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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... IN THREE VOLUMES . THE FOURTH EDITIO N. VOLUME THE FIRST . LONDON , PRINTED BY W. BOWYER AND J. NICHOLS , FOR T. CADELL , SUCCESSor to Mr. MILLAR , IN THE STRAND . MDCCLXXI . Hurd NAM Huvialat . 6. Peaty " f 7. Mr. 23 LE MORAL AND ...
... IN THREE VOLUMES . THE FOURTH EDITIO N. VOLUME THE FIRST . LONDON , PRINTED BY W. BOWYER AND J. NICHOLS , FOR T. CADELL , SUCCESSor to Mr. MILLAR , IN THE STRAND . MDCCLXXI . Hurd NAM Huvialat . 6. Peaty " f 7. Mr. 23 LE MORAL AND ...
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... moral dif courses . But , befides that the Athenian's modeft IRONY was of another tafte , and better fuited to the decorum of converfation , than the Syrian's frontlefs buffoonery , there was this further difference in the two cafes ...
... moral dif courses . But , befides that the Athenian's modeft IRONY was of another tafte , and better fuited to the decorum of converfation , than the Syrian's frontlefs buffoonery , there was this further difference in the two cafes ...
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... by more fuccefsful writers . For to conceive an excellence , and to copy it , he understands and laments , are very different things . THURCASTON : MDCCLXIV . MORAL MORA L AND POLITICAL DIALOGUE S. DIA DIALOGUE I. On lxvi PREFACE .
... by more fuccefsful writers . For to conceive an excellence , and to copy it , he understands and laments , are very different things . THURCASTON : MDCCLXIV . MORAL MORA L AND POLITICAL DIALOGUE S. DIA DIALOGUE I. On lxvi PREFACE .
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... moral masters have you picked up this term , and much more , the virtuous practice , it fo well expreffes ? MR . WALLER . I LEARNT it from the great master of life , EXPERIENCE : A doctor , little heard of in the schools , but of more ...
... moral masters have you picked up this term , and much more , the virtuous practice , it fo well expreffes ? MR . WALLER . I LEARNT it from the great master of life , EXPERIENCE : A doctor , little heard of in the schools , but of more ...
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... moral fyftems ! -Yet , if it were only for the pleasure of being let into the fecrets of this new doctrine of Accommodation , I am content to become a patient hearer , in my turn ; and the rather , as the day , which , you fee , wears ...
... moral fyftems ! -Yet , if it were only for the pleasure of being let into the fecrets of this new doctrine of Accommodation , I am content to become a patient hearer , in my turn ; and the rather , as the day , which , you fee , wears ...
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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
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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...