Works, Volume 7W. Durell, 1811 |
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... earlier predecessors had their choice of vices and follies , and selected such as were most likely to raise merriment or attract attention ; they had the whole field of life before them , untrodden and unsur- 8 No. 3 . THE IDLER .
... earlier predecessors had their choice of vices and follies , and selected such as were most likely to raise merriment or attract attention ; they had the whole field of life before them , untrodden and unsur- 8 No. 3 . THE IDLER .
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... attention to something which may appear more eligible , because it will be new . Whatever is left in the hands of chance must be sub- ject to vicissitude ; and when any establishment is found to be useful , it ought to be the next care ...
... attention to something which may appear more eligible , because it will be new . Whatever is left in the hands of chance must be sub- ject to vicissitude ; and when any establishment is found to be useful , it ought to be the next care ...
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... attention . The care of the publick is now fixed upon our soldiers , who are leaving their native country to wander , none can tell how long , in the pathless deserts of the Isle of Wight . The tender sigh for their sufferings , and the ...
... attention . The care of the publick is now fixed upon our soldiers , who are leaving their native country to wander , none can tell how long , in the pathless deserts of the Isle of Wight . The tender sigh for their sufferings , and the ...
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... attention and distinction , reflection on the past and solicitude for the future , by a long in- dulgence of idleness , will , like tapers in unelastic air , be gradually extinguished ; and the officious lover , the vigilant soldier ...
... attention and distinction , reflection on the past and solicitude for the future , by a long in- dulgence of idleness , will , like tapers in unelastic air , be gradually extinguished ; and the officious lover , the vigilant soldier ...
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... attention is diverted to other thoughts , by finding that Mirza will not cover this season ; or that a spaniel has been lost or stolen , that answers to the name of Ranger . Whence it arises that on the day of marriage all agree to call ...
... attention is diverted to other thoughts , by finding that Mirza will not cover this season ; or that a spaniel has been lost or stolen , that answers to the name of Ranger . Whence it arises that on the day of marriage all agree to call ...
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amusement art of memory Bassora beauty censure common commonly considered critick curiosity danger delight desire diligence discovered Ditto domestick dreaded Drugget easily easy elegance endeavour enemies equal evil expected eyes fortune friends genius give gout gratified hand happiness honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler Iliad imagination inquire Islington king of Norway knowledge labour lady Lapland learned less live look lost Louisbourg mankind marriage memory ment mind Minorca miscarriage misery mistress morning nation nature necessary ness never Newmarket night observed once opinion pain passed passions perhaps Peterhouse pleased pleasure portunities praise produce publick rapture readers reason resolved rich SATURDAY seldom shew sidered sometimes soon Sophron spect suffered supposed sure talk tell thing thought tion told truth virtue vulture weary wife wish wonder write
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Page 273 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 278 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Page 159 - ... virtue, nor excite it. Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction...
Page 272 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.
Page 51 - ... who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements...
Page 281 - There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and...
Page 145 - Tully, who does not believe that he may yet live another year; and there is none who does not, upon the same principle, hope another year for his parent or his friend: but the fallacy will be in time detected; the last year, the last day, must come. It has come, and is past. The life which made my own life pleasant is at an end, and the gates of death are shut upon my prospects.
Page 280 - ... the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other.
Page 174 - ... mire and water, and met not a single soul for two miles together with whom he could exchange a word. He cannot deny that, looking round upon the dreary region, and seeing nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him, and wished himself again safe at home.
Page 222 - HE natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.