Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Bind 2J. Sharpe, 1805 - 472 sider |
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... oriental lite- rature , printed , during the time he was head master of Merchant Taylor's School , " The first part of the ELEMENTARIE , which entreateth chefe- ly of the right writing of the English Tung . " London , 4to . This is a ...
... oriental lite- rature , printed , during the time he was head master of Merchant Taylor's School , " The first part of the ELEMENTARIE , which entreateth chefe- ly of the right writing of the English Tung . " London , 4to . This is a ...
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... Oriental or Asiatic style , that the greater part of the metaphors are taken , from the celestial luminaries . The works of the Persians , ' says M. de Voltaire , ) are like the titles of their kings , in which we are perpe- tually ...
... Oriental or Asiatic style , that the greater part of the metaphors are taken , from the celestial luminaries . The works of the Persians , ' says M. de Voltaire , ) are like the titles of their kings , in which we are perpe- tually ...
Side 157
... orient hues- " From these remarks it may be easily under- stood , why the word imagination , in its most or- dinary acceptation , should be applied to cases where our conceptions are derived from the sense of sight : although the prov ...
... orient hues- " From these remarks it may be easily under- stood , why the word imagination , in its most or- dinary acceptation , should be applied to cases where our conceptions are derived from the sense of sight : although the prov ...
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... oriental imagery . No portions of the periodical compositions of our author have been more generally relished and admired than those which aim to instruct through the medium of narrative and fiction ; and of these by far the greater ...
... oriental imagery . No portions of the periodical compositions of our author have been more generally relished and admired than those which aim to instruct through the medium of narrative and fiction ; and of these by far the greater ...
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... oriental fiction , and on its in- troduction into Europe and this island . The cultivation of oriental literature , which for the last half century has been prosecuted with uncommon ardour in this country , has furnished us with ...
... oriental fiction , and on its in- troduction into Europe and this island . The cultivation of oriental literature , which for the last half century has been prosecuted with uncommon ardour in this country , has furnished us with ...
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Addison admirable Anatomy of Melancholy ancient apologues appear Arabian beauty caliphs Canterbury Tales century character charms Chaucer Chimæra colours composition consider criticism crusade delight diction Ditto Dryden East edition effect elegant endeavours English English Poetry Essays excellent exhibited exquisite fable fairy fancy genius Geoffery grace guage hath heaven humour imagery imagination justly king language learned literary literature Lord manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never night observes opinion oriental passage period Persian perspicuity philosophy Pilpay pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry present productions prose racter reader remarks rich Roger de Coverley romance says second Crusade sense Shakspeare shew Simeon Seth simplicity Sir Roger species specimen Spectator spirit stars story style sublime supposed sweetness taste Tatler things third crusade thou tion verse whilst William of Malmesbury wonderful words writers written
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Side 34 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Side 113 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Side 13 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Side 46 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Side 20 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Side 101 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Side 37 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Side 36 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave ; whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to point out and describe.
Side 37 - ... reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as ' are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.
Side 2 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...