Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Band 21812 |
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... expression of gratitude to him for all his goodness . Consider it as the service of the God of your fathers ; of him to whom your parents devoted you ; of him whom in former ages your ancestors honoured ; and by whom they are now ...
... expression of gratitude to him for all his goodness . Consider it as the service of the God of your fathers ; of him to whom your parents devoted you ; of him whom in former ages your ancestors honoured ; and by whom they are now ...
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... expressions and trite sayings are the flowers of the rhetoric of a vulgar man . Would he say that men differ in their tastes ; he both supports and adorns that opinion , by the good old saying as he respectfully calls it , that ' what ...
... expressions and trite sayings are the flowers of the rhetoric of a vulgar man . Would he say that men differ in their tastes ; he both supports and adorns that opinion , by the good old saying as he respectfully calls it , that ' what ...
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... expressions , awkward motions and address , vilify , as they imply either a very low turn of mind , or low education , and low company . Frivolous curiosity about trifles , and a laborious attention to little objects , which neither ...
... expressions , awkward motions and address , vilify , as they imply either a very low turn of mind , or low education , and low company . Frivolous curiosity about trifles , and a laborious attention to little objects , which neither ...
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... expressions are not true in the sense in which we believe the hearer to apprehend them : besides , that it is absurd to contend for any sense of words in opposition to usage ; for all senses of words are founded upon usage , and upon ...
... expressions are not true in the sense in which we believe the hearer to apprehend them : besides , that it is absurd to contend for any sense of words in opposition to usage ; for all senses of words are founded upon usage , and upon ...
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... lips , and the same expression bluntly bolted out from the broad mouth of a por- ter or hackney - coachman . I shall purposely wave making any reflections on the impiety BOOK III . 61 PRECEPTIVE . On the practice of swearing Johnson.
... lips , and the same expression bluntly bolted out from the broad mouth of a por- ter or hackney - coachman . I shall purposely wave making any reflections on the impiety BOOK III . 61 PRECEPTIVE . On the practice of swearing Johnson.
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Seite 112 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Seite 245 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Seite 245 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
Seite 243 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Seite 112 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
Seite 112 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Seite 112 - Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one, must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men,...
Seite 111 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Seite 252 - You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
Seite 111 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.