Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 1 |
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... appreciated the value of this resource , and had a correct idea of the peculiar laws of periodical composition , as exemplified in the Spectator , is strikingly evident from the first paragraph of his preface . PERIODICAL PAPERS . 19.
... appreciated the value of this resource , and had a correct idea of the peculiar laws of periodical composition , as exemplified in the Spectator , is strikingly evident from the first paragraph of his preface . PERIODICAL PAPERS . 19.
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... correct , and the sub- ject - matter occasionally interesting . Two Essays , N ° 31 and 32 , contain an ingenious parallel be- tween poetry and painting ; they are , being Monday and Wednesday papers , the composition of Sir Richard ...
... correct , and the sub- ject - matter occasionally interesting . Two Essays , N ° 31 and 32 , contain an ingenious parallel be- tween poetry and painting ; they are , being Monday and Wednesday papers , the composition of Sir Richard ...
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... correct the prejudices and mistakes which exist in re- ligion , general politics , and literature ; and , con- sequently , a large portion of the work is of a serious and argumentative kind . The observa- tions on knowledge and learning ...
... correct the prejudices and mistakes which exist in re- ligion , general politics , and literature ; and , con- sequently , a large portion of the work is of a serious and argumentative kind . The observa- tions on knowledge and learning ...
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... correct ; but nothing can justify the base desertion of his employers , who ascended to power through the medium of his exertions . The Terra Filius is a sharp and too frequently a virulent satire on the statutes , the manners , and the ...
... correct ; but nothing can justify the base desertion of his employers , who ascended to power through the medium of his exertions . The Terra Filius is a sharp and too frequently a virulent satire on the statutes , the manners , and the ...
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... correct , or vex the town . " Beside letters and the first number , Dr. Swift contributed N ° 3 , a defence of the Beggar's Opera of Gay , and N ° 19 , dated De- cember 2d , 1728 , on the grievances of Ireland . The Intelligencer was ...
... correct , or vex the town . " Beside letters and the first number , Dr. Swift contributed N ° 3 , a defence of the Beggar's Opera of Gay , and N ° 19 , dated De- cember 2d , 1728 , on the grievances of Ireland . The Intelligencer was ...
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Page 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Page 134 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Page 398 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Page 301 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Page 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
Page 301 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 193 - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Page 330 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
Page 248 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.