The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Beauty produced by moral Sentiment . Hawkesworth . Warton . 83. Observations on the Odyssey concluded . 84. Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85. Study , Composition , and Converse equally ...
... Beauty produced by moral Sentiment . Hawkesworth . Warton . 83. Observations on the Odyssey concluded . 84. Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85. Study , Composition , and Converse equally ...
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... beauty . Though the maxims of the Duke de la Roche- foucault , another fashionable philosopher , are writ- ten with expressive elegance , and with nervous bre- vity ; yet I must be pardoned for affirming , that he who labours to lessen ...
... beauty . Though the maxims of the Duke de la Roche- foucault , another fashionable philosopher , are writ- ten with expressive elegance , and with nervous bre- vity ; yet I must be pardoned for affirming , that he who labours to lessen ...
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... beauty or blemish be minutely pointed out in its different degree and kind , but also that the reason and foundation of excellencies and faults be accu- rately ascertained . Bossu is usually and justly placed at the head of the ...
... beauty or blemish be minutely pointed out in its different degree and kind , but also that the reason and foundation of excellencies and faults be accu- rately ascertained . Bossu is usually and justly placed at the head of the ...
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... beauty and boldness of the Prosopopœias , and the rich variety of comparisons with which every page of these extraordinary writings abounds . When I shall have pointed out a few of these to your view , I shall think your curiosity will ...
... beauty and boldness of the Prosopopœias , and the rich variety of comparisons with which every page of these extraordinary writings abounds . When I shall have pointed out a few of these to your view , I shall think your curiosity will ...
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... beauty of the piece . " The pleasures of friendship and benevolence are compared to the perfumes that flow from the oint- ments usually poured on the priest's head , which run down to his beard and even to the skirts of his clothing ...
... beauty of the piece . " The pleasures of friendship and benevolence are compared to the perfumes that flow from the oint- ments usually poured on the priest's head , which run down to his beard and even to the skirts of his clothing ...
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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,...