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... critic . The matter is a trifle ; but , would he venture to pronounce at this rate upon one of greater moment ? I know nothing more contemptible in a writer , than the charac- ter of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and ...
... critic . The matter is a trifle ; but , would he venture to pronounce at this rate upon one of greater moment ? I know nothing more contemptible in a writer , than the charac- ter of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and ...
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... critics . There is a person styled Dr. Bentley , who has written near a thou- fand pages of immenfe erudition , giving a full and true account of a certain fquab- ble of wonderful importance between him- felf and a bookfeller * : he is ...
... critics . There is a person styled Dr. Bentley , who has written near a thou- fand pages of immenfe erudition , giving a full and true account of a certain fquab- ble of wonderful importance between him- felf and a bookfeller * : he is ...
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... critics : the school of falivation : the school of hobby - horses : the school of poetry : * the school of tops : the school of Spleen : the school of gaming : with many others , too tedious to recount . No perfon to be admitted member ...
... critics : the school of falivation : the school of hobby - horses : the school of poetry : * the school of tops : the school of Spleen : the school of gaming : with many others , too tedious to recount . No perfon to be admitted member ...
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... critics , as I think they are called , which ftand ready opened to devour them . Then , the boxes are built round , and raised to a level with the fcene , in de- ference to the ladies ; because , that large portion of wit , laid out in ...
... critics , as I think they are called , which ftand ready opened to devour them . Then , the boxes are built round , and raised to a level with the fcene , in de- ference to the ladies ; because , that large portion of wit , laid out in ...
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... they did . In imitation of this , Pe- ter , having run fomething be- hind - hand in the world , obtain- ed leave of a certain lord , & c . W. Wotton . SECT . SECT . III . A digreffion concerning critics . LTOUGH 86 A TALE OF A TU B.
... they did . In imitation of this , Pe- ter , having run fomething be- hind - hand in the world , obtain- ed leave of a certain lord , & c . W. Wotton . SECT . SECT . III . A digreffion concerning critics . LTOUGH 86 A TALE OF A TU B.
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Page 173 - In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes gravely back with informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.
Page 140 - Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail. For, to enter the Palace of Learning at the great Gate, requires an Expence of Time and Forms; therefore Men of much Haste and little Ceremony, are content to get in by the Back-Door.
Page 24 - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...
Page 4 - Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Page 245 - ... defence. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below : when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose curiosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he...
Page 57 - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
Page 312 - Too intense a contemplation is not the business of flesh and blood; it must by the necessary course of things, in a little time let go its hold and fall into matter. Lovers, for the sake of celestial converse, are but another sort of Platonics who pretend to see stars and heaven in ladies...
Page 246 - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts without designing them for the noblest ends.
Page 171 - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
Page 45 - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.