An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 pages |
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... charms , passing and repassing ' continually before one , without daring to touch them ! To touch is so na- tural : do not children endeavour to ' touch every thing they see ; - and I- ' Whence it appears that this frantic gentleman ...
... charms , passing and repassing ' continually before one , without daring to touch them ! To touch is so na- tural : do not children endeavour to ' touch every thing they see ; - and I- ' Whence it appears that this frantic gentleman ...
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... charms of intellectual refinement , or who has been once initiated in the knowledge that works of a rational description con- tain and an attachment to the former is so incompatible with a relish for the latter , that a professed reader ...
... charms of intellectual refinement , or who has been once initiated in the knowledge that works of a rational description con- tain and an attachment to the former is so incompatible with a relish for the latter , that a professed reader ...
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... charms were far from alluring . In this terrific crisis of his fate , Johnson found him in the act of meditating on the me- lancholy alternative before him ; and casting his eye over the MS . , saw some- thing that gave him hope , and ...
... charms were far from alluring . In this terrific crisis of his fate , Johnson found him in the act of meditating on the me- lancholy alternative before him ; and casting his eye over the MS . , saw some- thing that gave him hope , and ...
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... charms for every laudable variety of taste , and for each degree of under- standing . To their matter , and the har- monious numbers in which it is convey- ed , there exists something responsive in every bosom no preparative erudition ...
... charms for every laudable variety of taste , and for each degree of under- standing . To their matter , and the har- monious numbers in which it is convey- ed , there exists something responsive in every bosom no preparative erudition ...
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... charms , has been considered by the best judges as the most complete ever chosen by a dramatic poet , and most calculated to produce one of the chief ends of tragedy , that of affecting the mind through the mediums of terror and pity ...
... charms , has been considered by the best judges as the most complete ever chosen by a dramatic poet , and most calculated to produce one of the chief ends of tragedy , that of affecting the mind through the mediums of terror and pity ...
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Page 176 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
Page 175 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 168 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; — The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain — A new creation rescued from his reign.
Page 167 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The...
Page 181 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
Page 188 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
Page 174 - As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 189 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
Page 183 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.
Page 188 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.