Miscellanies of literature, Band 21840 |
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... opinion among the decriers of James I .. Summary of his character 332 336 344 ....... 345 349 Miscellanists .. Prefaces . 393 398 Style . Goldsmith and Johnson . Self - characters .. 366 On Reading ... 368 by the deaths of the Authors ...
... opinion among the decriers of James I .. Summary of his character 332 336 344 ....... 345 349 Miscellanists .. Prefaces . 393 398 Style . Goldsmith and Johnson . Self - characters .. 366 On Reading ... 368 by the deaths of the Authors ...
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... opinions as well as events - to discuss as well as to narrate - to show how accepted truths become suspi- cious , or to confirm what has hitherto rested in obscure uncer- tainty , and to balance contending opinions and opposite facts ...
... opinions as well as events - to discuss as well as to narrate - to show how accepted truths become suspi- cious , or to confirm what has hitherto rested in obscure uncer- tainty , and to balance contending opinions and opposite facts ...
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... opinions of others , and a modest diffidence of your own , this unpromising circumstance of your education is so far ... opinion of his motive for this sudden conversion from Attorneyship to Divinity ; for it must not be concealed , in ...
... opinions of others , and a modest diffidence of your own , this unpromising circumstance of your education is so far ... opinion of his motive for this sudden conversion from Attorneyship to Divinity ; for it must not be concealed , in ...
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... opinions which floated about him , has drawn a full - length figure . He accounts for Warburton's early motive in taking the cassock , as being " 6 thereto drawn By some faint omens of the Lawn , And on the truly Christian plan , To ...
... opinions which floated about him , has drawn a full - length figure . He accounts for Warburton's early motive in taking the cassock , as being " 6 thereto drawn By some faint omens of the Lawn , And on the truly Christian plan , To ...
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... opinion of BENTLEY , when he saw " The Divine Legation , " was a sen- sible one . This man , " said he , " has a monstrous appetite , with a very bad digestion . " The Warburtonians seemed to consider his great work , as the Bible by ...
... opinion of BENTLEY , when he saw " The Divine Legation , " was a sen- sible one . This man , " said he , " has a monstrous appetite , with a very bad digestion . " The Warburtonians seemed to consider his great work , as the Bible by ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accused Addison admirable adversary Æneid alludes ancient Anthony Wood appears Aristophanes Aristotle attack Bentley Bishop Bolingbroke Boyle called Cantenac censure character Church Cibber comedy considered contempt controversy court criticism curious Curll declared discovered Divine domestic Dunciad edition favour feelings genius give Gondibert hath Hill Hobbes honour Horace human humour imagined invention James Job Throckmorton Johnson king king's labour learned letters Leviathan libel literary quarrel literature lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Martin master mind Molière monarch nation nature never observed once opinions original party passion perpetual Phalaris philosopher poem poet political Pope Pope's preface preserved prince principles printed published Puritans racter reader reign replied ribaldry ridicule Royal Society satire satirist says secret seems Sir John Hill sovereign spirit Stubbe studies style taste things thought tion truth verses volume Warburton write written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 9 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Seite 78 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 358 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Seite 146 - If thou darest to print any lie or libel against Dr. Parker, by the Eternal God I will cut thy throat.
Seite 290 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council...
Seite 318 - His lieutenant here ye should remain : Reward the just ; be steadfast, true, and plain ; Repress the proud, maintaining aye the right ; Walk always so as ever in His sight, Who guards the godly, plaguing the profane. And so ye shall in princely virtues shine, Resembling right your mighty King divine.
Seite 316 - Eight of the best learned in the law to advise him for his cause,' our great lawyer thanked the king, ' but he knew himself to be accounted to have as much skill in the law as any man in England, and therefore needed no such help, nor feared to be judged by the law.
Seite 195 - This was the Fell whom it was so difficult to assign a reason for not liking : I don't like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But I don't like thee, Dr.
Seite 266 - Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again.
Seite 203 - But all which thou hast been And all that youth can be thou'rt yet, So fully still dost thou Enjoy the manhood, and the bloom of wit, And all the natural heat, but not the fever too. So contraries on Etna's top conspire, Here hoary frosts, and by them breaks out fire. A secure peace the faithful neighbours keep, Th' emboldened snow next to the flame does sleep.