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... knowledge to illustrate by my la- bours . Choice is more often determined by accident than by reason : I walked abroad one morning with a curious Lady , and by her enquiries and observations was incited to write the natural history of ...
... knowledge to illustrate by my la- bours . Choice is more often determined by accident than by reason : I walked abroad one morning with a curious Lady , and by her enquiries and observations was incited to write the natural history of ...
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... knowledge and industry find their recompence , thus neglected by the high and cheated by the low . I sometimes resolve to print my book at my own ex- pence , and , like the Sibyl , double the price ; and sometimes am tempted , in ...
... knowledge and industry find their recompence , thus neglected by the high and cheated by the low . I sometimes resolve to print my book at my own ex- pence , and , like the Sibyl , double the price ; and sometimes am tempted , in ...
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... - guage , by successive improvements , to as much har- mony as it can easily receive , and as much copiousness as human knowledge has hitherto required . These VOL . II . E " advances have not been made at all times with THE IDLER . 37.
... - guage , by successive improvements , to as much har- mony as it can easily receive , and as much copiousness as human knowledge has hitherto required . These VOL . II . E " advances have not been made at all times with THE IDLER . 37.
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... knowledge is endless , and that many doubts deserve not to be cleared . Let those whom nature and study have qualified to teach mankind , tell us what they have learned while they are yet able to tell it , and trust their reputation ...
... knowledge is endless , and that many doubts deserve not to be cleared . Let those whom nature and study have qualified to teach mankind , tell us what they have learned while they are yet able to tell it , and trust their reputation ...
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... knowledge , from their being resolutely positive ; and women of real under- standing so far from pleasing the polite million , that they frightened them away , and were left solitary . When we quitted this entertaining scene , Tom press ...
... knowledge , from their being resolutely positive ; and women of real under- standing so far from pleasing the polite million , that they frightened them away , and were left solitary . When we quitted this entertaining scene , Tom press ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admired amusement authors Bassora beauty Carlo Maratti censure character coach common commonly considered couplet criticism curiosity delight desire Dick diligence easily easy poetry elegance eminent endeavour English enquire Epictetus epitaph equally evil expected expence faults fortune friends genius happiness honour hope hour Hudibras Idler Iliad imagination inscription Italian king of Norway knowledge labour lady language Lapland learned less lines live mankind marriage memory ment mind nation nature neglected neral never numbers observed OCTOBER 20 once opinion Ortogrul painter painting panegyric pass passions perhaps pleasure poets praise produce rapture readers reason resolved retired rich SATURDAY seldom seldom disappointed sense shew sometimes Sophron SPRITELY suffered Sugar-baker supposed tell thagoras ther thing thought tion told tomb Trifle truth Venetian school verse virtue weary Westminster Abbey wish wonder words write
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Seite 184 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Seite 82 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.
Seite 98 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Seite 183 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear ; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Seite 89 - It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed ; but it must be considered, that, if the excellency of a painter consisted only in this kind of imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best...
Seite 186 - On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her Breast. ' Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense ; No conquest she, but o'er herself desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that Virtue only is our own.
Seite 187 - Pensive hast follow'd to the silent tomb, Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore, Not parted long, and now to part no more ! Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
Seite 106 - NOVEMBER 24, 1759. .BIOGRAPHY is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life.
Seite 191 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...
Seite 92 - That every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced, and almost universally confessed; but let us not attend only to mournful truths; if we look impartially about us, we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures and its joys.