The microcosm [ed. by G. Canning and others]. [Another]George Canning 1825 |
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... knowledge , I would advise my readers to repress and smother in its infancy this unhappy passion of inquisitiveness ; as , whatever be the success of this my work , such precautions have been taken with regard to myself , as shall elude ...
... knowledge , I would advise my readers to repress and smother in its infancy this unhappy passion of inquisitiveness ; as , whatever be the success of this my work , such precautions have been taken with regard to myself , as shall elude ...
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... knowledge , language , or observation sufficient to pursue this arduous plan ? - My materials are copious ; the whole range , the in- exhaustible fund of topics , which every event in life , every passion , every object , present , lie ...
... knowledge , language , or observation sufficient to pursue this arduous plan ? - My materials are copious ; the whole range , the in- exhaustible fund of topics , which every event in life , every passion , every object , present , lie ...
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... knowledge is to be certified that we know nothing . Upon this tenet he logically and ingeniously builds an argument which tends to support his main principle , viz . the summit of knowing is to know that knowledge is a non - entity ...
... knowledge is to be certified that we know nothing . Upon this tenet he logically and ingeniously builds an argument which tends to support his main principle , viz . the summit of knowing is to know that knowledge is a non - entity ...
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... to burst those chains which knowledge and truth have imposed upon her ; we can only reflect , and draw useful inferences from the various events which crowd the historic page , from the various calamities 34 N ° . V. MICROCOSM .
... to burst those chains which knowledge and truth have imposed upon her ; we can only reflect , and draw useful inferences from the various events which crowd the historic page , from the various calamities 34 N ° . V. MICROCOSM .
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... knowledge and philosophy . But to exercise the speculative powers of the mind , is to me at least a more pleasing employment , especially if , forming our judgment from the past events of antiquity , and asserting , what is surely no ...
... knowledge and philosophy . But to exercise the speculative powers of the mind , is to me at least a more pleasing employment , especially if , forming our judgment from the past events of antiquity , and asserting , what is surely no ...
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abilities Addison admiration Æneid Æsop ambition ancient apartments deranged appearance attention barbarous boast Cæsar cæsura character Cicero considered contempt criticism Demosthenes effect effeminacy elegant eminent endeavour entertain Epic poem equally Eton excellence existence fame favour feel fellow-citizens frequently genius give glory GREGORY GRIFFIN happy heart hero highwayman honour hope HORACE human nature humour idea Iliad illustrious imitation indulgence instance judgment Julius Cæsar kind labours language learning letter liberty mankind means merit MICROCOSMOPOLITAN mind MONDAY moral nation never Newgate Calendar object observed opinion original Ovid paper passions peculiar perhaps Pericles period person philosopher Plato pleasing poem poet poetical poetry political present principle profession pursuit racter readers refined reflection ridiculous Roman sentiment spirit superior suppose Tacitus taste thing Tom Long Trajan truth umbris vanity Virgil virtue wish writings
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Page 264 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 178 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face ; Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise.
Page 264 - His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace : he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 265 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 84 - That age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias and painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes or a tragedy of Sophocles.
Page 195 - Yet all these were, when no man did them know; Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene: And later times things more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is, but that which he hath scene?
Page 230 - And felt the footsteps of the immortal god. From realm to realm three ample strides he took, And, at the fourth, the distant /Egae shook.
Page 43 - TJnpitied toil, and unlamented die; Groan at the labours of the galling oar, Or the dark caverns of the mine explore. The glitt'ring tyranny of Othman's sons, The pomp of horror which surrounds their thrones, Has awed their servile spirits into fear, Spurn'd by the foot they tremble and revere. The day of labour, night's sad sleepless hour, Th...
Page 98 - Thus have I industriously gone through the several parts of this wonderful work ; and clearly proved it, in .every one of these parts, and in .all of them together, to be a due and proper epic poem ; and to have as good a right to that title, from its adherence to prescribed rules, as any of the celebrated master-pieces of antiquity. And here I cannot help again lamenting, that by not knowing the name of the author, I am unable to twine...
Page 194 - But let that man with better sence advize, That of the world least part to us is red: And daily how through hardy enterprize Many great regions are discovered, Which to late age were never mentioned. Who ever heard of th