The British Essayists: RamblerAlexander Chalmers C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... writer who has left behind him observations upon life , that no man is pleased with his present state , which proves equally unsatisfactory , says Horace , whether fallen upon by chance , or chosen with deliberation ; we are always ...
... writer who has left behind him observations upon life , that no man is pleased with his present state , which proves equally unsatisfactory , says Horace , whether fallen upon by chance , or chosen with deliberation ; we are always ...
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... writers , to lay hold on the present hour , to catch the pleasures within our reach , and remember that futurity is not at our command : Τὸ ῥόδον ἀκμάζει βαιὸν χρόνον · ην δὲ παρέλθης , Ζητῶν εὑρήσεις οὐ ῥόδον , ἀλλὰ βάτον . Soon fades ...
... writers , to lay hold on the present hour , to catch the pleasures within our reach , and remember that futurity is not at our command : Τὸ ῥόδον ἀκμάζει βαιὸν χρόνον · ην δὲ παρέλθης , Ζητῶν εὑρήσεις οὐ ῥόδον , ἀλλὰ βάτον . Soon fades ...
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... writer has always declaimed , in the rage of disappointment , against his age or nation ; nor is there one who has not fallen upon times more unfavourable to learning than any former century , or who does not wish , that he had been ...
... writer has always declaimed , in the rage of disappointment , against his age or nation ; nor is there one who has not fallen upon times more unfavourable to learning than any former century , or who does not wish , that he had been ...
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... writers , whose powers and acquisitions place them high in the ranks of literature , to set fashion on the side of wickedness ; to recommend debauchery and lewdness , by associating them with qualities most likely to dazzle the ...
... writers , whose powers and acquisitions place them high in the ranks of literature , to set fashion on the side of wickedness ; to recommend debauchery and lewdness , by associating them with qualities most likely to dazzle the ...
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... writer of sentences has laid down as a standing maxim , that he who believes not another on his oath , knows himself to be per- jured . ' We can form our opinions of that which we know not , only by placing it in comparison with some ...
... writer of sentences has laid down as a standing maxim , that he who believes not another on his oath , knows himself to be per- jured . ' We can form our opinions of that which we know not , only by placing it in comparison with some ...
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Ajax amusements appearance attention beauty celebrated censure considered contempt curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dignity diligence discover DRYDEN elegance endeavoured envy equally excellence expected eyes Falsehood fancy favour fear FEBRUARY 16 felicity flattered folly fortune frequently genius gratifications happiness harmony heart hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination inclined inquiry JANUARY 22 judgement Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look mankind MARCH 19 ment Milton mind miscarriages nature necessary nerally ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poet portunity praise precepts pride pupillage racters RAMBLER reason regard rest ruentes SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sophisms sound suffer surely syllables thing thou thought thousand tion tivate Truth TUESDAY vanity verse Virgil virtue vowels wisdom writers XVII
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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.