Noctes Atticae: Or, Reveries in a Garret; Containing Short, and Chiefly Original, Observations on Men and BooksR. Crutwell, 1825 - 228 pages |
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... learned and ingenious inquirer ' must have for- gotten the sly and humorous mode of writing so peculiar to Addison , when he considered him as sceptical . Pretty and Handsome . These terms have been so jumbled in common conversation ...
... learned and ingenious inquirer ' must have for- gotten the sly and humorous mode of writing so peculiar to Addison , when he considered him as sceptical . Pretty and Handsome . These terms have been so jumbled in common conversation ...
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... a large quarto volume , entitled " A Review of the Works of the Royal Society ; " in which , by the most unfair quotations , mutilations , and misrepresentations , numbers of the papers read before that learned body are exposed and 13.
... a large quarto volume , entitled " A Review of the Works of the Royal Society ; " in which , by the most unfair quotations , mutilations , and misrepresentations , numbers of the papers read before that learned body are exposed and 13.
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... learned body are exposed and made ridiculous , by the title of ' Philosophical Transactions . ' The work is pre- faced with a most audacious dedication to Martin Folkes , esq ; who was then president of that society . Botany , and ...
... learned body are exposed and made ridiculous , by the title of ' Philosophical Transactions . ' The work is pre- faced with a most audacious dedication to Martin Folkes , esq ; who was then president of that society . Botany , and ...
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... learned times a dunce . Plato would have expelled him from his commonwealth ; Socrates would have quizzed him ; and Aristotle ham- pered him by a syllogism . Rural Innocence Is one of the popular " cants " which prose - men have most ...
... learned times a dunce . Plato would have expelled him from his commonwealth ; Socrates would have quizzed him ; and Aristotle ham- pered him by a syllogism . Rural Innocence Is one of the popular " cants " which prose - men have most ...
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... learned Italian , was born in 1398 at Tolentino . His great reputation and success in literature did not satisfy the pride of scholarship : he wished to reign alone in the republic of letters . He would dispute on the most trivial ...
... learned Italian , was born in 1398 at Tolentino . His great reputation and success in literature did not satisfy the pride of scholarship : he wished to reign alone in the republic of letters . He would dispute on the most trivial ...
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Page 34 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 68 - What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks, How due ! yet all His good...
Page 129 - FRIENDS. Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care. Tis thus in friendships; who depend On many, rarely find a friend. A hare, who in a civil way, Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bestial train Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain.
Page 45 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Page 28 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 22 - Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home; Fear, pity, justice, indignation start, Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart ; Till half a patriot, half a coward grown, I fly from petty tyrants to the throne.
Page 40 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Page 119 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 5 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Page 193 - ... let it appear that he doth not change his country manners for those of foreign parts; but only prick in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country.