... , when they have executed their felonious office , and transformed the innocent into the depraved . In support of my assertion , it would be unnecessary to adduce particular passages for the conviction of those who are already acquainted ...
... , when they have executed their felonious office , and transformed the innocent into the depraved . In support of my assertion , it would be unnecessary to adduce particular passages for the conviction of those who are already acquainted ...
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... acquainted with any of the above - named works ; and to do so for the information of such as are not , would be unsuitable to the character I wish to sustain . Indeed , the improper parts are so numerous , and of so gross a texture , as ...
... acquainted with any of the above - named works ; and to do so for the information of such as are not , would be unsuitable to the character I wish to sustain . Indeed , the improper parts are so numerous , and of so gross a texture , as ...
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... we are informed that the story is not to be received barely as the pro- duct of imagination ; but that M. Goëthe has given the world little else than the particulars of a fact occurring within the circle of his own acquaint- ance . It 62.
... we are informed that the story is not to be received barely as the pro- duct of imagination ; but that M. Goëthe has given the world little else than the particulars of a fact occurring within the circle of his own acquaint- ance . It 62.
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... acquaint- ance . It appears that the prototype of Werter was the son of a celebrated theo- logist of Brunswick , and killed himself for love of a lady of Wetzlar . The son of a divine should have been better instructed than to cherish ...
... acquaint- ance . It appears that the prototype of Werter was the son of a celebrated theo- logist of Brunswick , and killed himself for love of a lady of Wetzlar . The son of a divine should have been better instructed than to cherish ...
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176 페이지 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
175 페이지 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
168 페이지 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; — The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain — A new creation rescued from his reign.
167 페이지 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The...
181 페이지 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
188 페이지 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
174 페이지 - As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
189 페이지 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
183 페이지 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.
188 페이지 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.