The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1801 |
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Pàgina xviii
... given rather a pleafing than a faithful reprefentation , having retained their sprightliness , but loft their fimplicity . The next clafs of poems is called The Miftrefs ; they have all the fame beauties and faults , and , nearly in the ...
... given rather a pleafing than a faithful reprefentation , having retained their sprightliness , but loft their fimplicity . The next clafs of poems is called The Miftrefs ; they have all the fame beauties and faults , and , nearly in the ...
Pàgina xxxviii
... given few examples ; cri- tical decifion has allotted the praife of ftrength to Den- ham , and sweetness to Waller . His harmony of verfifica tion has fome abatement : he ufes the expletive do very frequently ; and , though he lived to ...
... given few examples ; cri- tical decifion has allotted the praife of ftrength to Den- ham , and sweetness to Waller . His harmony of verfifica tion has fome abatement : he ufes the expletive do very frequently ; and , though he lived to ...
Pàgina 15
... given to the quef- tion ; but the truth was , no agree- ment of any fort had ever been made , nor did we mean at all events to procure the emancipation of Hol- land . To have taken the fleet with the promise of delivering it up to its ...
... given to the quef- tion ; but the truth was , no agree- ment of any fort had ever been made , nor did we mean at all events to procure the emancipation of Hol- land . To have taken the fleet with the promise of delivering it up to its ...
Pàgina 24
... given previous to the difcuffion of a matter fo complicated . He faw no neceffity , for example , to in- creafe the falaries of the lords of the admiralty because that of the fecretary of the admiralty was aug- mented . Scarcely any ...
... given previous to the difcuffion of a matter fo complicated . He faw no neceffity , for example , to in- creafe the falaries of the lords of the admiralty because that of the fecretary of the admiralty was aug- mented . Scarcely any ...
Pàgina 27
... given last year ] for 3,000,000l . to be provided for in the ways and means of the prefent year . It was his intention to vote for a like fum to be charged on the ways and means of the year 1801 ; but in the mean time he must include it ...
... given last year ] for 3,000,000l . to be provided for in the ways and means of the prefent year . It was his intention to vote for a like fum to be charged on the ways and means of the year 1801 ; but in the mean time he must include it ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina xii - Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
Pàgina 215 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa?
Pàgina 39 - I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears - a poor Negrodriver - or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of spirits! I can truly say...
Pàgina xix - In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.
Pàgina xiii - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Pàgina xiii - Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Pàgina 207 - Hark ! where the sweeping scythe now rips along : Each sturdy mower emulous and strong ; Whose writhing form meridian heat defies, Bends o'er his work, and every sinew tries ; Prostrates the waving treasure at his feet, But spares the rising clover, short and sweet. Come, Health ! come, Jollity ! light-footed, come ; Here hold your revels, and make this your home. Each heart awaits and hails you as its own ; Each moisten'd brow, that scorns to wear a frown : Th...
Pàgina 37 - I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them and the composition of most of my correspondents, flattered my vanity. I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings...
Pàgina xxxvi - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz.
Pàgina xiv - When their reputation was high, they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind.