Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Τόμος 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα iv
... writings of Addison and his coadjutors may no longer have the grace of novelty in the eyes of veteran readers , yet they will always be new to a rifing generation . The greater part of this book , however , confifts of extracts from ...
... writings of Addison and his coadjutors may no longer have the grace of novelty in the eyes of veteran readers , yet they will always be new to a rifing generation . The greater part of this book , however , confifts of extracts from ...
Σελίδα xviii
... Writings Brown . 305 215 Queen Anne's Prayer 217 The gay young Altamont dying Young . 306 216 Prince Eugene's Prayer 306 218 Majefty and Supremacy of the Scriptures confeffed by a Sceptic Rouffeau . 307 219 Earl of Rochester's dying ...
... Writings Brown . 305 215 Queen Anne's Prayer 217 The gay young Altamont dying Young . 306 216 Prince Eugene's Prayer 306 218 Majefty and Supremacy of the Scriptures confeffed by a Sceptic Rouffeau . 307 219 Earl of Rochester's dying ...
Σελίδα xxi
... Writing 574 187 Objectors answered 482 138 Habit makes Practice eafy 482 239 Style of Horace in his Moral Writings 240 Criterion of Tafte 575 577 159 Tre Constituent Parts of every 241 On Mr. Pope's Houfe at Binfield 579 Whole merit our ...
... Writing 574 187 Objectors answered 482 138 Habit makes Practice eafy 482 239 Style of Horace in his Moral Writings 240 Criterion of Tafte 575 577 159 Tre Constituent Parts of every 241 On Mr. Pope's Houfe at Binfield 579 Whole merit our ...
Σελίδα 21
... writings . I often confider mankind as wholly in . confiftent with itself , in a point that bears fome affinity to the former . Though we feem grieved at the shortness of life , in ge- neral , we are wishing every period of it at an end ...
... writings . I often confider mankind as wholly in . confiftent with itself , in a point that bears fome affinity to the former . Though we feem grieved at the shortness of life , in ge- neral , we are wishing every period of it at an end ...
Σελίδα 58
... writings of the ancient ftoics ; a fect diftinguished for pro- ducing the most active , intrepid , virtuous men , that ever did honour to human na- ture . Can it be pretended , that atheism or univerfal fcepticifm have any tendency to ...
... writings of the ancient ftoics ; a fect diftinguished for pro- ducing the most active , intrepid , virtuous men , that ever did honour to human na- ture . Can it be pretended , that atheism or univerfal fcepticifm have any tendency to ...
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Σελίδα 12 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Σελίδα 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Σελίδα 32 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Σελίδα 180 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Σελίδα 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Σελίδα 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Σελίδα 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Σελίδα 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Σελίδα 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Σελίδα 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...