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... virtue shines ; Nor takes up pow'r , nor lays it down , As giddy rabbles smile or frown . HOR . ELPHINSTON . HE task of an author is , either to teach what THE is not known , or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them ...
... virtue shines ; Nor takes up pow'r , nor lays it down , As giddy rabbles smile or frown . HOR . ELPHINSTON . HE task of an author is , either to teach what THE is not known , or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them ...
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... virtue from an ancient writer by no means eminent for chastity of thought . The same kind , though not the same ... virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors , de ...
... virtue from an ancient writer by no means eminent for chastity of thought . The same kind , though not the same ... virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors , de ...
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... virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions . But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence , and produce ef- fects almost without the intervention of the will , care ought ...
... virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions . But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence , and produce ef- fects almost without the intervention of the will , care ought ...
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... virtue . Many writers , for the sake of following nature , so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal per ... virtues have their 24 No 4 . THE RAMBLER . The modern form of romances preferable to ancient The necessity of ...
... virtue . Many writers , for the sake of following nature , so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal per ... virtues have their 24 No 4 . THE RAMBLER . The modern form of romances preferable to ancient The necessity of ...
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... virtue ; of virtue not angelical , nor above probability , ( for what we cannot credit , we shall never imitate , ) but the highest and purest that huma- nity can reach , which , exercised in such trials as the various revolutions of ...
... virtue ; of virtue not angelical , nor above probability , ( for what we cannot credit , we shall never imitate , ) but the highest and purest that huma- nity can reach , which , exercised in such trials as the various revolutions of ...
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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.