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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... sometimes known to try various con- tortions , or inclinations of the body , flattering themselves that they can fwallow in one posture that liquor , which they find in another to repel their lips . • Yet fuch folly is not peculiar to ...
... sometimes known to try various con- tortions , or inclinations of the body , flattering themselves that they can fwallow in one posture that liquor , which they find in another to repel their lips . • Yet fuch folly is not peculiar to ...
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... sometimes granted to very flight preten- fions ; loft fometimes by fecurity and negligence , and fometimes by too diligent endeavours to retain it . A fuccefsful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame , whether he ...
... sometimes granted to very flight preten- fions ; loft fometimes by fecurity and negligence , and fometimes by too diligent endeavours to retain it . A fuccefsful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame , whether he ...
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... sometimes with merriment , the dif- ferent temper with which the fame man reads a printed and manuscript performance . When a book is once in the hands of the publick , it is con- fidered as permanent and unalterable ; and the reader ...
... sometimes with merriment , the dif- ferent temper with which the fame man reads a printed and manuscript performance . When a book is once in the hands of the publick , it is con- fidered as permanent and unalterable ; and the reader ...
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... them of importance . DRYDEN , whofe warmth of fancy , and hafte of compofition , very frequently hurried him into inac- curacies , curacies , heard himself sometimes exposed to ridicule for having N ° 31 . 201 THE RAMBLER .
... them of importance . DRYDEN , whofe warmth of fancy , and hafte of compofition , very frequently hurried him into inac- curacies , curacies , heard himself sometimes exposed to ridicule for having N ° 31 . 201 THE RAMBLER .
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Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. curacies , heard himself sometimes exposed to ridicule for having faid in one of his tragedies , I follow fate , which does too fast pursue . That no man could at once follow and be followed was , it may be ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. curacies , heard himself sometimes exposed to ridicule for having faid in one of his tragedies , I follow fate , which does too fast pursue . That no man could at once follow and be followed was , it may be ...
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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...