Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones Essays. Launcelot Temple's Sketches. The Lover |
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E apAS Y Poetry is universally admir- gine that style to be easy which cuftorn ed ; but I know not whether any has made ... Easy poetry is that in which natural She bow'd , obey'd him , and cut paper . thoughts are expresled without ...
E apAS Y Poetry is universally admir- gine that style to be easy which cuftorn ed ; but I know not whether any has made ... Easy poetry is that in which natural She bow'd , obey'd him , and cut paper . thoughts are expresled without ...
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It of our poets , yet his pursuit of remote is less difficult to write a volume of lines thoughts led him often into ... that they might partake the gives the idle and luxurious an annual I know not whether by merit or de . reason for ...
It of our poets , yet his pursuit of remote is less difficult to write a volume of lines thoughts led him often into ... that they might partake the gives the idle and luxurious an annual I know not whether by merit or de . reason for ...
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... and I avoidert , and must be kept as separate think I have seen figures of him of which from it as the style of Poetry from that it was very difficult to determine whether of History . Poetical ornaments destroy they were in the ...
... and I avoidert , and must be kept as separate think I have seen figures of him of which from it as the style of Poetry from that it was very difficult to determine whether of History . Poetical ornaments destroy they were in the ...
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Ac- bushes , supposes it to be some game , cordingly they range themselves in form and accordingly discharges his bow ... my particular and disgusting as it is adopted by our taste , I will acknowlerige , that it appears British hard .
Ac- bushes , supposes it to be some game , cordingly they range themselves in form and accordingly discharges his bow ... my particular and disgusting as it is adopted by our taste , I will acknowlerige , that it appears British hard .
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I find , by one part of his will , try ; where it faintly participated either he obliged his heir to consume a ... even in those kingdoms where the posthumous figure of him , that ei : her it is most essentially interwoven with re- ...
I find , by one part of his will , try ; where it faintly participated either he obliged his heir to consume a ... even in those kingdoms where the posthumous figure of him , that ei : her it is most essentially interwoven with re- ...
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Page 119 - ... to prove that one species is really more beautiful than another. That we prefer one to the other, and with very good reason, will be readily granted; but it does not follow from thence that we think it a more beautiful form; for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment.
Page 115 - Venetian school, which may be said to be the Dutch part of the Italian genius. I have only to add a word of advice to the painters, that however excellent they may be in painting naturally, they would not...
Page 65 - If the parts of time were not variously coloured, we should never discern their departure or succession, but should live thoughtless of the past, and careless of the future, without will, and perhaps without power, to compute the periods of life, or to compare the time which is already lost with that which may probably remain.
Page 65 - Let him that desires to see others happy make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. And let him, who purposes his own happiness, reflect, that while he forms his purpose the day rolls on, and the night cometh when no man can work.
Page 119 - I suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters were to paint the goddess of beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat nose, and woolly hair ; and, it seems to me, he would act very unnaturally if he did not...
Page 138 - None will flatter the poor, and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich.
Page 65 - ... accuracy the course of time, appear to have little sensibility of the decline of life. Every man has something to do which he neglects ; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. So little do we...
Page 52 - The spirit, volatile and fiery, is the proper emblem of vivacity and wit ; the acidity of the lemon. will very aptly figure pungency of raillery, and acrimony of censure; sugar is the natural representative of luscious adulation and gentle complaisance ; and water is the proper hieroglyphic of easy prattle, innocent and tasteless.
Page 119 - To instance in a particular part of a feature ; the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight; this, then, is the central form, which is oftener found than either concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed.
Page 143 - I had now nothing left but retirement ; and for retirement I never found a time, till disease forced me from public employment.
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| Title | Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones Essays. Launcelot Temple's Sketches. The Lover Volume 8 of Harrison's British Classicks, Edward Francis Burney |
| Contributors | Edward Francis Burney, Richard Corbould |
| Publisher | Harrison and Company, 1787 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Nov 2006 |
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