The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Quintilian bestows on De- metrius , a celebrated Grecian statuary , that he was " nimius in veritate , et similitudinis quam pulchri- tudinis amantior ; " more studious of likeness than of beauty . Though the maxims of the Duke de la ...
... Quintilian bestows on De- metrius , a celebrated Grecian statuary , that he was " nimius in veritate , et similitudinis quam pulchri- tudinis amantior ; " more studious of likeness than of beauty . Though the maxims of the Duke de la ...
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... QUINTILIAN . His great excellence was in moving compassion , with re- spect to which many give him the first place of all the writers of that kind . " SIR , 66 TO THE ADVENTURER . " It is usual for scholars to lament , with indiscri ...
... QUINTILIAN . His great excellence was in moving compassion , with re- spect to which many give him the first place of all the writers of that kind . " SIR , 66 TO THE ADVENTURER . " It is usual for scholars to lament , with indiscri ...
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... Quintilian from among the Romans , and Addison from the English , as their principal assistants . " The first who came forward with his offering , by the loftiness of his demeanour , was soon disco- vered to be Homer . He approached the ...
... Quintilian from among the Romans , and Addison from the English , as their principal assistants . " The first who came forward with his offering , by the loftiness of his demeanour , was soon disco- vered to be Homer . He approached the ...
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absurd acquainted admiration ADVENTURER Agrestis Amana Amelia Anticlea appear Aristotle bagnio Bagshot beauty behold believe Boileau caliph captain character coach conceal conduct consider contempt countenance daugh death Demosthenes desire dignity discovered distress dreadful effect elegance equally Eugenio Euripides Eutyches excellence eyes falsehood father favour felicity folly fortune Freeman genius gratified guilt hand happiness heart Homer honour hope human husband Iliad images imagination immediately kind labour Lady Forrest learned Longinus looked mankind Mantua ment mind misery morning nature ness never Nouraddin object Odyssey opinion Osmin passion perceived perhaps person Pindar pleasure poem poet Pope present produced prosopopoeia punished Quintilian racter reason received SATURDAY says scarce sentiment servant Sir James soon Sophocles soul specta spirit stockjobber suffered tain tears tenderness Theocritus thou thought Tibullus tion truth TUESDAY ulmo Ulysses vanity Ventosus vice virtue wife wish wretched writers
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Página 126 - ... with some other prey. But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every man amuses himself with projects which he knows to be improbable, and which, therefore, he resolves to pursue without daring to examine them. Whatever any man ardently desires, he very readily believes that he shall some time attain : he whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases,...