Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home. By a veteran traveller [W.R. Wilson]. |
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... Modern Dunciad : nothing could he behold therein save its censure of Bowles , the reverend libeller of Pope and defender of Byron . Yet , admitting that so far the writer was open to reproof , was that single offence to blot out every ...
... Modern Dunciad : nothing could he behold therein save its censure of Bowles , the reverend libeller of Pope and defender of Byron . Yet , admitting that so far the writer was open to reproof , was that single offence to blot out every ...
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... modern Solon - Anacreon has also laboured in the cause of Venus Pande- mos , and has constituted his muse ( certainly not one of the " chaste nine " ) the officiating high - priestess in her temple . Such is the man on whom a Whig ...
... modern Solon - Anacreon has also laboured in the cause of Venus Pande- mos , and has constituted his muse ( certainly not one of the " chaste nine " ) the officiating high - priestess in her temple . Such is the man on whom a Whig ...
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... far as to allow a man to be as strict as he pleases in his own case , they insist upon his permitting to others that laxity which he refuses to himself . He must not seek even to MODERN PHILOSOPHY . 31 discountenance what , if sincere ,
... far as to allow a man to be as strict as he pleases in his own case , they insist upon his permitting to others that laxity which he refuses to himself . He must not seek even to MODERN PHILOSOPHY . 31 discountenance what , if sincere ,
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William Rae Wilson. MODERN PHILOSOPHY . 31 discountenance what , if sincere , he cannot but condemn , and be solicitous , as far as possible , to check . Were we to give credit to some philosophers , human nature has been much ...
William Rae Wilson. MODERN PHILOSOPHY . 31 discountenance what , if sincere , he cannot but condemn , and be solicitous , as far as possible , to check . Were we to give credit to some philosophers , human nature has been much ...
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... modern writers of prose fiction draw their materials ? -how they fre quently use them I will not say ; and why else should we delight to contemplate pictures which , so far from reflecting men and manners as we are acquainted with them ...
... modern writers of prose fiction draw their materials ? -how they fre quently use them I will not say ; and why else should we delight to contemplate pictures which , so far from reflecting men and manners as we are acquainted with them ...
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Page 33 - I thought so ; but know that speaking well of all mankind is the worst kind of detraction ; for it takes away the reputation of the few good men in the world by making all alike.
Page 2 - A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call it Attic salt ; To JEFFREY go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie...
Page 19 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies...
Page 262 - Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more admire the sleight of hand.
Page 22 - Bertram, et id omne genus, viz., that of ministering to the depraved appetite for excitement, and, though in a far less degree, creating sympathy for the vicious and infamous, solely because the fiend is daring. Not twenty lines of Scott's poetry will ever reach posterity ; it has relation to nothing.
Page 313 - ... greater taste for the books of the ancients than for our own, on the simple ground that, being the first, the ancients are nearer to Nature, and have more native genius. Whatever La Motte and the Abbe Terrasson may say to the contrary, there is no real progress in reason in the human race, because what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other ; for as all minds always start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is lost for teaching one's self how...
Page 221 - ... no one who has not seen it can form any conception ; but when the dancers are females, it is not the best means which could be employed to inspire notions of delicacy in the minds of those ladies who are among the spectators. How they can, not only witness it without a blush mantling their cheeks, but talk of :it in terms of unqualified admiration to their acquaintances of the other sex, must appear passing strange to those who have not mixed in the society of the metropolis. In the provincial...
Page 229 - Sopra gli altari e su le chiese, a gara Le giuste fiamme lor tutte saettano. O pittori, o pittori, il ciel prepara Forse al vostro fallir le pene ultrici, E la tardanza ad aggravarle impara. Da voi di zelo e di pietà mendici, Ne' dì festivi a lavorar s'indugia, E si lascian le messe ei sagri offici.
Page 218 - I marked her increased agitation : I saw her cheeks flush, her eyes glisten, her bosom flutter, as if with sighs, I could not overhear, till at length, overpowered with emotion, she turned away her head, and covered her eyes with her hand.
Page 25 - Unsheaths his wings, and through the woods and glades Scatters a marvellous splendour. On he wheels, Blazing by fits as from excess of joy, Each gush of light a gush of ecstasy ; Nor unaccompanied; thousands that fling A radiance all their own, not of the day, Thousands as bright as he, from dusk till dawn...