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... history , and has been long branded with the title of traitor . In a lefs public manner , he broke through all her laws . He was a heap of all the most detefted vices , in the gratification of which no law was able to reftrain him . As ...
... history , and has been long branded with the title of traitor . In a lefs public manner , he broke through all her laws . He was a heap of all the most detefted vices , in the gratification of which no law was able to reftrain him . As ...
Page 162
... peut être le fruit que de la réunion du talent & du travail . Effais fur divers fujets de Litterat . & c . tom . iv . p . 4 . SECT . SECT . III . Of HISTORY . TH HERE is ( 162 ) Effais fur divers fujets de Litterat. &c. ...
... peut être le fruit que de la réunion du talent & du travail . Effais fur divers fujets de Litterat . & c . tom . iv . p . 4 . SECT . SECT . III . Of HISTORY . TH HERE is ( 162 ) Effais fur divers fujets de Litterat. &c. ...
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SECT . III . Of HISTORY . TH HERE is no fpecies of writing in which the ancients excelled us more than in hiftory . With them , it was not a dry detail of events , but a moft elegant and entertaining compofi- tion . The Greek and Roman ...
SECT . III . Of HISTORY . TH HERE is no fpecies of writing in which the ancients excelled us more than in hiftory . With them , it was not a dry detail of events , but a moft elegant and entertaining compofi- tion . The Greek and Roman ...
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... history is more entertain- ing and important , as their progress points out the efforts of the human mind , to gain the knowledge which we so much boast of . The invention of every art and fcience , however unimportant , should be ...
... history is more entertain- ing and important , as their progress points out the efforts of the human mind , to gain the knowledge which we so much boast of . The invention of every art and fcience , however unimportant , should be ...
Page 173
... history ? Sceptics , who are pleased to be wifer than the legislature of their countries , fhould keep their opinions to themfelves ; and if the religion of their fellow fubjects is not pure if ( 172 ) Mr. Hume's making fo malevolent an ...
... history ? Sceptics , who are pleased to be wifer than the legislature of their countries , fhould keep their opinions to themfelves ; and if the religion of their fellow fubjects is not pure if ( 172 ) Mr. Hume's making fo malevolent an ...
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Addiſon admirable Alcamenes Apelles becauſe bring certain taunts compofition criticifm itſelf criticiſms appeared critics is reaſonable critique elle-meme defcription deferves elegy employ themſelves fame fatirized favourite's reputa fays feeing the latent feems fentiments feveral fhaft of ridicule fhall fhould fince fome fore his criticiſms fpirit ftrokes fubject fuch proper objects genius greateſt haughty infolence hiftorian hiftory himſelf infolence of decifion injudicious and malevolent itfelf as lightly itſelf is abfurd Journal des Sçavans judgments are humour juft liger wrote modeſty moft Monody moſt muſt n'eft qu'un art nions number of thoſe paffage paffions Phidias philofophical pieces pleaſure in feeing plufieurs menfonges poem poet poetry been obliged praiſe prefent publiſhed racter raiſe his favourite's reafon reffemble le mieux ridicule of injudicious taunts and reflections thefe themſelves in pointing theſe thofe thoſe who bring Tibullus tion trifling critics ture extremely uſeful verfification Virgil Virgil's tomb world with diffidence Young here mentions
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Page 117 - A nation here I pity, and admire, Whom nobleft fentiments of glory fire, Yet taught by cuftom's force, and bigot fear, To ferve with pride, and boaft the yoke they bear : Whofe Nobles born to cringe, and to command, In courts a mean, in camps a gen'rous band ; From each low tool of pow'r content receive Thofe laws, their dreaded arms to Europe give. Whofe people vain in want, in bondage bleft, Tho...
Page 49 - Here let me bend, great Dryden, at thy shrine, Thou dearest name to all the tuneful nine. What if some dull lines in cold order creep, And with his theme the poet seems to sleep, Still, when his subject rises proud to view, With equal strength the Poet rises too. With strong invention, noblest vigour fraught, Thought still springs up and rises out of thought ; Numbers ennobling numbers in their...
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