Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 pages |
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Page 124
... , city or nation , but endeavours to remove its original as far backward as poffible . Be- fides , the firft hiftorians were the most neg- ligent ligent in fetting down the æras ; books were infinitely 124 LETTERS Concerning.
... , city or nation , but endeavours to remove its original as far backward as poffible . Be- fides , the firft hiftorians were the most neg- ligent ligent in fetting down the æras ; books were infinitely 124 LETTERS Concerning.
Page 135
... original ; and re- member always that when you see a ver- fion , you fee merely a faint print of a beau- tiful picture . I have made choice of part of the celebrated foliloquy in Hamlet , which you may remember is as follows : To be ...
... original ; and re- member always that when you see a ver- fion , you fee merely a faint print of a beau- tiful picture . I have made choice of part of the celebrated foliloquy in Hamlet , which you may remember is as follows : To be ...
Page 138
... fervile manner . Woe to the writer who gives a literal verfion ; who by rendering every word of his original , by that very means enervates the fenfe , and extinguishes extinguishes all the fire of it . ' Tis on 138 LETTERS Concerning.
... fervile manner . Woe to the writer who gives a literal verfion ; who by rendering every word of his original , by that very means enervates the fenfe , and extinguishes extinguishes all the fire of it . ' Tis on 138 LETTERS Concerning.
Page 154
... original , that I am obliged seriously to ask pardon of the author , and of all who understand English . However , as this is the only method I have to make his lordship's verses known , I shall here present you with them in our tongue ...
... original , that I am obliged seriously to ask pardon of the author , and of all who understand English . However , as this is the only method I have to make his lordship's verses known , I shall here present you with them in our tongue ...
Page 160
... Original runs thus : Hold , mighty Man , I cry , all this we know , And ' tis this very Reafon I defpife , This fupernatural Gift , that makes a Mite Think he's the Image of the infinite ; Comparing his fhort Life , void of all rest ...
... Original runs thus : Hold , mighty Man , I cry , all this we know , And ' tis this very Reafon I defpife , This fupernatural Gift , that makes a Mite Think he's the Image of the infinite ; Comparing his fhort Life , void of all rest ...
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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.