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... taste , as a guide to excellence , should always , at least , retain the wish to please it by the effect of his pieces- even while he may differ very widely from common opinions , with regard to the means to be employed . This is a ...
... taste , as a guide to excellence , should always , at least , retain the wish to please it by the effect of his pieces- even while he may differ very widely from common opinions , with regard to the means to be employed . This is a ...
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... taste for theology , could give the whole force of his mind to its contempla- tions that these were the days , when a generous enthusiasm for the glories of his profession , met with nothing to stifle or vul- garise it - that these were ...
... taste for theology , could give the whole force of his mind to its contempla- tions that these were the days , when a generous enthusiasm for the glories of his profession , met with nothing to stifle or vul- garise it - that these were ...
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... taste , and are actuated by a kin- dred ambition . Transport the possessor of such a mind to a town , and he there meets with much to arouse him out of all this dor- mancy . He will find his way to men , whose views and pursuits are in ...
... taste , and are actuated by a kin- dred ambition . Transport the possessor of such a mind to a town , and he there meets with much to arouse him out of all this dor- mancy . He will find his way to men , whose views and pursuits are in ...
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... taste and all their generous aspirings after literature . " NOTICES OF REPRINTS OF CURIOUS OLD BOOKS , No V. The Life and Errors of John Dunton . * THOUGH at the end of the " Short Memoir of the Author " we observe the initials ...
... taste and all their generous aspirings after literature . " NOTICES OF REPRINTS OF CURIOUS OLD BOOKS , No V. The Life and Errors of John Dunton . * THOUGH at the end of the " Short Memoir of the Author " we observe the initials ...
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... taste , to have made his af fection towards his unhappy and per- secuted brother , a little more promi- nent . It ... tastes were rather worse than his manners , and whatever abilities he may have possessed , were so buried under the ...
... taste , to have made his af fection towards his unhappy and per- secuted brother , a little more promi- nent . It ... tastes were rather worse than his manners , and whatever abilities he may have possessed , were so buried under the ...
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Page 187 - Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow, Enough if in our hearts we know There's such a place as Yarrow.
Page 59 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 38 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a
Page 181 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 272 - And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias : who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.