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... will gradually cease , and the literary energies of the time will revive some older form , or will strike out some new line of development , rather than continue in a course in which it seems xxxviii CLOSE OF THE FIRST PERIOD .
... will gradually cease , and the literary energies of the time will revive some older form , or will strike out some new line of development , rather than continue in a course in which it seems xxxviii CLOSE OF THE FIRST PERIOD .
Page xxxix
J. H. Lobban. rather than continue in a course in which it seems impossible to excel , impossible to completely avoid the dulness that is inseparable from all mere imi- tations of a successful model . Defoe's essays have their faults ...
J. H. Lobban. rather than continue in a course in which it seems impossible to excel , impossible to completely avoid the dulness that is inseparable from all mere imi- tations of a successful model . Defoe's essays have their faults ...
Page xli
... continues Boswell , " were the last of the kind pub- lished in England , which had stood the test of a long trial ... continue it for two years , and that with its many obvious defects he should have been able to win for it at last a ...
... continues Boswell , " were the last of the kind pub- lished in England , which had stood the test of a long trial ... continue it for two years , and that with its many obvious defects he should have been able to win for it at last a ...
Page lxi
... continue to be , that which Steele selected for the first English periodical— " Quicquid agunt homines nostri est farrago libelli ” . ENGLISH ESSAYS . IT FRANCIS BACON , LORD VERULAM . THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ESSAY . lxi.
... continue to be , that which Steele selected for the first English periodical— " Quicquid agunt homines nostri est farrago libelli ” . ENGLISH ESSAYS . IT FRANCIS BACON , LORD VERULAM . THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ESSAY . lxi.
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... continue it one moment , but he is dead ; and some say the great treasure he was possessed of here had one strange particular quality attending it , which might have been very dissatisfying to him if he had considered much on it ...
... continue it one moment , but he is dead ; and some say the great treasure he was possessed of here had one strange particular quality attending it , which might have been very dissatisfying to him if he had considered much on it ...
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Page 3 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Page 3 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 3 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 29 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 41 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Page 75 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Page 40 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Page 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Page 74 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Page 211 - The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil grew well, the devil a monk was he...