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Page vi
... fair and upright character . " 1732 , Junii 15. Undecim aureos deposui , quo die , quidquid ante matris funus ( quod serum sit precor ) de paternis bonis sperare licet , viginti scilicet libras , accepi . Usque adeo mihi mea fortuna ...
... fair and upright character . " 1732 , Junii 15. Undecim aureos deposui , quo die , quidquid ante matris funus ( quod serum sit precor ) de paternis bonis sperare licet , viginti scilicet libras , accepi . Usque adeo mihi mea fortuna ...
Page xxiv
... fair to think of his tragedy of Irene , which was his whole stock on his first arrival in town , in the year 1737 . That play was , accordingly , put into rehearsal in January , 1749 . As a precursor to prepare the way , and to awaken ...
... fair to think of his tragedy of Irene , which was his whole stock on his first arrival in town , in the year 1737 . That play was , accordingly , put into rehearsal in January , 1749 . As a precursor to prepare the way , and to awaken ...
Page xlviii
... fair copy . Whatever may be the logic or eloquence of the False Alarm , the house of com- mons have since erased the resolution from the journals . But whether they have not left materials for a future controversy may be made a question ...
... fair copy . Whatever may be the logic or eloquence of the False Alarm , the house of com- mons have since erased the resolution from the journals . But whether they have not left materials for a future controversy may be made a question ...
Page li
... fair apology , in the last paragraph of his book , avowing with candour : " That he may have been surprised by modes of life , and appearances of nature , that are familiar to men of wider survey , and more varied conversation . Novelty ...
... fair apology , in the last paragraph of his book , avowing with candour : " That he may have been surprised by modes of life , and appearances of nature , that are familiar to men of wider survey , and more varied conversation . Novelty ...
Page lxvi
... fair to take , from this in- cident , a hint for a moral essay ; and , though no more was intended , Garrick , we are told , remembered it with uneasiness . He was also hurt , that his Lichfield friend did not think lxvi AN ESSAY ON THE ...
... fair to take , from this in- cident , a hint for a moral essay ; and , though no more was intended , Garrick , we are told , remembered it with uneasiness . He was also hurt , that his Lichfield friend did not think lxvi AN ESSAY ON THE ...
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Page 16 - Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page xxxv - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 20 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear.
Page 17 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 226 - They are surely happy," said the prince, "who have all these conveniences, of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts." "The Europeans," answered Imlac, "are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Page 221 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Page 199 - The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part.
Page 212 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once •with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Page 267 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails' as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Page 241 - He speaks, and attention watches his lips. He reasons, and conviction closes his periods. This man shall be my future guide : I will learn his doctrines, and imitate his life." " Be not too hasty," said Imlac, " to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality : they discourse like angels, but they live like men.