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... actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very deli- cate obferver of what occurs to him in the prefent world . He is an excellent critic , and the time of the play is his hour of butinefs ; exactly at five he pales through ...
... actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very deli- cate obferver of what occurs to him in the prefent world . He is an excellent critic , and the time of the play is his hour of butinefs ; exactly at five he pales through ...
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... actions , but very negligent of the confequences of them . It is an endless and frivolous purfuit to act by any other rule than the care of fatisfying our own minds in what we do . One would think a filent man , who concerned himself ...
... actions , but very negligent of the confequences of them . It is an endless and frivolous purfuit to act by any other rule than the care of fatisfying our own minds in what we do . One would think a filent man , who concerned himself ...
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... action of any importance , is to have a pro- fpect of public good ; and that the general tendency of our indifferent actions ought to be agreeable to the ⚫ dictates of reafon , of religion , of good- breeding ; without this a man , as ...
... action of any importance , is to have a pro- fpect of public good ; and that the general tendency of our indifferent actions ought to be agreeable to the ⚫ dictates of reafon , of religion , of good- breeding ; without this a man , as ...
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... actions , when we think ourselves moft alone ; but , in- ftead of terrifying myfelf with fuch a notion , I am wonderfully pleased to think that I am always engaged with fuch an innumerable fociety , in fearch- ing out the wonders of the ...
... actions , when we think ourselves moft alone ; but , in- ftead of terrifying myfelf with fuch a notion , I am wonderfully pleased to think that I am always engaged with fuch an innumerable fociety , in fearch- ing out the wonders of the ...
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... action . Could they make the fame ufe of their arms and legs , and inform their faces with as fignificant looks and paffions , how glo- rious would an English tragedy appear with that action , which is capable of giving a dignity to the ...
... action . Could they make the fame ufe of their arms and legs , and inform their faces with as fignificant looks and paffions , how glo- rious would an English tragedy appear with that action , which is capable of giving a dignity to the ...
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Page 53 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 304 - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was...
Page 7 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Page 53 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Page 9 - He has good blood in his veins; Tom Mirabell begot him, the rogue cheated me in that affair; that young fellow's mother used me more like a dog than any woman I ever made advances to.' This way of talking of his very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn; and I find there is not one of the company but myself, who rarely speak at all, but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called...
Page 44 - If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people.
Page 237 - My worthy friend Sir Roger is one of those who is not only at peace within himself, but beloved and esteemed by all about him. He receives a suitable tribute for his universal benevolence to mankind, in the returns of affection and good-will, which are paid him by every one that lives within his neighbourhood.
Page 281 - Let us only, if you please, to take leave of this subject, reflect upon this occasion on the vanity and transient glory of this habitable world. How by the force of one element breaking loose upon the rest, all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men are reduced to nothing. All that we admired and adored before as great...
Page 77 - The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome in the intricacy and disposition of the fable; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short of it in the moral part of the performance.
Page 79 - THE English writers of tragedy are possessed with a notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent person in distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his troubles, or made him triumph over his enemies. This error they have been led into by a ridiculous doctrine in modern criticism, that they are obliged to an equal distribution of rewards and punishments, and an impartial execution of poetical justice.^) Who were the first that established this rule, I know...