Preface on the manner of writing dialogue. Dialogue 1. On sincerity in the commerce of the world betwen Dr. More and Mr. Waller. Dialogue 2. On retirement between Mr. Cowley and Dr. Sprat. Dialogue 3. On the age of Q. Elizabeth between Mr. Digby, Dr. Arbuthnot and Mr. AddisonT. Cadell, 1771 |
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... force of his comic humour ; and concludes at length , that he had nothing left for it but to perfevere in the choice he had once made ; that is , to preferve the cre- dit of his own confiftency at least , if he could not prevail to have ...
... force of his comic humour ; and concludes at length , that he had nothing left for it but to perfevere in the choice he had once made ; that is , to preferve the cre- dit of his own confiftency at least , if he could not prevail to have ...
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... force lay ; while his Philosophy ferves only to edge his wit , or fimply to introduce it . They have , ufually , for their fub- ject , not , a QUESTION DEBATED ; but , a TENET RIDICULED , or , a CHARACTER EXPOSED . In this view , they ...
... force lay ; while his Philosophy ferves only to edge his wit , or fimply to introduce it . They have , ufually , for their fub- ject , not , a QUESTION DEBATED ; but , a TENET RIDICULED , or , a CHARACTER EXPOSED . In this view , they ...
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... force , or engage the army in the fupport and execution of my purpose . But my de- fign in this affair , though the fury of my enemies and the fatal jealoufy of the time would not fuffer it to be rightly understood , is not that which ...
... force , or engage the army in the fupport and execution of my purpose . But my de- fign in this affair , though the fury of my enemies and the fatal jealoufy of the time would not fuffer it to be rightly understood , is not that which ...
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... force me out of this shelter . NOTHING is eafier , faid I , than for you men of wit to throw a ridicule upon any thing . It is but applying a quaint figure , or a well - turned fentence , and the 1 the business is done . But indeed , my ...
... force me out of this shelter . NOTHING is eafier , faid I , than for you men of wit to throw a ridicule upon any thing . It is but applying a quaint figure , or a well - turned fentence , and the 1 the business is done . But indeed , my ...
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... force . But look upon this scene before you , and tell me what inducements I can poffibly have to quit it for any thing you can promife me in ex- change ? Is there in that vaft labyrinth , you call the world , where fo many thousands ...
... force . But look upon this scene before you , and tell me what inducements I can poffibly have to quit it for any thing you can promife me in ex- change ? Is there in that vaft labyrinth , you call the world , where fo many thousands ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
againſt amuſements antient becauſe befides beft BEN JOHNSON beſt bufinefs buſineſs cafe caft cauſe character CICERO compofition confequence confideration converfation courſe court COWLEY COWLEY'S deferve defign Dialogue difpofed eafily eſpecially expreffion exprefs faid fame fcene feem felf fenfe ferious ferve fervice fhade fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firſt fituation fociety fome fomething fpeak fpirit ftill ftrange ftudied fubject fuch fuffered fuppofe fure genius hath higheſt himſelf honour houſe humour inftance intereft itſelf juft laft leaft leaſt lefs logue Lord Lord CLARENDON manner matter ment mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf natural obferve occafion paffed paſs perfons philofophic pleaſe pleaſure poets prefent prefume purpoſe purſue racters reaſon reſpect retirement rience ſaid ſay ſcene ſchool ſhall ſpeak ſpeakers ſtill ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought truth underſtand uſe virtue WALLER whofe wiſdom wiſh writer yourſelf
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 119 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 92 - Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book...
Seite 190 - I'll have Italian masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows; And in the day when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay.
Seite 137 - Kings have long hands (they say) and though I be So distant, they may reach at length to me. However, of all Princes, thou...
Seite 194 - But we shall hardly mistake in supposing it lies somewhere between the rude essays of uncorrected fancy, on the one hand, and the refinements of reason and science, on the other. AND such appears to have been the condition of our language in the age of ELIZABETH.
Seite 134 - Leah left, thy recompence to be ! Go on: twice seven years more thy fortune try; Twice seven years more God in his bounty may Give thee, to fling away Into the court's deceitful lottery: But think how likely 'tis that thou, With the dull work of thy unwieldy plough...
Seite 135 - Ah ! wanton foe, dost thou upbraid The ills which thou thyself hast made ? When in the cradle innocent I lay, Thou, wicked spirit, stolest me away, And my abused soul didst bear Into thy new-found worlds, I know not where...
Seite 131 - And gather hulks of learning up at laft, Now the rich harveft-time of life is paft, , And winter marches on fo faft ? But, when I meant t...
Seite 130 - A wondrous hieroglyphick robe she wore, In which all colours and all figures were, That nature or that fancy can create, That art can never imitate; And with loose pride it wanton'd in the air. In such a dress, in such a well-cloth'd dream, She us'd, of old, near fair Ismenus' stream, Pindar, her Theban favourite, to meet ; A crown was on her head, and wings were on her feet.
Seite 136 - The heaven under which I live is fair, The fertile soil will a full harvest bear : Thine, thine is all the barrenness ; if thou...