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... Place , The Form of our Government , which gives every Man , that has Leifure , or Curiofity , or Vanity , the Right of enquiring into the Propriety of publick Meafures , and , by Confequence , obliges thofe who are intrufted with the ...
... Place , The Form of our Government , which gives every Man , that has Leifure , or Curiofity , or Vanity , the Right of enquiring into the Propriety of publick Meafures , and , by Confequence , obliges thofe who are intrufted with the ...
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... Place . The Regard which was always paid , by the Col- lectors of this Liberary , to that remarkable Period of Time , in which the Art of Printing was invented , determined them to accumulate the ancient Impref- fions of the Fathers of ...
... Place . The Regard which was always paid , by the Col- lectors of this Liberary , to that remarkable Period of Time , in which the Art of Printing was invented , determined them to accumulate the ancient Impref- fions of the Fathers of ...
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... Place , who have exa- mined the different Species of Animals , delineated their Forms , or defcribed their Properties and In- ftincts , or who have penetrated the Bowels of the Earth , treated on its different Strata , and analyfed its ...
... Place , who have exa- mined the different Species of Animals , delineated their Forms , or defcribed their Properties and In- ftincts , or who have penetrated the Bowels of the Earth , treated on its different Strata , and analyfed its ...
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... place myself for an Hour at Temple - Bar , or any other narrow Pafs much frequented , and examine one by one the Looks of the Paffengers ; and I have commonly found , that , between the Hours of Eleven and Four , every Sixth Man is an ...
... place myself for an Hour at Temple - Bar , or any other narrow Pafs much frequented , and examine one by one the Looks of the Paffengers ; and I have commonly found , that , between the Hours of Eleven and Four , every Sixth Man is an ...
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... Place , neither Vanity nor Interest incited me to enquire . It appeared that the Pro- vince allotted me was , of all the Regions of Learn- ing , , general hat it was Flowers ; an iration , not apon it . Yet on this the pleating Fife ...
... Place , neither Vanity nor Interest incited me to enquire . It appeared that the Pro- vince allotted me was , of all the Regions of Learn- ing , , general hat it was Flowers ; an iration , not apon it . Yet on this the pleating Fife ...
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Page 62 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 282 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 37 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Page 113 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 86 - There is, however, proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature.
Page 32 - To explain requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition.
Page 71 - 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 77 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Page 99 - The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.
Page 282 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...