An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 страници |
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... reason , and gram- matical accuracy , fall unlamented be- fore him . The author of the novel feels no compunction , nor his reader any dis- gust ; the former acquires money , and the latter finds amusement : and so far there is not any ...
... reason , and gram- matical accuracy , fall unlamented be- fore him . The author of the novel feels no compunction , nor his reader any dis- gust ; the former acquires money , and the latter finds amusement : and so far there is not any ...
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... are followed by dislike , and dislike by detestation : their asperities of temper are not softened by the imperious necessity of providing for the wants of children , whom they can scarcely feed , and ( for obvious reasons ) cannot 21.
... are followed by dislike , and dislike by detestation : their asperities of temper are not softened by the imperious necessity of providing for the wants of children , whom they can scarcely feed , and ( for obvious reasons ) cannot 21.
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... reasons ) cannot educate . And thus we have two divinities transformed into two fiends , who propagate a race of sons and daugh- ters doomed , like themselves , to suffer future misery , and to inflict it ; to en- cumber , not to serve ...
... reasons ) cannot educate . And thus we have two divinities transformed into two fiends , who propagate a race of sons and daugh- ters doomed , like themselves , to suffer future misery , and to inflict it ; to en- cumber , not to serve ...
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... reason to think that some of the well - known works to which the above titles are prefixed will answer our pur- pose as fully as any others ; and as it is more or less the prevailing fashion to read , and quote , and praise the first ...
... reason to think that some of the well - known works to which the above titles are prefixed will answer our pur- pose as fully as any others ; and as it is more or less the prevailing fashion to read , and quote , and praise the first ...
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... reason , inexcusable ; and I must beg leave to remind them of a certain sarcasm attributed to Voltaire , as applied to the dramas of Shakspeare , and in allusion to the human person : " We are not , " said the wit , " because nakedness ...
... reason , inexcusable ; and I must beg leave to remind them of a certain sarcasm attributed to Voltaire , as applied to the dramas of Shakspeare , and in allusion to the human person : " We are not , " said the wit , " because nakedness ...
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Страница 176 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
Страница 175 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Страница 168 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; — The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain — A new creation rescued from his reign.
Страница 167 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The...
Страница 181 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
Страница 188 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
Страница 174 - As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Страница 189 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
Страница 183 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.
Страница 188 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.