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" The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition... "
The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq - Page 292
1728
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The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Volume 2

Tatler - 1754 - 338 pages
...Extremes, he has fomething in him very great and very mean: A fkilful Artift may draw an excellent Piflure of him in either of thefe Views. The fineft Authors...in her a generous Ambition, feed her with Hopes of Immortality and Perfection, and do all they can to widen the Partition bewveen lhe Virtuous and the...
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The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse ...

1773 - 394 pages
...creature made up of different extremes,- he has fomething in him very great and very mean : a fkilful artift may draw an excellent pifture of : him in either...•antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous fide. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the foul, raife in her a generous ambition, feed her with...
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The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 2

1709 - 388 pages
...he has fomething in Elm very great and very mean : A flcilful artift may draw an excellent picture of him in either of thefe views. The fineft Authors...antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous fide. They They cultivate the natural grandeur of the Soul, raife in her a generous ambition, feed...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...great and very mean : a skilful artist may draw an. excellent picture of him in either view. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous feitkm, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they...
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The British Essayists;: Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 pages
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the ..., Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 pages
...artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either view. The finest authors of antiquity have tuken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they...
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The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface ..., Volume 3

Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they...
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The Tatler, Volume 2

1822 - 496 pages
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and ..., Volume 3

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 332 pages
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they...
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The British Essayists: Tatler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 410 pages
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they...
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