Works, Volume 7W. Durell, 1811 |
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... called , show that the authors were distressed like the natives of America , who come to the Europeans to beg a name . It will be easily believed of the Idler , that if his ti- tle had required any search , he never would have found it ...
... called , show that the authors were distressed like the natives of America , who come to the Europeans to beg a name . It will be easily believed of the Idler , that if his ti- tle had required any search , he never would have found it ...
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... called him a rea- sonable animal ; but others have considered reason as a quality of which many creatures partake . He has been termed likewise a laughing animal ; but it is said that some men have never laughed . Perhaps man may be ...
... called him a rea- sonable animal ; but others have considered reason as a quality of which many creatures partake . He has been termed likewise a laughing animal ; but it is said that some men have never laughed . Perhaps man may be ...
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... called away to his shop , or his dinner , before he has well con- sidered the state of Europe . It is discovered by Reaumur , that spiders might make silk , if they could be persuaded to live in peace together . The writers of news , if ...
... called away to his shop , or his dinner , before he has well con- sidered the state of Europe . It is discovered by Reaumur , that spiders might make silk , if they could be persuaded to live in peace together . The writers of news , if ...
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... called the Knights of Malta , it was ravaged by a dragon , who in- habited a den under a rock , from which he issued forth when he was hungry or wanton , and without fear or mercy devoured men and beasts as they came in his way . Many ...
... called the Knights of Malta , it was ravaged by a dragon , who in- habited a den under a rock , from which he issued forth when he was hungry or wanton , and without fear or mercy devoured men and beasts as they came in his way . Many ...
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... called upon by some of her ac- quaintance ; and then , as we let out all the upper part of our house , and have only a little room backwards for ourselves , they either keep such a chattering , or else are calling out every moment to me ...
... called upon by some of her ac- quaintance ; and then , as we let out all the upper part of our house , and have only a little room backwards for ourselves , they either keep such a chattering , or else are calling out every moment to me ...
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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.