Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 pages |
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Page 104
... false com- putation did not agree with the conclu- fions which Sir Ifaac intended to draw from them , he laid afide this purfuit . A half - learn'd philofopher , remarkable only for his vanity , would have made the measure of the earth ...
... false com- putation did not agree with the conclu- fions which Sir Ifaac intended to draw from them , he laid afide this purfuit . A half - learn'd philofopher , remarkable only for his vanity , would have made the measure of the earth ...
Page 161
... false , it is certain they are expreffed with an ener- gy and fire which form the poet . I fhall be very far from attempting to examine philofophically into thefe verfes ; to lay down the pencil and take up the rule and compafs on this ...
... false , it is certain they are expreffed with an ener- gy and fire which form the poet . I fhall be very far from attempting to examine philofophically into thefe verfes ; to lay down the pencil and take up the rule and compafs on this ...
Page 195
... false and flan- derous , it is then his duty to declare it , and to thank , in a public manner , thofe who have undeceived him . This is exactly my cafe . Mr. Richey has proved to me the innocence of his fellow citizens , and the ...
... false and flan- derous , it is then his duty to declare it , and to thank , in a public manner , thofe who have undeceived him . This is exactly my cafe . Mr. Richey has proved to me the innocence of his fellow citizens , and the ...
Page 228
... false ; for Pyrrhus could not be happy , neither before nor after be bad conquered the world . XXV . THE example of Cineas does very well in Boileau's fatyrs , but not in a philosophi- cal treatise ; a wife king may be happy at home and ...
... false ; for Pyrrhus could not be happy , neither before nor after be bad conquered the world . XXV . THE example of Cineas does very well in Boileau's fatyrs , but not in a philosophi- cal treatise ; a wife king may be happy at home and ...
Page 239
... false to affert , that thofe in a low condition are lefs agitated than such as are in exalted stations ; on the contrary , their grief is more poignant , as they can have lefs relief . Of an hundred perfons who lay violent hands on ...
... false to affert , that thofe in a low condition are lefs agitated than such as are in exalted stations ; on the contrary , their grief is more poignant , as they can have lefs relief . Of an hundred perfons who lay violent hands on ...
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Page 171 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
Page 139 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 149 - He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him ; and hinted to me, in our first conversation, that I should visit him upon no other foot than that of a gentleman, who led a life of plainness and simplicity.
Page 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Page 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Page 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Page 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Page 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Page 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Page 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.