The British Essayists: The Looker-onJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... quoted in aid of the charge ; but the sagacity and local knowledge of Mr. Wood divert the accusation , and turn it into an argument for ascertaining the spot of Homer's nativity and residence , by reminding us , that when the poet de ...
... quoted in aid of the charge ; but the sagacity and local knowledge of Mr. Wood divert the accusation , and turn it into an argument for ascertaining the spot of Homer's nativity and residence , by reminding us , that when the poet de ...
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... quoted from his preface . agreed therefore that an opening is still left between literal prose and fettered rhyme ; I should conceive it might be a pleasant exercise for men of talents to try a few specimens from such passages in the ...
... quoted from his preface . agreed therefore that an opening is still left between literal prose and fettered rhyme ; I should conceive it might be a pleasant exercise for men of talents to try a few specimens from such passages in the ...
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... quoted by Euripides ; and the seventh and last , is that Musæus , whom the poet Martial mentions for having written Pathicis- simos libellos , and the author as it is probable of the little poem upon Hero and Leander , now extant ...
... quoted by Euripides ; and the seventh and last , is that Musæus , whom the poet Martial mentions for having written Pathicis- simos libellos , and the author as it is probable of the little poem upon Hero and Leander , now extant ...
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... quoted Thespis , as the first tragic writer , when he names Epicharmus as the first comic one , who co- pied from Homer . Plutarch in his Symposia says- That when Phrynichus and Eschylus first turned the subject of tragedy to fables and ...
... quoted Thespis , as the first tragic writer , when he names Epicharmus as the first comic one , who co- pied from Homer . Plutarch in his Symposia says- That when Phrynichus and Eschylus first turned the subject of tragedy to fables and ...
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... situated remote from all pleasure and pain : A sen- timent so coincident with the fragment quoted by Plutarch from the Pentheus ascribed to Thespis , seems to warrant the remark before made , which supposes NO 126 . 43 OBSERVER .
... situated remote from all pleasure and pain : A sen- timent so coincident with the fragment quoted by Plutarch from the Pentheus ascribed to Thespis , seems to warrant the remark before made , which supposes NO 126 . 43 OBSERVER .
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Seite 20 - and the flow'ry brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit; nor sometimes forget Those other two equall'd with me in fate, So were 1 equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind
Seite 96 - multa cum libertate notabant. The comic poets, in its earliest age, Who form'd the manners of the Grecian stage, Was there a villain, who might justly claim A better right of being damn'd to fame, Rake, cut-throat, thief, whatever was his crime, They freely stigmatiz'd the wretch in rhime.
Seite 105 - the air as nimbly as a star, Turn short as doth a swallow, and be here, And there, and here, and yonder all at once; Present to any humour, all occasion, And change a visor swifter than a thought; This is the creature had the art born with him. Lucian's Parasite, which is a master-piece of character and comic writing, and Horace's dialogue between
Seite 93 - No, marriage is rather like a game at bowls: Fortune indeed makes the match, and the two nearest, and sometimes the two farthest are together; but the game depends entirely upon judgment. Cynth. Still it is a game, and consequently one of us must be a loser.
Seite 105 - poles here on earth. I muse the mystery was not made a science, It is so liberally profest. Almost All the wise world is little else in nature But parasites and sub-parasites. And yet I mean not those, that have your bare town-art, To know who's fit to feed them ; have no house, No family, no care, and therefore mould Tales for men's
Seite 185 - brood—But what is man ? Truth, virtue, valour, how do they avail him? Of this world's good the first and greatest share Is flattery's prize ; the informer takes the next, And barefaced knavery garbles what is left. I'd rather be an ass than what I am, And see these villains lord it o'er their betters.*
Seite 189 - Twere wise to let none share in the possession, But if whate'er you have is held of fortune And not of right inherent, why, my father, Why with such niggard jealousy engross What the next hour may ravish from your grasp, And cast into some worthless favourite's lap ? Snatch then the
Seite 134 - For when the mind's experience comes at length, It comes to mourn the body's loss of strength : Resign'd to ignorance all our better days, Knowledge just ripens when the man decays; One ray of light the closing eye receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves.
Seite 192 - there Tyrants rot; There sleep the Rich, the Noble, and the Wise; There Pride, Ambition, Beauty's fairest form, All dust alike, compound one common mass: Reflect on these, and in them see yourself. in short I should be happy, if any thing I have now done or may hereafter do, shall serve to mitigate
Seite 105 - But your fine elegant rascal, that can rise, And stoop almost together like an arrow, Shoot thro' the air as nimbly as a star, Turn short as doth a swallow, and be here, And there, and here, and yonder all at once; Present to any humour, all occasion,