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... . Lack of general ideas in this age and this stamp of mind - Dryden's transla- tions - Adaptations - Imitations - Tales and letters - Faults - Merits— VOL . II . A Gravity of his character , brilliancy of his inspiration ,
... . Lack of general ideas in this age and this stamp of mind - Dryden's transla- tions - Adaptations - Imitations - Tales and letters - Faults - Merits— VOL . II . A Gravity of his character , brilliancy of his inspiration ,
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... letters . I find the same inclination and the same signs in the remainder of his life , private or public . He regularly spends his mornings in writing or reading , then dines with his family . His reading was that of a man of culture ...
... letters . I find the same inclination and the same signs in the remainder of his life , private or public . He regularly spends his mornings in writing or reading , then dines with his family . His reading was that of a man of culture ...
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... letters ; he criticised novelties - Racine's last tragedy , Blackmore's heavy epic , Swift's first poems ; slightly vain , praising his own writings , to the extent of saying that no one had ever composed or will ever compose a finer ...
... letters ; he criticised novelties - Racine's last tragedy , Blackmore's heavy epic , Swift's first poems ; slightly vain , praising his own writings , to the extent of saying that no one had ever composed or will ever compose a finer ...
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... letters heard or believed , and the mind enters compulsorily upon a track when it is the only one that can conduct it to its goal . Dryden entered upon it spontaneously . In his second production , ' the abundance of well - ordered ...
... letters heard or believed , and the mind enters compulsorily upon a track when it is the only one that can conduct it to its goal . Dryden entered upon it spontaneously . In his second production , ' the abundance of well - ordered ...
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... letters , satires , translations and imita- tions , this is the field on which logical faculties and the art of writing find their best occupation . Before descending into it , and observing their work , it will be as well to study more ...
... letters , satires , translations and imita- tions , this is the field on which logical faculties and the art of writing find their best occupation . Before descending into it , and observing their work , it will be as well to study more ...
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Page 246 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 189 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Page 211 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
Page 147 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Page 523 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 528 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 361 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Page 523 - What is this? his eyes are heavy; think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him, it is thy duty; kiss him, take his hand in thine. It may be my lord is weary, that his brain is overwrought; Soothe him with thy finer fancies, touch him with thy lighter thought. He will answer to the purpose, easy things to understand — Better thou wert dead before me, tho
Page 114 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 33 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.