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... esteem . " But since my chief intention in the following sheets , is to amuse , as well as inform the reader , I presume , that it will not be judged im- proper or absurd in me , to take advantage of this miscellaneous taste which now ...
... esteem . " But since my chief intention in the following sheets , is to amuse , as well as inform the reader , I presume , that it will not be judged im- proper or absurd in me , to take advantage of this miscellaneous taste which now ...
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... esteem , I can say very impartially that I have not observed among any so much true genius as among the English ; no where more sharpness of wit , more pleasant- ness of humour , more range of fancy , more pe- netration of thought or ...
... esteem , I can say very impartially that I have not observed among any so much true genius as among the English ; no where more sharpness of wit , more pleasant- ness of humour , more range of fancy , more pe- netration of thought or ...
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... esteem ; and that many men were as passionately enamoured by the charms of Sappho's wit and poetry , as by those of beauty in Flora or Thais : for not only beauty gives love , but love gives beauty to the object that raises it ; and if ...
... esteem ; and that many men were as passionately enamoured by the charms of Sappho's wit and poetry , as by those of beauty in Flora or Thais : for not only beauty gives love , but love gives beauty to the object that raises it ; and if ...
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... esteem- ed , there cannot be a greater testimony given , than what has been by some observed , that not only the greatest masters have found in his works the best and truest principles of all their sciences or arts , but that the ...
... esteem- ed , there cannot be a greater testimony given , than what has been by some observed , that not only the greatest masters have found in his works the best and truest principles of all their sciences or arts , but that the ...
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... esteem their true interest . There has been at all times a sort of narrow- minded philosophers , who have thought to set this difference to rights by conquering nature in themselves . A primitive father , and founder * among these saw ...
... esteem their true interest . There has been at all times a sort of narrow- minded philosophers , who have thought to set this difference to rights by conquering nature in themselves . A primitive father , and founder * among these saw ...
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à corps perdu actions admirable advantage affections agreeable antient beauty Beelzebub Ben Jonson better body born for love Cæsar called cern chuse common compass courage Cowley danger death deceive defects delight disposition divine Domitian envy Epicurus ESSAY esteem evil excellent fancy fear force fortune friends genius happy honour Horace human humour imagination industry judgment Julius Cæsar kind laws less liberty live look Lord Bacon Lord Clarendon Lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind mean ment mind miscellany mour nation nature ness never object observed occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons philosophers pleasure poetry poets praise princes reason rience Seneca the elder Septimus Severus shew Sir William Temple sort spirit suspicions taste temper thing thought tion true truth turn vanity verses Virgil virtue wisdom wise wonder writing youth
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Page 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 118 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 18 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Page 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Page 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Page 16 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Page 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Page 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.