The Periodical Essayists of the Eighteenth Century: With Illustrative Extracts from the Rarer PeriodicalsJ. Clarke & Company, limited, 1924 - 263 pàgines |
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Pàgina 160 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Pàgina 121 - ... himself again to the disposal of chance. This negligence did not proceed from indifference, or from weariness of their present condition ; for not one of those who thus rushed upon destruction, failed, when he was sinking, to call loudly upon his associates for that help which could not now be given him ; and many spent their last moments in cautioning others against the folly by which they were intercepted in the midst of their course.
Pàgina 29 - The general purpose of the whole has been to recommend truth,, innocence, honour, and virtue, as the chief ornaments of life ; but I considered, that severity of manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that reason, and that only, chose to talk in a mask.
Pàgina 146 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received,...
Pàgina 123 - It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established ; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.
Pàgina 120 - is a voyage, in the " progress of which we are perpetually changing " our scenes : we first leave childhood behind " us, then youth, then the years of ripened " manhood, then the- better and more pleasing
Pàgina 183 - Tho' none are injured by my rage, I am naturally too savage to court any friends by fawning ; too obstinate to be taught new tricks ; and too improvident to mind what may happen : I am appeased, though not contented. Too...
Pàgina 27 - I was a whole hour in adjusting of them, and have still a doubt upon me, whether in the second line it should be, " Your song you sing ; or, You sing your song ? " You shall hear them both : Or ; I fancy, when your song you sing (Your song you sing with so much art),' I fancy, when your song you sing (You sing your song with so much art).
Pàgina 123 - His stanza is at once difficult and unpleasing; tiresome to the ear by its uniformity, and to the attention by its length. It was at first formed in imitation of the Italian poets, without due regard to the genius of our language. The Italians have little variety of termination, and were forced to contrive...
Pàgina 206 - One bar, indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame, — the language in which most of his poems are written. Even in Scotland, the provincial dialect which Ramsay and he have used is now read with a difficulty which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader...