The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with NotesT. Becket, 1808 - 579 pages |
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Page ix
... language of affectation and the cant of sensibility . The Numby pamby school of the Crusca must not be suffered to revive either in verse or in prose . On the subject of the present mode of Biography and Memoir- writing , I am happy to ...
... language of affectation and the cant of sensibility . The Numby pamby school of the Crusca must not be suffered to revive either in verse or in prose . On the subject of the present mode of Biography and Memoir- writing , I am happy to ...
Page xi
... language and metaphors verbatim . It is unnecessary to mark the pages rom Mr Hayley's work whence they are all taken . As to the publication itself , the letters of a great Poet must al- ways command attention on their first appearance ...
... language and metaphors verbatim . It is unnecessary to mark the pages rom Mr Hayley's work whence they are all taken . As to the publication itself , the letters of a great Poet must al- ways command attention on their first appearance ...
Page xv
... language of poetry and of truth ; Sancta ad vos Anima , atque istius inscia culpæ , Descendam doctorum haud unquam oblitus avorum . But in a composition , like the Pursuits of Literature , when judgment is to be given on men , their ...
... language of poetry and of truth ; Sancta ad vos Anima , atque istius inscia culpæ , Descendam doctorum haud unquam oblitus avorum . But in a composition , like the Pursuits of Literature , when judgment is to be given on men , their ...
Page xvi
... language . Formerly indeed it was esteemed a crime to scatter abroad ambiguous expres- sions among the people . But now when all govern- ments ( n ) It reminds me of a book written by Sir John Birkenhead in the time of the civil wars ...
... language . Formerly indeed it was esteemed a crime to scatter abroad ambiguous expres- sions among the people . But now when all govern- ments ( n ) It reminds me of a book written by Sir John Birkenhead in the time of the civil wars ...
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... language . And now , when Englishmen are to be warned against the introduction of the horrid system , no appeal is to be made to the common feelings and passions of our nature , ( this it seems , is declamation ; ) no scenes of terror ...
... language . And now , when Englishmen are to be warned against the introduction of the horrid system , no appeal is to be made to the common feelings and passions of our nature , ( this it seems , is declamation ; ) no scenes of terror ...
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Page 256 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 257 - And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see ; and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; that the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
Page 453 - This relation will not be wholly without its use, if those, who languish under any part of his sufferings, shall be enabled to fortify their patience, by reflecting that they feel only those afflictions from which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him; or...
Page 193 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 254 - I take to be the discovery of the Certainty or Probability of such Propositions or Truths, which the Mind arrives at by Deductions made from such Ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural Faculties, viz. by Sensation or Reflection.
Page 401 - Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours : I am willing to give this for that.
Page 407 - Critics I saw, that other names deface, And fix their own, with labour, in their place : Their own, like others, soon their place resign'd, Or disappear'd. and left the first behind. Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone, But felt th...
Page 107 - The notes I could wish to be very large, in what relates to the persons concerned; for I have long observed that twenty miles from London nobody understands hints, initial letters, or town facts and passages; and in a few years not even those who live in London.
Page 453 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 247 - Stra. 834. the court would not suffer it to be debated, whether to write against Christianity was punishable in the temporal courts at common law? Wood, therefore, 409. ventures still to vary the phrase, and says " that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,