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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... present age , exclusive of the immediate harm we do , and suffer , are liable to be stigmatised by future generations as the abettors of obscenity , scurrility , and folly , as bad as any thing for which we ourselves condemn the ...
... present age , exclusive of the immediate harm we do , and suffer , are liable to be stigmatised by future generations as the abettors of obscenity , scurrility , and folly , as bad as any thing for which we ourselves condemn the ...
Σελίδα 45
... however , foreign to my present purpose ; which is to prove , that , whatever may be their mas- terly qualifications in other points , they are not to be esteemed teachers of politeness or of virtue , but of coarseness and immorality 45.
... however , foreign to my present purpose ; which is to prove , that , whatever may be their mas- terly qualifications in other points , they are not to be esteemed teachers of politeness or of virtue , but of coarseness and immorality 45.
Σελίδα 57
... books of useful instruction , Some of these I shall mention hereafter ; but my present course requires that I should enter a protest , as the friend both of purity and reason , against a work called " The Monk ; " the author of which has ...
... books of useful instruction , Some of these I shall mention hereafter ; but my present course requires that I should enter a protest , as the friend both of purity and reason , against a work called " The Monk ; " the author of which has ...
Σελίδα 63
... to him . And M. Goëthe might have employed his time on a less hurtful subject ; in- stead of selecting decidedly one of the most unfit to present to the attention of youth . Speaking of his hero , in an address prefixed to 63.
... to him . And M. Goëthe might have employed his time on a less hurtful subject ; in- stead of selecting decidedly one of the most unfit to present to the attention of youth . Speaking of his hero , in an address prefixed to 63.
Σελίδα 91
... present my reader with some of its beauties ; and request , that , should a few of my extracts prove rather unintelligi- ble , that circumstance may not be attri- buted to any dulness on his part , nor to any want of accuracy on mine ...
... present my reader with some of its beauties ; and request , that , should a few of my extracts prove rather unintelligi- ble , that circumstance may not be attri- buted to any dulness on his part , nor to any want of accuracy on mine ...
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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.