Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III, Količina 2Baudry's European Library, 1846 - 301 strani |
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... remarks are almost exclusively confined . As for the want of novelty , nothing can be more perilous than running after discoveries on the merits of works that have been before the world for almost a century , and on which the most ...
... remarks are almost exclusively confined . As for the want of novelty , nothing can be more perilous than running after discoveries on the merits of works that have been before the world for almost a century , and on which the most ...
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... the truth of the foregoing remark . " This traveller has consulted his senses and not his imagina- tion . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his 18 JOHNSON .
... the truth of the foregoing remark . " This traveller has consulted his senses and not his imagina- tion . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his 18 JOHNSON .
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... remark was , " De- pend upon it , he will soon be drawn out from his retreat . " 66 Nothing can be more painful than to contemplate the struggles in which these years of his penury were passed , more especially the earlier ones , after ...
... remark was , " De- pend upon it , he will soon be drawn out from his retreat . " 66 Nothing can be more painful than to contemplate the struggles in which these years of his penury were passed , more especially the earlier ones , after ...
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... remark , as might well be supposed , that Newton being entirely right , his reviewer is wholly wrong . Of the Prefaces to his own and other men's works , it is not necessary to speak in detail . The most ambitious is that to the ...
... remark , as might well be supposed , that Newton being entirely right , his reviewer is wholly wrong . Of the Prefaces to his own and other men's works , it is not necessary to speak in detail . The most ambitious is that to the ...
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... remarks on the great dramatist are generally speaking sound and judicious ; many of them may even , on a sub- ject sufficiently hackneyed , be deemed original . The boldness with which his many critical objections were offered ...
... remarks on the great dramatist are generally speaking sound and judicious ; many of them may even , on a sub- ject sufficiently hackneyed , be deemed original . The boldness with which his many critical objections were offered ...
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Stran 162 - summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was
Stran 162 - on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several
Stran 3 - find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues Here are no Hottentots without religious piety or articulable language, no Chinese perfectly polite
Stran 31 - to think naturally and express forcibly. He taught us that it was possible to reason in rhyme. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden;
Stran 3 - human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Stran 169 - Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured balm upon my bruises, by condescending once or twice in the course of the evening to talk with me. The great historian was light and playful,
Stran 235 - was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had given an indirect solution of the problem concerning the Precession ; the Nutation had only been by
Stran 156 - Yet listen to his moan over the want of that sovereign authority which a social position exercises, but so as to make its service perfect freedom compared with the slavery of nullity and ennui. " While so many of my acquaintance were married, or in Parliament, or advancing with a rapid step in the various roads
Stran 169 - Johnson. Their manners and tastes, both in writing and conversation, were as different as their habiliments. On the day I first sat down with Johnson, in his rusty brown suit, and his black worsted stockings. Gibbon was placed opposite to me in a suit of flowered velvet, with a
Stran 22 - amidst the murmurs of envy and the gratulations of applause; attended from pleasure to pleasure by the great, the sprightly, and the vain; their regard solicited by the obsequiousness of gallantry, the gayety of wit, and the timidity of love;'