Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Količina 2T. Davies, 1774 - 375 strani |
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... Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield , 1748 , 30 Preface to the Folio Edition of Dr. Johnson's Dic- tionary 55 Propofals for printing the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare Preface to Shakespeare , published 1765 87 95 Preliminary Difcourfe to ...
... Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield , 1748 , 30 Preface to the Folio Edition of Dr. Johnson's Dic- tionary 55 Propofals for printing the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare Preface to Shakespeare , published 1765 87 95 Preliminary Difcourfe to ...
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... Excellence and Value of this great Collection , and promote the Knowledge of fcarce Books , and elegant Editions . For this Purpose Men of Letters are engaged , who cannot even be supplied with Amanuenfes , but at an Ex- even [ 10 ]
... Excellence and Value of this great Collection , and promote the Knowledge of fcarce Books , and elegant Editions . For this Purpose Men of Letters are engaged , who cannot even be supplied with Amanuenfes , but at an Ex- even [ 10 ]
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... Letters , than those of the Thuanian , Hein- fian , or Barberinian Libraries , it may not be impro- per to exhibit a general Account of the different Claffes , as they are naturally divided by the feveral Sciences . By this Method we ...
... Letters , than those of the Thuanian , Hein- fian , or Barberinian Libraries , it may not be impro- per to exhibit a general Account of the different Claffes , as they are naturally divided by the feveral Sciences . By this Method we ...
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... Letters can declare ; and , perhaps , there are very few who have not fometimes valued as new Discoveries , made by themfelves , thofe Obferva- tions , which have long fince been published , and of which the World therefore will refufe ...
... Letters can declare ; and , perhaps , there are very few who have not fometimes valued as new Discoveries , made by themfelves , thofe Obferva- tions , which have long fince been published , and of which the World therefore will refufe ...
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... Letters ; and if this Effort for the Prevention of another Lofs of the fame Kind fhould be disadvantageous to him , no Man will hereafter willingly rifque his Fortune in the Cause of Learning . A DIS- • A DISSERTATION ON AUTHORS . Seire ...
... Letters ; and if this Effort for the Prevention of another Lofs of the fame Kind fhould be disadvantageous to him , no Man will hereafter willingly rifque his Fortune in the Cause of Learning . A DIS- • A DISSERTATION ON AUTHORS . Seire ...
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Stran 62 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Stran 282 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Stran 37 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Stran 113 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Stran 86 - There is, however, proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature.
Stran 32 - To explain requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition.
Stran 71 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Stran 77 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Stran 99 - The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.
Stran 282 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...