 He afterwards proceeded to take notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public, by reprehending those vices which are too trivial for the chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit.  The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs - Page 153by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1836Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...ridicule by the meanness of their condition and circumstances. He afterwards proceeded to take notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public,...chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the cognisance of the pulpit. He then advised me to prosecute my undertaking with cheerfulness ; and assured... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...ridicule by the meanness of their condition and circumstances. He afterwards proceeded lo take notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public,...chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the cognisance of the pulpit. He then advised me to prosecute my undertaking with cheerfulness ; f,t:d... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 406 pages
...and imagination. If our ESSAYISTS have excelled in jiumour, they owe their materials and their * ' Too trivial for the chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit.' Spec. No. 34, one of the purest specimens of Addisonian humour. has harmonized this observation; '... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1809 - 382 pages
...such subjects, as they presented themselves in the people whom * Johnson's Life of Congreve. •j- ' Too trivial for the chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the cognisance of the pulpit.* Spec. No. 34f one of the purest specimens of Acklisonian humour. Pope lias... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...ridicule, by the meanness of their conditions and circumstances. He afterwards proceeded to take notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public,...too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit. He then advised me to), prosecute my undertaking with cheerfulness, and assured me, that whoever might... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...He afterwards proceeded to take notice of the great use this paper might be of to the v .r.' .:.iT public, by reprehending those vices which are too...too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit. He then advised me to prosecute my undertaking with cheerfulness, and assured me, that whoever might... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...their conditions and circumstances. He alter-. »ardä proceeded to take notice of the great ose thi« paper might be of to the public, by reprehending those vices which are too trivial for libchastisement of the law, and too fantastical for ibe cognizance of the pulpit. He then advised mr... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...ridicule, by the meanness of their conditions and circumstances. He afterwards proceeded to take notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public,...too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit. He then advised me to prosecute my undertaking with cheerfulness, and assured me, that whoever might... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...genius and imagination. If our ESSAYISTS have excelled in humour, they owe their materials and their * 'Too trivial for the chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit.' Spec. No. 34, cne of the purest specimens of Addisonian humour. Pope has harmonized this observation;... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...ridicule, by the meanness of their conditions and circumstances. He afterwards proceeded to take notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public,...too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit. He then advised me to prosecute my undertaking with cheerfulness, and assured me, that whoever might... | |
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