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... called forth against it . Censure is willingly indulged , because it always implies some superiority ; men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search , or wider survey , than others , and detected faults and ...
... called forth against it . Censure is willingly indulged , because it always implies some superiority ; men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search , or wider survey , than others , and detected faults and ...
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... called poetry . In like manner almost all the fictions of the last age will vanish , if you deprive them of a hermit and a wood , a battle and a shipwreck . Why Why this wild strain of imagination found reception so long 20 No 4 . THE ...
... called poetry . In like manner almost all the fictions of the last age will vanish , if you deprive them of a hermit and a wood , a battle and a shipwreck . Why Why this wild strain of imagination found reception so long 20 No 4 . THE ...
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... called know- ledge of the world , will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good . The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind , but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with less hazard ; to ...
... called know- ledge of the world , will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good . The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind , but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with less hazard ; to ...
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... called , will be- tray him to crimes , which in his original scheme were never proposed . He therefore that would govern his actions by the laws of virtue , must regulate his thoughts by those of reason ; he must keep guilt from the ...
... called , will be- tray him to crimes , which in his original scheme were never proposed . He therefore that would govern his actions by the laws of virtue , must regulate his thoughts by those of reason ; he must keep guilt from the ...
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... called up , and found Mr. Courtly and his lady at piquet in the height of good humour . This I looked on as a favourable sign , and stood at the lower end of the room , in expectation of the common questions . At last Mr. Courtly called ...
... called up , and found Mr. Courtly and his lady at piquet in the height of good humour . This I looked on as a favourable sign , and stood at the lower end of the room , in expectation of the common questions . At last Mr. Courtly called ...
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Page 267 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Page 431 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Page 415 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered . through the wild without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Page 416 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Page 20 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Page 381 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Page 57 - Yet by some such fortuitous tuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature,...
Page 386 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Page 21 - Why this wild strain of imagination found reception so long in polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that 'while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it...
Page 26 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.