Essays, on miscellaneous subjects; with An enquiry into the present state of polite learningSamuel Archer, 1818 - 270 頁 |
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第 3 頁
... means complain of their circulation . The magazines and papers of the day have indeed been liberal enough in this respect . Most of these essays have been regularly reprinted twice or thrice a year , and con- veyed to the public through ...
... means complain of their circulation . The magazines and papers of the day have indeed been liberal enough in this respect . Most of these essays have been regularly reprinted twice or thrice a year , and con- veyed to the public through ...
第 17 頁
... means so fortunate as the writers of magazines , who write upon several . If a magaziner be dull upon the Spanish war , he soon has us up again with the ghost in Cock - Lane ; if the reader begins to doze upon that , he is quickly ...
... means so fortunate as the writers of magazines , who write upon several . If a magaziner be dull upon the Spanish war , he soon has us up again with the ghost in Cock - Lane ; if the reader begins to doze upon that , he is quickly ...
第 27 頁
... mean vain curiosity , and empty specula- tion , as such pleasures have their origin in vanity , luxury , or avarice , we are too good to pursue them . " -- " All this may be right , " says Asem ; " but methinks I observe a solitary ...
... mean vain curiosity , and empty specula- tion , as such pleasures have their origin in vanity , luxury , or avarice , we are too good to pursue them . " -- " All this may be right , " says Asem ; " but methinks I observe a solitary ...
第 30 頁
... means , our clergy have an opportunity of seeing better company while young , and of sooner wearing off those prejudices which they are apt to imbibe even in the best regulated universities , and which may be justly termed the vulgar ...
... means , our clergy have an opportunity of seeing better company while young , and of sooner wearing off those prejudices which they are apt to imbibe even in the best regulated universities , and which may be justly termed the vulgar ...
第 31 頁
... mean capacities ; and they who want instruction most , find least in our religious assemblies . Whatever may become of the higher orders of man- kind , who are generally possessed of collateral motives to virtue , the vulgar should be ...
... mean capacities ; and they who want instruction most , find least in our religious assemblies . Whatever may become of the higher orders of man- kind , who are generally possessed of collateral motives to virtue , the vulgar should be ...
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第 132 頁 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
第 150 頁 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
第 150 頁 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
第 139 頁 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
第 131 頁 - To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
第 103 頁 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
第 173 頁 - Yet, notwithstanding this weight of authority, and the universal practice of former ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults of mankind, make our interest in the piece.
第 234 頁 - There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much as possible.
第 233 頁 - His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning ; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonize under the slightest disappointment.
第 132 頁 - He now drops this idea, and reverts to his reasoning on death, in the course of which he owns himself deterred from suicide by the thoughts of what may follow death: the dread of something after death (That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns.) This might be a good argument in a Heathen or Pagan, and such indeed...