The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Bände 5-61853 |
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... Hudibras and Don Quixote may be as effectual to cure the extravagancies of this passion as any of the old philosophers . I shall therefore publish , very speedily , the translation of a little Greek manuscript , which is sent me by a ...
... Hudibras and Don Quixote may be as effectual to cure the extravagancies of this passion as any of the old philosophers . I shall therefore publish , very speedily , the translation of a little Greek manuscript , which is sent me by a ...
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... Hudibras . * But the most notable way of managing a con- troversy , is that which we may call arguing by torture . This is a method of reasoning which has been made use of with the poor refugees , and which was so fashionable in our ...
... Hudibras . * But the most notable way of managing a con- troversy , is that which we may call arguing by torture . This is a method of reasoning which has been made use of with the poor refugees , and which was so fashionable in our ...
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... Hudibras has given why those who can talk on trifles speak with the greatest fluency ; namely , that the tongue is like . a race - horse , which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries . * Which of these reasons soever may be ...
... Hudibras has given why those who can talk on trifles speak with the greatest fluency ; namely , that the tongue is like . a race - horse , which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries . * Which of these reasons soever may be ...
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... Dispen sary ; or in doggerel , like that of Hudibras . I think where the low character is to be raised , the heroic is the proper measure ; but when a hero is to be pulled down and degraded , it is done 170 No. 249 . THE SPECTATOR .
... Dispen sary ; or in doggerel , like that of Hudibras . I think where the low character is to be raised , the heroic is the proper measure ; but when a hero is to be pulled down and degraded , it is done 170 No. 249 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... Hudibras had been set out with as much wit and humour in heroic verse as he is in doggerel , he would have made a much more agreeable fig- ure than he does ; though the generality of his readers are so wonderfully pleased with the dou ...
... Hudibras had been set out with as much wit and humour in heroic verse as he is in doggerel , he would have made a much more agreeable fig- ure than he does ; though the generality of his readers are so wonderfully pleased with the dou ...
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Seite 177 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Seite 107 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Seite 179 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Seite 181 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Seite 185 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Seite 170 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Seite 180 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Seite 180 - Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Seite 3 - The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Seite 6 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing, to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though, it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...