Letters on Several Subjects, Volumen2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 |
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... knowledge . To all this they add but one fhade ; they fay he is obftinate . Obftinacy , in the language of courtiers , you know , is fteadiness . Where one ends , and the other begins , is not perhaps fo eafy to determine . The excefs ...
... knowledge . To all this they add but one fhade ; they fay he is obftinate . Obftinacy , in the language of courtiers , you know , is fteadiness . Where one ends , and the other begins , is not perhaps fo eafy to determine . The excefs ...
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... knowledge of human nature to a moft minute acquaintance with the rules of his art ; and who , though he entertains his reader better than any other comic writer , gives him ftill more information than amusement . Thefe three authors ...
... knowledge of human nature to a moft minute acquaintance with the rules of his art ; and who , though he entertains his reader better than any other comic writer , gives him ftill more information than amusement . Thefe three authors ...
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... knowledge . Without knowledge no comparifons can be formed without comparisons the judge- ment cannot be chaftened ; without judgement there can be no fure taste . I fhall explain myfelf by an example , which I fhall take from sculpture ...
... knowledge . Without knowledge no comparifons can be formed without comparisons the judge- ment cannot be chaftened ; without judgement there can be no fure taste . I fhall explain myfelf by an example , which I fhall take from sculpture ...
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... one to a young man ; and another very capital one to another young man ; let them be the firft ftatues that either of them have feen ; and their judgements upon the two will have [ 70 ] ment, and this knowledge is to be ac- ...
... one to a young man ; and another very capital one to another young man ; let them be the firft ftatues that either of them have feen ; and their judgements upon the two will have [ 70 ] ment, and this knowledge is to be ac- ...
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... knowledge that he has obtained will form his judgement ; his judgement will then direct his feel- ings ; and that man will acquire a fure and perfect tafte . This reafoning appears to me to be juft , when applied to poetry , painting ...
... knowledge that he has obtained will form his judgement ; his judgement will then direct his feel- ings ; and that man will acquire a fure and perfect tafte . This reafoning appears to me to be juft , when applied to poetry , painting ...
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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.