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... truths , may hope to be often read , because his work will be equally useful at all times and in every .country ... truth . The hypocrisy which it detected , and the folly which it ridiculed , have long vanished from public no- tice ...
... truths , may hope to be often read , because his work will be equally useful at all times and in every .country ... truth . The hypocrisy which it detected , and the folly which it ridiculed , have long vanished from public no- tice ...
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... truth . But experience is the test by which all the philoso- phers of the present age agree , that speculation must be tried ; and I may be therefore allowed to doubt the power of money , since I have been a long time rich , and have ...
... truth . But experience is the test by which all the philoso- phers of the present age agree , that speculation must be tried ; and I may be therefore allowed to doubt the power of money , since I have been a long time rich , and have ...
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... truth as we detect more and more varieties of error . When I had sold my racers , and put the orders of architecture out of my head , my next resolution was to be a fine gentleman . I frequented the polite coffee- houses , grew ...
... truth as we detect more and more varieties of error . When I had sold my racers , and put the orders of architecture out of my head , my next resolution was to be a fine gentleman . I frequented the polite coffee- houses , grew ...
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... truth ; many doubtful facts may now be ascertain- ed , and many questions , after long debate , may be determined by decisive authority . He that records transactions in which himself was engaged , has not only an opportunity of knowing ...
... truth ; many doubtful facts may now be ascertain- ed , and many questions , after long debate , may be determined by decisive authority . He that records transactions in which himself was engaged , has not only an opportunity of knowing ...
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... truth , will write that which his own times * It would be proper to reposite , in some public place , the manuscript of Clarendon , which has not escaped all suspicion of unfaithful publication . will not easily endure . He must be ...
... truth , will write that which his own times * It would be proper to reposite , in some public place , the manuscript of Clarendon , which has not escaped all suspicion of unfaithful publication . will not easily endure . He must be ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
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.