An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213페이지 |
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... there , should I think it necessary to enlarge further upon this topic : for had novels produced nothing in civilised life except a dinner to the writer , and a harmless expedient for killing time to the reader , though I 8.
... there , should I think it necessary to enlarge further upon this topic : for had novels produced nothing in civilised life except a dinner to the writer , and a harmless expedient for killing time to the reader , though I 8.
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... only as means of occasional relaxation to the very high and the very low : to the peer- ess , and her housemaid ; the senator and his groom . On these , their effect , if they produce any , can be but transient . And 10.
... only as means of occasional relaxation to the very high and the very low : to the peer- ess , and her housemaid ; the senator and his groom . On these , their effect , if they produce any , can be but transient . And 10.
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... produce any , can be but transient . And , falling under the eye of the en- lightened man of letters , or of the dis- creet and decorous mother of a family , they are perused with apathy , or thrown aside with contempt . If the ...
... produce any , can be but transient . And , falling under the eye of the en- lightened man of letters , or of the dis- creet and decorous mother of a family , they are perused with apathy , or thrown aside with contempt . If the ...
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... produced to society is of a nature so exceedingly alarming , that it is im- possible to smile when we reflect on the operation of such ingredients as are used in their composition . " But this is not entirely the case with regard to a ...
... produced to society is of a nature so exceedingly alarming , that it is im- possible to smile when we reflect on the operation of such ingredients as are used in their composition . " But this is not entirely the case with regard to a ...
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... produced an interest sufficient for the economy of rural domestication . " Soon after this event , the lady be- comes a widow , and retires to the vil lage of Bellonmore in Devon , which is described as a luxuriated county . She " fairy ...
... produced an interest sufficient for the economy of rural domestication . " Soon after this event , the lady be- comes a widow , and retires to the vil lage of Bellonmore in Devon , which is described as a luxuriated county . She " fairy ...
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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.