The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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Page 41
... imitation of ancient standards . ourselves to the five To the art of the sta- that of the architect Why we should continue to enslave orders of Vitruvius , I cannot well see . tuary there is a conceivable limit , but seems to admit a ...
... imitation of ancient standards . ourselves to the five To the art of the sta- that of the architect Why we should continue to enslave orders of Vitruvius , I cannot well see . tuary there is a conceivable limit , but seems to admit a ...
Page 42
... imitating an Italian villa , with its open balco- nies , and shady colonnades , unless we could , at the same time ... imitate a tree , by lessening as it rises ? Custom alone has reconciled us to an unmeaning deviation , which throws ...
... imitating an Italian villa , with its open balco- nies , and shady colonnades , unless we could , at the same time ... imitate a tree , by lessening as it rises ? Custom alone has reconciled us to an unmeaning deviation , which throws ...
Page 45
... imitation , not the paintings of nature , but old Continental pictures , which , even supposing them to be genuine , have often lost the sole distinction that once conferred a value upon them . But in many instances they are spurious ...
... imitation , not the paintings of nature , but old Continental pictures , which , even supposing them to be genuine , have often lost the sole distinction that once conferred a value upon them . But in many instances they are spurious ...
Page 48
... imitation of which sapient example , our Church has provided a cat - o - thirty - nine - tails , to lash back the tide of human thought and circumscribe the illimitable range of opinion . In both instances the success has been .48 THE ...
... imitation of which sapient example , our Church has provided a cat - o - thirty - nine - tails , to lash back the tide of human thought and circumscribe the illimitable range of opinion . In both instances the success has been .48 THE ...
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... imitation of the Thunderer by Salmoneus , which , instead of giving him a place among the Gods , con- signed him to the regions below . Of the written Bathos , an amusing instance is afforded in the published tour of a lady , who has ...
... imitation of the Thunderer by Salmoneus , which , instead of giving him a place among the Gods , con- signed him to the regions below . Of the written Bathos , an amusing instance is afforded in the published tour of a lady , who has ...
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Page 48 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 170 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 158 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Page 50 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Page 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 148 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 83 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Page 135 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 107 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.
Page 135 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.