The British Prose Writers...: Beattie's lettersJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... conversation pieces ; he delineates some characters with ma- sterly and distinguishing strokes ; he seems to be well acquainted with the human heart , and with the particular emotions that arise in it on particu- lar occasions . The ...
... conversation pieces ; he delineates some characters with ma- sterly and distinguishing strokes ; he seems to be well acquainted with the human heart , and with the particular emotions that arise in it on particu- lar occasions . The ...
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... conversation abounds in original observations , delivered with no appearance of sententious for- mality , and seeming to arise spontaneously without study or premeditation . I passed two very agree- able days with him at Glammis , and ...
... conversation abounds in original observations , delivered with no appearance of sententious for- mality , and seeming to arise spontaneously without study or premeditation . I passed two very agree- able days with him at Glammis , and ...
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... conversation of the lowest sort of our people . Whenever he attempts to step out of this sphere , he becomes absurd . This sphere is , indeeed , the only one of which he has had any experience . He has been for these forty years , a ...
... conversation of the lowest sort of our people . Whenever he attempts to step out of this sphere , he becomes absurd . This sphere is , indeeed , the only one of which he has had any experience . He has been for these forty years , a ...
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... subjects I owe to their conversation and writings , as Dr. Gregory very well * Dr. Gerard was professor of divinity in the Marischal College , Aberdeen . VOL . I. E knows . Since I am upon this subject , I BEATTIE'S LETTERS . 73.
... subjects I owe to their conversation and writings , as Dr. Gregory very well * Dr. Gerard was professor of divinity in the Marischal College , Aberdeen . VOL . I. E knows . Since I am upon this subject , I BEATTIE'S LETTERS . 73.
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... conversation , in order that I might be aware of all the possible objections that could be made to my doctrine . Every one of these , that has come to my knowledge , has been canvassed and examined to the bottom , at least , according ...
... conversation , in order that I might be aware of all the possible objections that could be made to my doctrine . Every one of these , that has come to my knowledge , has been canvassed and examined to the bottom , at least , according ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aberdeen acquainted admire Æneid agreeable amusement approve archbishop of York attention beauty believe bishop of Chester BISHOP OF WORCESTER Blacklock character Christian church of England critical death DUCHESS OF GORDON Edinburgh elegant England English entertain Essay on Truth express favourable flatter friends genius give grace happy heard heart honour hope human Hume kind Lady Mayne language late learning least letter live lord lord Monboddo lordship madam mankind manner Marischal college matter ment merit mind Minstrel Montagu moral nature never obliged occasion opinion particular perhaps person Peterhead Petrarch philosophy pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Porteus present published racter reason religion ROBERT ARBUTHNOT sceptical Scotland seems seen sentiments Shakspeare SIR WILLIAM FORBES soon style tell thing thought tion told translation verses Virgil virtue wish word write written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 44 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Seite 48 - See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
Seite 104 - Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round.
Seite 91 - It is truly an unique — the specimens formerly published did very well to laugh at ; but a whole quarto of nonsense and gibberish is too much. It is strange that a man not wholly illiterate should have lived so long in England without learning the language.
Seite 103 - Montagu should smile, New strains ere long shall animate thy frame: And her applause to me is more than fame ; For still with truth accords her taste refined. At lucre or renown let others aim, I only wish to please the gentle mind, Whom Nature's charms inspire, and love of humankind. BOOK SECOND. 1 OF chance or change, 0, let not man complain, Else shall he never, never cease to wail ; For, from th' imperial dome to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel th...
Seite 22 - I have seldom heard our countrymen complain of, and which I was never sensible of till I had spent some years in labouring to acquire that art. It is, to give a vernacular cast to the English we write.
Seite 173 - KNOWING with what kindness and condescension your Grace takes an interest in every thing that concerns me and my little family, I take the liberty to inform you, that my son James is dead ; that the last duties to him are now paid ; and that I am endeavouring to return, with the little ability that is left me, and with entire submission to the will of Providence, to the ordinary business of life. I have lost one who was always a pleasing companion ; but who, for the last five or six years, was one...
Seite 174 - He has left many things in writing, serious and humorous, scientific and miscellaneous, prose and verse, Latin and English ; but it will be a long time before I shall be able to harden my heart so far as to revise them.
Seite 35 - I am somewhat inclined to fatness, like Dr. Arbuthnot and Aristotle; and I drink brandy and water, like Mr. Boyd. I might compare myself, in relation to many other infirmities, to many other great men ; but if fortune is not...
Seite 42 - The subject was suggested by a dissertation on the old minstrels, which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley, in three volumes. I proposed to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures of one of those bards ; in which I shall have full scope for description, sentiment, satire, and even a certain species of humour and...