The RamblerJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... she may boaft her phyfick of the mind , her catharticks of vice , or lenitives of paffion . I fhall , therefore , while I am yet but lightly touched with the fymptoms of the writer's malady , endeavour to fortify myself against the ...
... she may boaft her phyfick of the mind , her catharticks of vice , or lenitives of paffion . I fhall , therefore , while I am yet but lightly touched with the fymptoms of the writer's malady , endeavour to fortify myself against the ...
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... she touched it with the amaranthine end of the scepter , and configned it over to immortality . But it more frequently happened , that in the works , which required her infpection , there was some imposture attempted ; that falfe ...
... she touched it with the amaranthine end of the scepter , and configned it over to immortality . But it more frequently happened , that in the works , which required her infpection , there was some imposture attempted ; that falfe ...
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... she was weary of attending fuch doubtful claims , and , for fear of ufing improperly the fcepter of JUSTICE , referred the cause to be confidered by TIME . The proceedings of TIME , though very dilatory , were , fome few caprices ...
... she was weary of attending fuch doubtful claims , and , for fear of ufing improperly the fcepter of JUSTICE , referred the cause to be confidered by TIME . The proceedings of TIME , though very dilatory , were , fome few caprices ...
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... she may often fee my face ; for I am of her opinion , that a diurnal writer ought to view the world , and that he who neglects his cotemporaries , may be , with juftice , neglected by them . " LADY << " C LADY Racket fends compliments ...
... she may often fee my face ; for I am of her opinion , that a diurnal writer ought to view the world , and that he who neglects his cotemporaries , may be , with juftice , neglected by them . " LADY << " C LADY Racket fends compliments ...
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... She longs to " fee the torch of truth produced at an affembly , " and to admire the charming luftre it will " throw on the jewels , complexions , and behaviour " of every dear creature there . " It is a rule with me to receive every ...
... She longs to " fee the torch of truth produced at an affembly , " and to admire the charming luftre it will " throw on the jewels , complexions , and behaviour " of every dear creature there . " It is a rule with me to receive every ...
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Seite 26 - In narratives, where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Seite 415 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Seite 413 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.
Seite 440 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
Seite 416 - We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour, and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
Seite 22 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself...
Seite 381 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Seite 22 - ... among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his...
Seite 14 - The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths, by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions...
Seite 415 - At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He...