An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 σελίδες |
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... , but of what is termed the humour of Tom Jones ; and if so , my last observation will apply with undiminish- ed force this humour is unpalatable to minds not contaminated . In speaking of the Beggar's Opera , and its alleged 39.
... , but of what is termed the humour of Tom Jones ; and if so , my last observation will apply with undiminish- ed force this humour is unpalatable to minds not contaminated . In speaking of the Beggar's Opera , and its alleged 39.
Σελίδα 54
... force : for the author is a master , and touches every chord of hu- man sensibility with a master's hand . But the goodly work is , alas ! marred , and its efficacy counteracted , by its being interlarded with scenes perfectly ...
... force : for the author is a master , and touches every chord of hu- man sensibility with a master's hand . But the goodly work is , alas ! marred , and its efficacy counteracted , by its being interlarded with scenes perfectly ...
Σελίδα 112
... force . It has been said , that the chief personages in these works are of a rank too elevated to afford whole- some examples to the general reader ; and , that all the amiable characters of the author in question are loaded with ...
... force . It has been said , that the chief personages in these works are of a rank too elevated to afford whole- some examples to the general reader ; and , that all the amiable characters of the author in question are loaded with ...
Σελίδα 126
... - cissitudes , without the least appearance of exaggeration or force . The reader sheds tears at their sorrows , and exults in their restoration to felicity : but the depression of spirits created by the perusal has in it 126.
... - cissitudes , without the least appearance of exaggeration or force . The reader sheds tears at their sorrows , and exults in their restoration to felicity : but the depression of spirits created by the perusal has in it 126.
Σελίδα 162
... force , as to render a laboured re- futation superfluous . He must know , as well as any one , that excellence in an author consists not in writing much but in writing well . When we read the ode addressed by Horace to Aristius ( 22d ...
... force , as to render a laboured re- futation superfluous . He must know , as well as any one , that excellence in an author consists not in writing much but in writing well . When we read the ode addressed by Horace to Aristius ( 22d ...
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Σελίδα 176 - 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...
Σελίδα 175 - 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.
Σελίδα 168 - 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.
Σελίδα 167 - 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...
Σελίδα 181 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
Σελίδα 188 - 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...
Σελίδα 174 - 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.
Σελίδα 189 - 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...
Σελίδα 183 - 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.
Σελίδα 188 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.