Letters on Several Subjects, Volume 2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 - English literature |
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... perfect writer that perhaps ever lived ; the fe cond , a moft enlightened and fevere critic ; Moliere , a man of uncommon depth and penetration , who joined an extenfive knowledge of human nature to a moft minute acquaintance with the ...
... perfect writer that perhaps ever lived ; the fe cond , a moft enlightened and fevere critic ; Moliere , a man of uncommon depth and penetration , who joined an extenfive knowledge of human nature to a moft minute acquaintance with the ...
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... , and let him finish with the Apollo Belvedere . . He will then have seen all that is moft perfect in the art . If he examines each of these ftatues E 4 ftatues feparately with attention , and afterwards compares them together [ 71 ]
... , and let him finish with the Apollo Belvedere . . He will then have seen all that is moft perfect in the art . If he examines each of these ftatues E 4 ftatues feparately with attention , and afterwards compares them together [ 71 ]
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... perfect tafte . This reafoning appears to me to be juft , when applied to poetry , painting , eloquence , and all the other arts . The English education , bad as it is , is the beft in Europe . It is effentially bad in one point ; and ...
... perfect tafte . This reafoning appears to me to be juft , when applied to poetry , painting , eloquence , and all the other arts . The English education , bad as it is , is the beft in Europe . It is effentially bad in one point ; and ...
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... perfect taste . A Frenchman has not those advan- tages . He poffeffes only two languages , and he does not travel ; and this is the true and real ( 1 ) caufe , why the few in England ( 1 ) If , from their mode of education and from ...
... perfect taste . A Frenchman has not those advan- tages . He poffeffes only two languages , and he does not travel ; and this is the true and real ( 1 ) caufe , why the few in England ( 1 ) If , from their mode of education and from ...
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Martin Sherlock. England have a greater number of tastes , and more perfect tastes , than the few in France . Greek writers , those advantages alone would be fufficient to give them a fuperiority in point of tafle over the French . LET ...
Martin Sherlock. England have a greater number of tastes , and more perfect tastes , than the few in France . Greek writers , those advantages alone would be fufficient to give them a fuperiority in point of tafle over the French . LET ...
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Page 84 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 190 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 42 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Page 148 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Page 40 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 147 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Page 51 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 197 - Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
Page 194 - ... them in ; or to place them in an attitude, in which they have not been already placed. But talking of a nation, if one did not say something about so considerable a part of it, the subject must appear mutilated and imperfect. As brevity is the soul of wit...
Page 176 - I'll do them juftice. Let every man who knows that nation fpeak of it as he found it; if he lived in their intimacy for years (as I did), and if he found them ill-natured, ill-mannered, treacherous, and cowardly, let him fpeak his mind. I quarrel with no man who judges for himfelf, and who fpsaks the truth.