Letters on Several Subjects, Band 2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 |
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... merit . Perfons of rank , who fee him nearer , say , that his manners are obliging ; his understanding , folid ; his tafte , good ; and that he is poffeffed of very extenfive knowledge . To all this they add but one fhade ; they fay he ...
... merit . Perfons of rank , who fee him nearer , say , that his manners are obliging ; his understanding , folid ; his tafte , good ; and that he is poffeffed of very extenfive knowledge . To all this they add but one fhade ; they fay he ...
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... merit in men ; of making them fee that a state of love is the only happy ftate this fide the grave ; that that love alone is fure and lafting which is fixed upon esteem ; that efteem comes only from virtue ; and that virtue in ...
... merit in men ; of making them fee that a state of love is the only happy ftate this fide the grave ; that that love alone is fure and lafting which is fixed upon esteem ; that efteem comes only from virtue ; and that virtue in ...
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... ; and confequently neither entitle him to cenfure or praise . He took , for exam- ple , Plutarch's Life of Brutus , and threw it into dialogue . If this fable be good , good , the merit is Plutarch's ; if it is [ 34 ]
... ; and confequently neither entitle him to cenfure or praise . He took , for exam- ple , Plutarch's Life of Brutus , and threw it into dialogue . If this fable be good , good , the merit is Plutarch's ; if it is [ 34 ]
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Martin Sherlock. good , the merit is Plutarch's ; if it is bad , the faults cannot be Shakspeare's . But if he never formed a plan for a play , he always did for a fcene ; and fome of his fcenes are indifputably the best planned , as ...
Martin Sherlock. good , the merit is Plutarch's ; if it is bad , the faults cannot be Shakspeare's . But if he never formed a plan for a play , he always did for a fcene ; and fome of his fcenes are indifputably the best planned , as ...
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... certainly must be allowed to be a very great one . This it is that confti- tutes the grand merit of Racine , who is their ftandard of perfecton . You may eafily imagine I their [ 36 ] prove evidently his capacity to create ...
... certainly must be allowed to be a very great one . This it is that confti- tutes the grand merit of Racine , who is their ftandard of perfecton . You may eafily imagine I their [ 36 ] prove evidently his capacity to create ...
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Seite 84 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Seite 190 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 42 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Seite 148 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Seite 40 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Seite 147 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Seite 51 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Seite 197 - Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
Seite 194 - ... them in ; or to place them in an attitude, in which they have not been already placed. But talking of a nation, if one did not say something about so considerable a part of it, the subject must appear mutilated and imperfect. As brevity is the soul of wit...
Seite 176 - I'll do them juftice. Let every man who knows that nation fpeak of it as he found it; if he lived in their intimacy for years (as I did), and if he found them ill-natured, ill-mannered, treacherous, and cowardly, let him fpeak his mind. I quarrel with no man who judges for himfelf, and who fpsaks the truth.