Aristarchus Anti-Blomfieldianus

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Страница xii - As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set : Their want of edge from their offence is seen ; Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.
Страница 41 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Страница 2 - All this too may be done without running the. risk of making any enemies, or subjecting yourself to be called to account for your criticism, however severe. While your name is unknown, your person is invulnerable : at the same time your own aim is sure, for you may take it at your leisure ; and your blows fall heavier than those of any writer whose name is given, or who is simply anonymous. There is a mysterious authority in the plural we, which no single name, whatever may be its reputation, can...
Страница 46 - And though we do very much honour Aristotle, yet are we so farre from being tyed up to his opinions, that persons of all conditions amongst us take liberty to dissent from him, and to declare against him, according as any contrary evidence doth engage them, being ready to follow the Banner of Truth by whomsoever it shall be lifted...
Страница 17 - Thes. and the promised exposure of our 136 blunders. But instead of this, we found only Mr. Barker's indignation at the following irreverent mention of Gothofred Hermann of Leipsic, from whom the editors had procured and printed in their Gazette, a panegyrical character of themselves : ' We are not disposed to enter at length into a consideration of the original criticisms which the editors have inserted ; but we cannot forbear noticing the most extraordinary confession which they have made, in a...
Страница 40 - But this defence, although plausible, is not true. The question is not whether every word is to be illustrated at equal length ; but whether a proportionable number of words, throughout the alphabet, are to serve as pegs for notes and dissertations ; and we do not hesitate to affirm, that if the editors preserve any degree of consistency or plan, and illustrate other classes of words in the same manner as they have elucidated...
Страница 67 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet, or peer, Lost the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnassian sneer?
Страница 41 - Twelve pantaloons, twelve pair of boots. The editors, in a paper drawn up for the purpose of obviating some objections of Professor Hermann, have endeavoured to defend themselves, by stating, that ' it has been their great object, as far as it is practicable, without disturbing the arrangement of H. Stephens, to bring into one and the same article all the various synonymes, because by their juxtaposition they mutually reflect light upon each other.
Страница 44 - So noiseless would I live, such death to find ; Like timely fruit, not shaken by the wind, But ripely dropping from the sapless bough, And, dying, nothing to myself would owe. Eve. Thus, daily changing, with a duller taste Of lessening joys, I, by degrees, would waste : Still quitting ground, by unperceived decay, And steal myself from life, and melt away.
Страница 4 - Critias in Elegiis, ap. Athen. 432.) just enough to scratch up a little dirt for a time, and erect a petty mound, which he fancies to be a splendid monument of his talents, but which proves to be " a striking monument of ill-directed labour," p. 347. For by raising the earth he has left room for a trap to catch him : and soon like Satan exalted sits, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence.

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