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... writer and the reader . To combine cheerfulness with reflec- tion , and candour with satire , has been the design of the Author , and the public patronage has crowned his efforts with success . . The two most powerful motives that keep ...
... writer and the reader . To combine cheerfulness with reflec- tion , and candour with satire , has been the design of the Author , and the public patronage has crowned his efforts with success . . The two most powerful motives that keep ...
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... our modern writers , the name of Pennant ap- pears with honour to himself and his birth - place ; and Wales can boast of a lawyer who has perhaps never been excelled in adherence to justice . Lord Kenyon was in- 18 Welshmen.
... our modern writers , the name of Pennant ap- pears with honour to himself and his birth - place ; and Wales can boast of a lawyer who has perhaps never been excelled in adherence to justice . Lord Kenyon was in- 18 Welshmen.
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... writers have indeed rather represented truth with the solemn air of a recluse , than the more animated demean- our of a smiling grace , but the people have nevertheless proved their attachment to her dictates even to martyr- dom ! To ...
... writers have indeed rather represented truth with the solemn air of a recluse , than the more animated demean- our of a smiling grace , but the people have nevertheless proved their attachment to her dictates even to martyr- dom ! To ...
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... writer , might form a valuable trea- tise of four or five hundred pages quarto ! Another singular class of Irlshmen consists of those adventurers who repair to London as fortune - hunters , and assume the character of gentlemen . They ...
... writer , might form a valuable trea- tise of four or five hundred pages quarto ! Another singular class of Irlshmen consists of those adventurers who repair to London as fortune - hunters , and assume the character of gentlemen . They ...
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... strikingly manifested by the following anecdote : Racine , the celebrated French writer , soon after his ap- pointment to the place of historiographer to Louis XIV . re- Still , however , there are many illustrious exceptions to 51.
... strikingly manifested by the following anecdote : Racine , the celebrated French writer , soon after his ap- pointment to the place of historiographer to Louis XIV . re- Still , however , there are many illustrious exceptions to 51.
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Page 201 - Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage: Such plays alone should win a British ear, As Cato's self had not disdain'd to hear.
Page 33 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 102 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 193 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Page 99 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Page 100 - Behold the picture ! Is it like ? —Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Page 125 - And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ?
Page 11 - Your prudent grand-mammas, ye modern belles, Content with Bristol, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells, When health required it would consent to roam, Else more attached to pleasures found at home. But now alike, gay widow, virgin, wife, Ingenious to diversify dull life, In coaches, chaises, caravans, and hoys, Fly to the coast for daily, nightly joys, And all, impatient of dry land, agree With one consent to rush into the sea.
Page 202 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 18 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...