Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of LiteratureJ. Raw, 1810 - 241 страници |
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... expected . His exposition of the great end and object of Poetry— “ to com- municate a clear and perfect idea of the proposed subject , " affords , at the outset , a very unfavourable prognostic ; though I admit a man may understand well ...
... expected . His exposition of the great end and object of Poetry— “ to com- municate a clear and perfect idea of the proposed subject , " affords , at the outset , a very unfavourable prognostic ; though I admit a man may understand well ...
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... expected him to find them ; and it would puzzle the Directory of France , at this moment , to frame a manifesto , so neatly conceived , and so forcibly yet chastely expressed , as the reply of Ariovistus , a bar- baric chief from the ...
... expected him to find them ; and it would puzzle the Directory of France , at this moment , to frame a manifesto , so neatly conceived , and so forcibly yet chastely expressed , as the reply of Ariovistus , a bar- baric chief from the ...
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... expected the mightiest and most decisive achievements , on one side or the other . The spirit of the Romans we may suppose to have been broken ; but what shall we say for Hannibal , in not following up that stupendous victory ? [ 1797 ...
... expected the mightiest and most decisive achievements , on one side or the other . The spirit of the Romans we may suppose to have been broken ; but what shall we say for Hannibal , in not following up that stupendous victory ? [ 1797 ...
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... expected sun ; gilding , as he rose , the highest points of the eminences beneath , while all below was buried in a purple gloom - Sicily , through all its extent and waving shores , at length spread under the eye , like an illuminated ...
... expected sun ; gilding , as he rose , the highest points of the eminences beneath , while all below was buried in a purple gloom - Sicily , through all its extent and waving shores , at length spread under the eye , like an illuminated ...
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... expected from him a better explanation of the Rule of Proportion ; with the rationale of which , I have found even proficients unacquainted . The object of this Rule is , to find a number bearing a proposed ratio to a given number . In ...
... expected from him a better explanation of the Rule of Proportion ; with the rationale of which , I have found even proficients unacquainted . The object of this Rule is , to find a number bearing a proposed ratio to a given number . In ...
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Страница 236 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Страница 229 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Страница 114 - ... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter?
Страница 103 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Страница 68 - Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed.
Страница 237 - With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
Страница 9 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Страница 123 - Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left.
Страница 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.