The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 51
... racter of a satirical versifier . On the other hand , the authors of the Traveller , and of the Lives of the English Poets , hesitate not to strip the laurels from the brow of the lyric Gray . Goldsmith , in his Life of Parnell , has ...
... racter of a satirical versifier . On the other hand , the authors of the Traveller , and of the Lives of the English Poets , hesitate not to strip the laurels from the brow of the lyric Gray . Goldsmith , in his Life of Parnell , has ...
Pàgina 104
... racter and solidity of judgment in a degree suffi- cient to enable them to stand forth disinterested and efficient censors of prevailing folly and fashion- able vice . No. CXL . On Logic and Metaphysics . To false and careless reasoning ...
... racter and solidity of judgment in a degree suffi- cient to enable them to stand forth disinterested and efficient censors of prevailing folly and fashion- able vice . No. CXL . On Logic and Metaphysics . To false and careless reasoning ...
Pàgina 165
... racter a reverence for virtue , and a tendency to in- spire a laudable emulation . He who is early , long , and successfully conversant with them will find his bosom filled with the love of truth , and finely af- fected with a delicate ...
... racter a reverence for virtue , and a tendency to in- spire a laudable emulation . He who is early , long , and successfully conversant with them will find his bosom filled with the love of truth , and finely af- fected with a delicate ...
Pàgina 178
... racter , which is lavished away on literary trash , would render many a mind , which is now vain and superficial , really elegant , prudent , and well in- formed . The time spent under the operation of the hair dresser is very properly ...
... racter , which is lavished away on literary trash , would render many a mind , which is now vain and superficial , really elegant , prudent , and well in- formed . The time spent under the operation of the hair dresser is very properly ...
Pàgina 208
... racter of this sort flies from misery , to show that it is too delicate to support the sight of distress . The appearance of a toad or the jolting of a car- riage will cause a paroxysm of fear . It pretends to a superior share of ...
... racter of this sort flies from misery , to show that it is too delicate to support the sight of distress . The appearance of a toad or the jolting of a car- riage will cause a paroxysm of fear . It pretends to a superior share of ...
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