The Literary Miscellany, Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals: Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ...W. Hilliard, 1805 |
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... English , yet it must be of singular importance to possess a thorough knowledge of the language , in which they were originally written , in order to judge accurately and decisively of the merit and fidelity of the version , we use ...
... English , yet it must be of singular importance to possess a thorough knowledge of the language , in which they were originally written , in order to judge accurately and decisively of the merit and fidelity of the version , we use ...
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... English scholar , by a rapid perusal of books , has gained only superficial ideas ; and , by a supposed acquaintance with every science , has closed the avenues of real wisdom . Universal experience demonstrates , that no real advantage ...
... English scholar , by a rapid perusal of books , has gained only superficial ideas ; and , by a supposed acquaintance with every science , has closed the avenues of real wisdom . Universal experience demonstrates , that no real advantage ...
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... ENGLISH POETRY . IT has been questioned , and apparently with great sin- cerity , whether English poets may not rival the bards of Greece and Rome in Grecian and Roman measures . The first attempt , which was made to introduce these ...
... ENGLISH POETRY . IT has been questioned , and apparently with great sin- cerity , whether English poets may not rival the bards of Greece and Rome in Grecian and Roman measures . The first attempt , which was made to introduce these ...
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... English verse in an anonymous tract published in the year 1738. The author has given his examples in a translation of the first and fourth Eclogues of Virgil . With respect to prosody , he has not mentioned the rules , by which he has ...
... English verse in an anonymous tract published in the year 1738. The author has given his examples in a translation of the first and fourth Eclogues of Virgil . With respect to prosody , he has not mentioned the rules , by which he has ...
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... English verse ; and the reader is liable to be seduced into a similar cadence , at the end of every line . We cannot but think however , that Hexameter verse ad- mits the display of much taste and poetic skill , and is ca- pable , if ...
... English verse ; and the reader is liable to be seduced into a similar cadence , at the end of every line . We cannot but think however , that Hexameter verse ad- mits the display of much taste and poetic skill , and is ca- pable , if ...
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Page 256 - Richard; no man cried, God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 71 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 148 - God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 76 - In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Page 390 - I have to offer to you, which most nearly concerns your welfare, and upon which every good and honourable purpose of your life will assuredly turn; I mean the keeping up in your heart the true sentiments of religion. If you are not right towards God, you can never be so towards man : the noblest sentiment of the human breast is here brought to the test.
Page 288 - Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic Life began beneath the waves. Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth; From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs.
Page 288 - First HEAT from chemic dissolution springs, And gives to matter its eccentric wings; With strong REPULSION parts the exploding mass, Melts into lymph, or kindles into gas. ATTRACTION next, as earth or air subsides, The ponderous atoms from the light divides, 240 Approaching parts with quick embrace combines, Swells into spheres, and lengthens into lines.
Page 261 - Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.
Page 99 - And I will make thee like the top of a rock : thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon ; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Page 391 - ... depravation and disgrace of it. Remember the essence of religion is, a heart void of offence towards God and man ; not subtle speculative opinions, but an active vital principle of faith.