The Rambler. ...W. Gordon, C. Wright, and the other booksellers, 1750 |
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... natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure , but from hope to hope . He that directs his fteps ... nature , it must be confeffed , that this caution against keeping our view too intent upon remote advanta- ges is ...
... natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure , but from hope to hope . He that directs his fteps ... nature , it must be confeffed , that this caution against keeping our view too intent upon remote advanta- ges is ...
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... nature may not have qualified him much to enlarge or embellish knowledge , nor fent him forth intitled by indifputable fuperiority to regulate the conduct of the rest of mankind ; that , though the world muft be granted to be yet in ...
... nature may not have qualified him much to enlarge or embellish knowledge , nor fent him forth intitled by indifputable fuperiority to regulate the conduct of the rest of mankind ; that , though the world muft be granted to be yet in ...
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... nature of my undertaking gives me fufficient reafon to dread the united attacks of this virulent generation , yet I have not hitherto perfuad- ed myself to take any measures for flight or treaty . For I am in doubt , whether they can ...
... nature of my undertaking gives me fufficient reafon to dread the united attacks of this virulent generation , yet I have not hitherto perfuad- ed myself to take any measures for flight or treaty . For I am in doubt , whether they can ...
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... natural events by eafy means , and to keep up curiofity without the help of wonder : it is therefore precluded from the machines and ex- pedients of the heroick romance , and can neither em- ploy giants to fnatch away a lady from the ...
... natural events by eafy means , and to keep up curiofity without the help of wonder : it is therefore precluded from the machines and ex- pedients of the heroick romance , and can neither em- ploy giants to fnatch away a lady from the ...
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... nature , or acquaintance with life . The task of our prefent writers is very different ; it requires , together with that learning which is to be gained from books , that experience which can never be attained by folitary diligence ...
... nature , or acquaintance with life . The task of our prefent writers is very different ; it requires , together with that learning which is to be gained from books , that experience which can never be attained by folitary diligence ...
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Страница 13 - Yet there is a certain race of men, that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius ; who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving ignorance and envy the first notice of a prey.
Страница 237 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched ; this is the condition of all below the stars ; and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Страница 19 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself...
Страница 18 - They are engaged in portraits of which every one knows the original, and can detect any deviation from exactness of resemblance. Other writings are safe, except from the malice of learning, but these are in danger from every common reader; as the slipper ill executed was censured by a shoemaker who happened to stop in his way at the Venus of Apelles.
Страница 17 - The works of fiction with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Страница 18 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Страница 19 - For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.
Страница 259 - ... never arrives. He lies down delighted with the thoughts of to-morrow, pleases his ambition with the fame he shall acquire, or his benevolence with the good he shall confer. But in the night the skies...
Страница 238 - Providence diffused such innumerable objects of delight but that all might rejoice in the privilege of existence, and be filled with gratitude to the beneficent author of it? Thus to enjoy the blessings he has sent is virtue and obedience; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure is pitiable ignorance or absurd perverseness.
Страница 22 - In narratives where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...