The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina v
... ............ 129. On the Prevailing Taste in Poetry 130. On the Peculiar Danger of falling into Indo- lence in a Literary and Retired Life ......... 42 46 50 57755 55 55 No. 131. On the Manners of a Metropolis ............... 132.
... ............ 129. On the Prevailing Taste in Poetry 130. On the Peculiar Danger of falling into Indo- lence in a Literary and Retired Life ......... 42 46 50 57755 55 55 No. 131. On the Manners of a Metropolis ............... 132.
Pàgina vi
James Ferguson. No. 131. On the Manners of a Metropolis ............... 132. On Philelphus and Theodore Gaza , Polite Page 59 Scholars of the Fifteenth Century ............ 64 133. On the Inefficacy of that Style of Speaking and Writing ...
James Ferguson. No. 131. On the Manners of a Metropolis ............... 132. On Philelphus and Theodore Gaza , Polite Page 59 Scholars of the Fifteenth Century ............ 64 133. On the Inefficacy of that Style of Speaking and Writing ...
Pàgina 22
... manner which can never be out of fashion ; but which will enable them to secure , as well as extend their conquests ; and to charm , even when the lilies and roses are all withered . If the poem should effect its very laudable purpose ...
... manner which can never be out of fashion ; but which will enable them to secure , as well as extend their conquests ; and to charm , even when the lilies and roses are all withered . If the poem should effect its very laudable purpose ...
Pàgina 26
... manner , when he introduced her to their notice in the buskin . Instructive , entertaining , animating , and ennobling , as is the spirit of the tragic muse , is it not wonder- ful that many can slight its efficacy , or view its fine ...
... manner , when he introduced her to their notice in the buskin . Instructive , entertaining , animating , and ennobling , as is the spirit of the tragic muse , is it not wonder- ful that many can slight its efficacy , or view its fine ...
Pàgina 37
... manner as to destroy the appear- ance of a perfect symmetry . In this species of ex- cellence Xenophon is confessedly a model . He has been called the Attic Muse and the Attic Bee . It has been said that the Muses would express them ...
... manner as to destroy the appear- ance of a perfect symmetry . In this species of ex- cellence Xenophon is confessedly a model . He has been called the Attic Muse and the Attic Bee . It has been said that the Muses would express them ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 172 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Pàgina 171 - ... little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh. — I saw the iron enter into his soul ! — I burst into tears. I could not sustain the picture of confinement...
Pàgina 164 - ... against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune.
Pàgina 194 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Pàgina 11 - Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Pàgina 152 - That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation.
Pàgina 171 - Maria, though not tall, was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms; affliction had touched her looks with something that was scarce earthly, — still she was feminine; and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes, or the eye looks for in woman...
Pàgina 164 - No ! the charges against me are all of one kind : that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far, — further than a cautious policy would warrant, and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Pàgina 255 - But, even in these, topics incidentally arise, which require elevated expression, and an inverted construction. Not to raise the style on these occasions, is to write unnaturally ; for nature teaches us to express animated emotions of every kind in animated language. The dependent writes unnaturally to a superior, in the style of familiarity. The suppliant writes unnaturally, if he rejects the figures dictated by distress. Conversation admits of every style but the poetic; and what are letters but...
Pàgina 17 - ... whereby the slaughter of a beast was made almost as penal as the death of a man. In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue and kill it upon his own estate. But the rigour of these new constitutions vested the sole property of all the game in England in the king alone; and no man was entitled to disturb any fowl of the air, or any beast of the field, of such kinds as were specially reserved for the royal amusement of the...