Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 2 |
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... readers , has arisen from the INVENTIVE POWERS which our author has , so copiously displayed . His oriental , allegoric and domestic , tales , form the most striking feature of the work , and have , by their number and merit , very ...
... readers , has arisen from the INVENTIVE POWERS which our author has , so copiously displayed . His oriental , allegoric and domestic , tales , form the most striking feature of the work , and have , by their number and merit , very ...
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... reader . It is a detail of which , in the luxury and dissipation of a large metropolis , there are , we have reason to apprehend , numerous * counterparts . To expose the folly of wanton rudeness , and indiscriminate familiarity ; to ...
... reader . It is a detail of which , in the luxury and dissipation of a large metropolis , there are , we have reason to apprehend , numerous * counterparts . To expose the folly of wanton rudeness , and indiscriminate familiarity ; to ...
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... readers . " In a series of familiar letters between the same friends for thirty years , their whole life , as it were , passes in review before us ; we live with them , we hear them talk , we mark the vigour of life , the ardour of ...
... readers . " In a series of familiar letters between the same friends for thirty years , their whole life , as it were , passes in review before us ; we live with them , we hear them talk , we mark the vigour of life , the ardour of ...
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... reader will immedi- ately perceive , is taken from the last number of the Adventurer . To the Memory of John Hawkesworth , LL . D. Who died the 16th of November , 1775 , aged 58 years . That he lived ornamental and useful To society in ...
... reader will immedi- ately perceive , is taken from the last number of the Adventurer . To the Memory of John Hawkesworth , LL . D. Who died the 16th of November , 1775 , aged 58 years . That he lived ornamental and useful To society in ...
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... readers . The reception of Clarissa upon the Continent was not inferior to that which it had experienced on its native soil . It was honoured with two versions into French ; one by the Abbé Prevost , and another by Le Tourneur ; and ...
... readers . The reception of Clarissa upon the Continent was not inferior to that which it had experienced on its native soil . It was honoured with two versions into French ; one by the Abbé Prevost , and another by Le Tourneur ; and ...
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Page 222 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, * and only took snuff.
Page 53 - Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage., naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain.
Page 462 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 419 - Wales : together with their provisional allowance during confinement ; as reported to the society for the discharge and relief of small debtors, in April, May, June, &c., 18oo. 4to., 18oo. An account of the rise, progress and present state of the society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England and Wales.
Page 42 - I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an offence was either taken or given, at the very time that the heart of the chider or repulser was open before me, overflowing with esteem and affection, and the fair repulser, dreading to be taken at her word, directing this word, or that expression, to be softened or changed. One, highly gratified with her lover's fervour and vows of everlasting love, has said, when I have asked her direction, ' I cannot tell you what to write ; but (her heart...
Page 110 - Haste, Fancy, from the scenes of folly, To meet the matron Melancholy, Goddess of the tearful eye, That loves to fold her arms, and sigh Let us with silent footsteps go To charnels, and the house of woe ; To gothic churches, vaults, and tombs, Where each sad night some virgin comes, With throbbing breast, and faded cheek, Her promised bridegroom's urn to seek...
Page 272 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 273 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story) and that, on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 470 - TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption, lay thine hand ! — let me decay, Like the expiring lamp, unseen, away. And softly go to slumber with the dead.
Page 231 - With sleek appearance, and with ambling pace, And type of vacant head with vacant face, The Proteus Hill put in his modest plea— " Let Favour speak for others, Worth for me...