Letters on Several Subjects, Volumen2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 |
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... civilities you fhewed me at Paris . You hate England , but you love the English : I love France as little as you do England ; but I affure you I moft fincerely fincerely esteem a number of your coun- trymen , and [ 9 ]
... civilities you fhewed me at Paris . You hate England , but you love the English : I love France as little as you do England ; but I affure you I moft fincerely fincerely esteem a number of your coun- trymen , and [ 9 ]
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... English women are univerfally allowed to be the most vir- tuous in Europe . One of the chief traits . which diftinguishes them is fenfibility ; and fenfibility is the immediate , parent of all that is tender , foft , and gentle . Hence ...
... English women are univerfally allowed to be the most vir- tuous in Europe . One of the chief traits . which diftinguishes them is fenfibility ; and fenfibility is the immediate , parent of all that is tender , foft , and gentle . Hence ...
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... English do not know how to make a book . " Wherever Voltaire found a ftriking thought , no matter whether true or falfe , he always confidered it as legal plunder , and never failed to appropriate it to himself . He has repeated this ...
... English do not know how to make a book . " Wherever Voltaire found a ftriking thought , no matter whether true or falfe , he always confidered it as legal plunder , and never failed to appropriate it to himself . He has repeated this ...
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... English made hundreds of books ? Thefe writers mean , the Eng- lish do not make the plan of a book in their heads before they begin to write it . I am not fure that all my readers will understand me . I must explain myself by an example ...
... English made hundreds of books ? Thefe writers mean , the Eng- lish do not make the plan of a book in their heads before they begin to write it . I am not fure that all my readers will understand me . I must explain myself by an example ...
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... English nation has no taste , I do not fay that there are not individuals in England who have great tafte . I al ways fupported the contrary ; and never more ftrongly than when I was in France . I faid the French nation had more taste ...
... English nation has no taste , I do not fay that there are not individuals in England who have great tafte . I al ways fupported the contrary ; and never more ftrongly than when I was in France . I faid the French nation had more taste ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.