The British Essayists: RamblerAlexander Chalmers C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... learning , to descend to familiar life , and caution mankind against that petty ambition which is known among us by the name of vanity ; which yet had been an undertaking not unworthy of the longest beard and most solemn austerity . For ...
... learning , to descend to familiar life , and caution mankind against that petty ambition which is known among us by the name of vanity ; which yet had been an undertaking not unworthy of the longest beard and most solemn austerity . For ...
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... learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert , where he roars without reply , and ravages without resistance . Without good - humour virtue may awe by its dignity , and amaze by ...
... learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert , where he roars without reply , and ravages without resistance . Without good - humour virtue may awe by its dignity , and amaze by ...
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... learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit calls all attention from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . " It is remarked by prince Henry , when he sees Falstaff lying on the ground , that he could ...
... learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit calls all attention from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . " It is remarked by prince Henry , when he sees Falstaff lying on the ground , that he could ...
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... learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base ex- traction , the child of vanity , and nursling of igno- rance . No. 75. TUESDAY , DECEMBER 4 , 1750 . Diligitur nemo , nisi cui Fortuna secunda est , Quæ simul intonuit , proxima ...
... learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base ex- traction , the child of vanity , and nursling of igno- rance . No. 75. TUESDAY , DECEMBER 4 , 1750 . Diligitur nemo , nisi cui Fortuna secunda est , Quæ simul intonuit , proxima ...
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... learning or their wit . " From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk , something may be gained , which , embellished with elegancy and soft- ened by modesty , will always add dignity and value to female ...
... learning or their wit . " From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk , something may be gained , which , embellished with elegancy and soft- ened by modesty , will always add dignity and value to female ...
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第137页 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
第175页 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
第260页 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
第148页 - Italian, the most mellifluous of all modern poetry, seems fully convinced of the unfitness of our language for smooth versification, and is therefore pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance : for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself in a long series of proper names, and introduces them where they add little but music to his poem : — The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El...
第26页 - As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise ; he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices. He sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring ; all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
第187页 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight 80 We sunk thus low ? th...
第147页 - Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub...
第138页 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake. And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
第108页 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
第26页 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.