An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 頁 |
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第 15 頁
... least formidable of them is not to be envied ! Let us imagine that , contrary to probability , she escapes infamy , deser- " . tion , and despair ; and , like another Lydia Languish , lives to be called spin- ster in 15.
... least formidable of them is not to be envied ! Let us imagine that , contrary to probability , she escapes infamy , deser- " . tion , and despair ; and , like another Lydia Languish , lives to be called spin- ster in 15.
第 43 頁
... least for a capability of being amiable ; discovers that to fall into error is not difficult , and that its effects are not fatal ; that though propriety may be outraged , the punishment is but temporary ; that debts imprudently con ...
... least for a capability of being amiable ; discovers that to fall into error is not difficult , and that its effects are not fatal ; that though propriety may be outraged , the punishment is but temporary ; that debts imprudently con ...
第 65 頁
... least is the general opi- nion . The physician who should admi- nister poison instead of medicine , may not think himself guilty of murder ; but the patient , who encounters death where he expected a cure , is equally a sufferer . I am ...
... least is the general opi- nion . The physician who should admi- nister poison instead of medicine , may not think himself guilty of murder ; but the patient , who encounters death where he expected a cure , is equally a sufferer . I am ...
第 67 頁
... least three on the part of any body else ! The admirers of Werter boast chiefly of the simplicity which pervades the work ; and , in proof of this , cite many passages in which solemn mention is made of apples , milk , coffee , they ...
... least three on the part of any body else ! The admirers of Werter boast chiefly of the simplicity which pervades the work ; and , in proof of this , cite many passages in which solemn mention is made of apples , milk , coffee , they ...
第 80 頁
... least . beguiled of their fairest opportunities of improvement in the studies that enlarge and adorn the understandings of a ci- vilised people . They rapidly learn to prefer the page of fiction to the narrative of the historian ; and ...
... least . beguiled of their fairest opportunities of improvement in the studies that enlarge and adorn the understandings of a ci- vilised people . They rapidly learn to prefer the page of fiction to the narrative of the historian ; and ...
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第 176 頁 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
第 175 頁 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
第 168 頁 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; — The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain — A new creation rescued from his reign.
第 167 頁 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The...
第 181 頁 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
第 188 頁 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
第 174 頁 - As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
第 189 頁 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
第 183 頁 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.
第 188 頁 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.