Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of LiteratureJ. Raw, 1810 - 241 страници |
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... exquisite precision ; but utterly free from all affectation . The subject itself is ably treated : the thread of the narrative is steadily pursued ; the collateral and explanatory matter , judiciously interwoven ; and the images by ...
... exquisite precision ; but utterly free from all affectation . The subject itself is ably treated : the thread of the narrative is steadily pursued ; the collateral and explanatory matter , judiciously interwoven ; and the images by ...
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... exquisite taste and critical discernment , can I believe him serious or sincere , in disclaiming the honour of forming a triumvirate of British Historians , with such a colleague ? DEC . the 11th . Finished the 1st Vol . of Robertson's ...
... exquisite taste and critical discernment , can I believe him serious or sincere , in disclaiming the honour of forming a triumvirate of British Historians , with such a colleague ? DEC . the 11th . Finished the 1st Vol . of Robertson's ...
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... exquisite skill , poignant taste , and profound erudition of Gibbon . Though Robertson's style appears quite unexceptionable , [ 1796. ] and perfectly well adapted for grave communication 19 what wine he chooses, at and between the ...
... exquisite skill , poignant taste , and profound erudition of Gibbon . Though Robertson's style appears quite unexceptionable , [ 1796. ] and perfectly well adapted for grave communication 19 what wine he chooses, at and between the ...
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... exquisite morceau of literature , but which might have been rendered far more interesting by anecdotes of such of his acquaintance as were distinguished characters - a disclosure , properly conducted , of which I cannot see the harm ...
... exquisite morceau of literature , but which might have been rendered far more interesting by anecdotes of such of his acquaintance as were distinguished characters - a disclosure , properly conducted , of which I cannot see the harm ...
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... exquisite art ( artis est , celare artem ) to give the particular impres- sion he wished . How different do the same transactions appear , under the colour- ing of Swift and Burnet ! -The Letter to a Whig Lord ( Vol . 24 , Nichols ...
... exquisite art ( artis est , celare artem ) to give the particular impres- sion he wished . How different do the same transactions appear , under the colour- ing of Swift and Burnet ! -The Letter to a Whig Lord ( Vol . 24 , Nichols ...
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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.