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... soon made signally con- spicuous , by his triumphant answer to MASON's elegy of Isis , ' a severe satire upon the dis- loyalty of Oxford . He undertook his reply at the special request of Dr. HUDDESFORD , the president of his college ...
... soon made signally con- spicuous , by his triumphant answer to MASON's elegy of Isis , ' a severe satire upon the dis- loyalty of Oxford . He undertook his reply at the special request of Dr. HUDDESFORD , the president of his college ...
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... soon of itself . The open competitions between different hospitals , and the animosity with which their patrons oppose one another , may prejudice weak minds against them all . For it will not be easily believed , that any man can , for ...
... soon of itself . The open competitions between different hospitals , and the animosity with which their patrons oppose one another , may prejudice weak minds against them all . For it will not be easily believed , that any man can , for ...
Side 16
... and the drums ordered to beat for female volunteers , our re- giments would soon be filled without the reproach or cruelty of an impress . Of these heroines some might serve on foot , under 16 N ° 5 . IDLER . Drugget's retirement.
... and the drums ordered to beat for female volunteers , our re- giments would soon be filled without the reproach or cruelty of an impress . Of these heroines some might serve on foot , under 16 N ° 5 . IDLER . Drugget's retirement.
Side 19
... soon obscured if they are intrusted to tradition , I think it necessary that the pedestal should be inscribed with a concise account of this great performance . The composi- tion of NO 6 . 19 IDLER . Whirler's character.
... soon obscured if they are intrusted to tradition , I think it necessary that the pedestal should be inscribed with a concise account of this great performance . The composi- tion of NO 6 . 19 IDLER . Whirler's character.
Side 21
... soon left without an audience . The common talk of men must relate to facts in which the talkers have , or think they have , an interest ; and where such facts cannot be known , the pleasures of society will be merely sensual . Thus the ...
... soon left without an audience . The common talk of men must relate to facts in which the talkers have , or think they have , an interest ; and where such facts cannot be known , the pleasures of society will be merely sensual . Thus the ...
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admired amusement appear art of memory authors Bassora beauty censure common commonly considered critic curiosity danger delight desire diligence dreaded Drugget easily easy elegance endeavour enemies English equal evil expected eyes favour fortune friends genius give gout hand happiness honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler Iliad imagination innu inquiry JOSEPH WARTON knowledge labour lady Lapland learned lence less live look Louisbourg mankind marriage memory ment mind Minorca misery morning nation nature necessary neral ness never Newmarket night observed once opinion pain passed passions perhaps Peterhouse pleased pleasure poetry praise produce quired racters readers reason resolved ressentie rich SATURDAY seldom shew sometimes soon Sophron suffered suppose sure talk tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought tion told truth uncon virtue vulture weary wife wish wonder write XXXIII
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Side 258 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Side 268 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Side 254 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Side 254 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 327 - Young man," said Omar," it is of little use to form plans of life. When I took my first survey of the world, in my twentieth year, having considered the various conditions of mankind, in the hour of solitude I said thus to myself, leaning against a cedar, which spread its branches over my head : " Seventy years are allowed to man ; I have yet fifty remaining.
Side 328 - The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in search of knowledge; and I know not how I was diverted from my design. I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passions within.
Side ii - Many of these excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter. Mr. Langton remembers Johnson, when on a visit at Oxford', asking him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour, he exclaimed,
Side 251 - ... middle to have been on higher ground, or the figures at the extremities stooping or lying, which would not only have formed the group into the shape of a pyramid, but likewise contrasted the standing figures. Indeed...
Side 55 - To be idle and to be poor, have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours, with his utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Side 269 - I answer, that, in consequence of having seen many, the power is acquired, even without seeking after it, of distinguishing between accidental blemishes and excrescences which are continually varying the surface of Nature's works, and the invariable general form which Nature most frequently produces, and always seems to intend in her productions.