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, Volum 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 sider |
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Side xi
... beauty or force , as they imagined , to their difcourie , by fubftituting certain ftudied mufical tones , in the room of the genuine expreffions of fentiment , which the voice carries in natural difcourfe . Let every * All rhat paffes ...
... beauty or force , as they imagined , to their difcourie , by fubftituting certain ftudied mufical tones , in the room of the genuine expreffions of fentiment , which the voice carries in natural difcourfe . Let every * All rhat paffes ...
Side xx
... Beauty of Epiftolary Writing 123 Careletfnefs in it to be avoided 449 450 59 60 - Martial Juvenal 415 124 On Pliny's Letters 449 - 416 - 61 the Introduction , & c . of Arts at Rome . 62 The Condition of the Romans in the fecond Punic ...
... Beauty of Epiftolary Writing 123 Careletfnefs in it to be avoided 449 450 59 60 - Martial Juvenal 415 124 On Pliny's Letters 449 - 416 - 61 the Introduction , & c . of Arts at Rome . 62 The Condition of the Romans in the fecond Punic ...
Side xxi
... Beauty 214 Superior Literature and Knowledge of the Greek and Latin Clergy 215 Opinions on past and prefent Ages 216 Character of the Man of Bufinefs 499 500 500 502 505 508 166 The beft Authors to be often read 16 Rife of Philofophical ...
... Beauty 214 Superior Literature and Knowledge of the Greek and Latin Clergy 215 Opinions on past and prefent Ages 216 Character of the Man of Bufinefs 499 500 500 502 505 508 166 The beft Authors to be often read 16 Rife of Philofophical ...
Side xxiii
... Beauty in Writing Brown . 894 84385 confpicuous in the Scriptures 86 preferable to Refinement in writing 845 87 Suicide , Effay on 845 88 Enumeration of Superftitions obferved in the Country 848 89 Swearing , indelicate and wicked 850 ...
... Beauty in Writing Brown . 894 84385 confpicuous in the Scriptures 86 preferable to Refinement in writing 845 87 Suicide , Effay on 845 88 Enumeration of Superftitions obferved in the Country 848 89 Swearing , indelicate and wicked 850 ...
Side xxiv
... Beauty 111 —— a valuable Virtue in a Man 112 Characters of Gamefters 113 Tatler's Advice to his Sifter 114 On Curiofity - 115 Controverfy feldom decently ducted - 116 Converfation , how to pleafe in 117 various Faults in - con- Critic ...
... Beauty 111 —— a valuable Virtue in a Man 112 Characters of Gamefters 113 Tatler's Advice to his Sifter 114 On Curiofity - 115 Controverfy feldom decently ducted - 116 Converfation , how to pleafe in 117 various Faults in - con- Critic ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...