The Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on Several SubjectsR. and J. Dodsley, 1758 - 452 pages |
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Page 133 - I will not, therefore, undertake to mark out with any sort of precision, that idea which I would express by the word grace; and, perhaps, it can no more be clearly described, than justly defined. To give you, however, a general intimation of what I mean when I apply that term to compositions of...
Page 358 - ... both of their own conduct and that of others. IF we turn our view from active to contemplative life, we may have occafion, perhaps, to remark, that thinking is no lefs uncommon in the literary than the civil world. * The number of thofe writers who can with any juftnefs of expreffion be termed thinking authors, would not form a very copious library, tho one were to take in all of that kind which both antient and modern times have produced.
Page 64 - ... glance it may feem to lead an orator from his grand and principal aim, and tempt him to make a facrifice of fenfe to found.
Page 5 - Thofe who never contributed a fingle benefit to their own age, nor will ever be mentioned in any after-one, might by this means employ their pride and their expence in a way which might render them entertaining and ufeful both to the prefent and future times. It would require, indeed, great judgment and addrefs in the painter, to choofe and recommend fubjects...
Page 361 - ... of its opinions with greater force of conviction, than any other method we can employ. That it is not good for man to be alone...
Page 170 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 373 - ... that affords the most illustrious means of propagating a reputation, not only within our own walls, but throughout the whole compass of the Roman empire, and, indeed, to the most distant nations of the globe.
Page 180 - ... force of conviction, as that the whole is greater than any of its parts, or, that if from equals you take away equals, the remainder will be equal. And in both...
Page 70 - moft certainly, by being unreftrained in fports of this kind, they may acquire by habit, what they never would have learned from nature, and grow up into a confirmed inattention to every kind of fuffering but their own.
Page 433 - On the other hand, our modern youth are sent to the mountebank schools of certain declaimers called rhetoricians : a set of men who made their first appearance in Rome a little before the time of Cicero. And that they were by no means approved by our ancestors, plainly appears from their being. enjoined, under the censorship 1 of Crassus and Domitius, to shut up their schools of impudence, as Cicero expresses it.