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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... writer and the reader of an or- dinary novel seem to have entered into a mutual agreement as to the quality of the ingredients used in its composition : the chief of which is , a display of the passion of love , not only in all its va ...
... writer and the reader of an or- dinary novel seem to have entered into a mutual agreement as to the quality of the ingredients used in its composition : the chief of which is , a display of the passion of love , not only in all its va ...
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... there , should I think it necessary to enlarge further upon this topic : for had novels produced nothing in civilised life except a dinner to the writer , and a harmless expedient for killing time to the reader , though I 8.
... there , should I think it necessary to enlarge further upon this topic : for had novels produced nothing in civilised life except a dinner to the writer , and a harmless expedient for killing time to the reader , though I 8.
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... writing billets on green and yellow paper , fits of spleen , the composition of sonnets , and an invincible antipathy to useful books . Shortly after , the disease puts on a more formidable appearance : the young lady ( whom we may ...
... writing billets on green and yellow paper , fits of spleen , the composition of sonnets , and an invincible antipathy to useful books . Shortly after , the disease puts on a more formidable appearance : the young lady ( whom we may ...
第 22 頁
... - terate and rapacious miscreants , who earn a livelihood by infusing immorality and absurdity into the general mind , and accumulate not only wealth , but celebrity , by writing novels ! To some , it may appear unreasona- ble to declaim ...
... - terate and rapacious miscreants , who earn a livelihood by infusing immorality and absurdity into the general mind , and accumulate not only wealth , but celebrity , by writing novels ! To some , it may appear unreasona- ble to declaim ...
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... writers who , by com posing novels like that of Tom Jones , not only instil improper thoughts , but inter- cept the progress of useful learning ! The excuse commonly offered for admiring Tom Jones is , D 2 35 rious task of giving ...
... writers who , by com posing novels like that of Tom Jones , not only instil improper thoughts , but inter- cept the progress of useful learning ! The excuse commonly offered for admiring Tom Jones is , D 2 35 rious task of giving ...
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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.