Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, 2. ciltT. Davies, 1774 - 375 sayfa |
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... Ignorance , what they might claim by their Sagacity . To illuftrate this Remark , by the Mention of ob- fcure Names , would not much confirm it ; and to vilify for this Purpofe the Memory of Men truly great , great , would be to deny ...
... Ignorance , what they might claim by their Sagacity . To illuftrate this Remark , by the Mention of ob- fcure Names , would not much confirm it ; and to vilify for this Purpofe the Memory of Men truly great , great , would be to deny ...
Sayfa 13
... Ignorance have given Way in the Dawn of Science , and how Learning has languished and decayed , for Want of Patronage and Regard , or been overborne by the Prevalence of fashionable Ignorance , or lost amidst the Tumults of Invafion ...
... Ignorance have given Way in the Dawn of Science , and how Learning has languished and decayed , for Want of Patronage and Regard , or been overborne by the Prevalence of fashionable Ignorance , or lost amidst the Tumults of Invafion ...
Sayfa 21
... Ignorance prefcribes it , the fame Power to deftroy . I have computed , at fome Hours of Leifure , the Lofs and Gain of Literature , and fet the Pain which it produces against the Pleasure . Such Calculations are indeed at a great ...
... Ignorance prefcribes it , the fame Power to deftroy . I have computed , at fome Hours of Leifure , the Lofs and Gain of Literature , and fet the Pain which it produces against the Pleasure . Such Calculations are indeed at a great ...
Sayfa 22
... Ignorance ; but muft want all that gives Pleasure or Security , all the Embellishments and De- lights , and most of the Conveniencies and Comforts of our present Condition . Literature is a Kind of intellectual Light , which , like the ...
... Ignorance ; but muft want all that gives Pleasure or Security , all the Embellishments and De- lights , and most of the Conveniencies and Comforts of our present Condition . Literature is a Kind of intellectual Light , which , like the ...
Sayfa 30
... Ignorance , that of all the Candi- dates for literary Praife , the unhappy Lexicographer holds the lowest Place , neither Vanity nor Interest incited me to enquire . It appeared that the Pro- vince allotted me was , of all the Regions ...
... Ignorance , that of all the Candi- dates for literary Praife , the unhappy Lexicographer holds the lowest Place , neither Vanity nor Interest incited me to enquire . It appeared that the Pro- vince allotted me was , of all the Regions ...
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Sayfa 136 - Shakespeare's text; of whom one ridicules his errors with airy petulance, suitable enough to the levity of the controversy; the other attacks them with gloomy malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for more; the other bites like a viper, and would be glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.
Sayfa 322 - Enquirer, cease, petitions yet remain, Which heav'n may hear, nor deem religion vain. Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to heav'n the measure and the choice, Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r.
Sayfa 203 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Sayfa 120 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses ; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Sayfa 237 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Sayfa 301 - But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Sayfa 127 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion. I am indeed far from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection; when they were such as would satisfy the audience, they satisfied the writer. It is...
Sayfa 107 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Sayfa 293 - And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Sayfa 317 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...