The British Essayists, Volume 1Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 - English essays |
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Page xxiii
... sense through the bulk of a people , to clear up their under- standings , animate their minds with virtue , dissipate the sorrows of a heavy heart , or unbend the mind from its more evere employments with innocent amusements . ' ADDISON ...
... sense through the bulk of a people , to clear up their under- standings , animate their minds with virtue , dissipate the sorrows of a heavy heart , or unbend the mind from its more evere employments with innocent amusements . ' ADDISON ...
Page xxv
... sense , and exhibit the varieties it as- sumes in the different classes of rich and poor , learned and illiterate ; nor could they with becoming gravity exemplify the whim- sical effects of petulance C 3 BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XXV.
... sense , and exhibit the varieties it as- sumes in the different classes of rich and poor , learned and illiterate ; nor could they with becoming gravity exemplify the whim- sical effects of petulance C 3 BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XXV.
Page xxvii
... sense of propriety and decorum , the benefits of which are incalculable , and have left the objects of their instructions with no other plea for frailty , than that which wisdom itself can- not always resist , the violence of passion ...
... sense of propriety and decorum , the benefits of which are incalculable , and have left the objects of their instructions with no other plea for frailty , than that which wisdom itself can- not always resist , the violence of passion ...
Page xxxii
... sense of family - honour , yet sometimes with notions rather gay and loose ; in the other , œconomy , snugness , integrity , and some prejudices of pretty high antiquity . When , however , successful commerce af- forded the latter the ...
... sense of family - honour , yet sometimes with notions rather gay and loose ; in the other , œconomy , snugness , integrity , and some prejudices of pretty high antiquity . When , however , successful commerce af- forded the latter the ...
Page lx
... sense of propriety in words as well as in action : and an abhor- rence of gross vices , as offensive to the Deity , and dangerous to the eternal welfare of man . When betrayed by liveliness of temper into an expression inconsistent with ...
... sense of propriety in words as well as in action : and an abhor- rence of gross vices , as offensive to the Deity , and dangerous to the eternal welfare of man . When betrayed by liveliness of temper into an expression inconsistent with ...
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Page 258 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page v - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Page 258 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,- whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page vi - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Page 258 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 258 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them thatU will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity.
Page 93 - The ships unmoved the boist'rous winds defy, While rattling chariots o'er the ocean fly. The vast leviathan wants room to play, And spout his waters in the face of day; The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. For many a shining league the level main Here spreads itself into a glassy plain; There solid billows of enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.
Page 258 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page lxxiii - The general Purpose of the whole has been to recommend Truth, Innocence, Honour, and Virtue, as the chief Ornaments of Life; but I considered, that Severity of Manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that Reason, and that only, chose to talk in a Mask.
Page 258 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus...