The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 6Charles Brockden Brown John Conrad & Company, 1806 |
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... objects desig- nated by these names been shown to us at the same time . A sign of the hand or of the eye has been the sole ... object . It will be the same with respect to every thing else pointed out to them , the name being previously ...
... objects desig- nated by these names been shown to us at the same time . A sign of the hand or of the eye has been the sole ... object . It will be the same with respect to every thing else pointed out to them , the name being previously ...
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... object whose name is so offered him ; and thus clearly prove that he comprehends the meaning of every one . By this ... objects which surround us , on being properly pointed out to him as you write their names down on the table , or on ...
... object whose name is so offered him ; and thus clearly prove that he comprehends the meaning of every one . By this ... objects which surround us , on being properly pointed out to him as you write their names down on the table , or on ...
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... object of pursuit . Let us hear what a great traveller of this kind has to say in favour of his own taste . From the objects of picturesque travel , we may consider its sources of amusement , or in what way the mind is gratified by ...
... object of pursuit . Let us hear what a great traveller of this kind has to say in favour of his own taste . From the objects of picturesque travel , we may consider its sources of amusement , or in what way the mind is gratified by ...
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... object ; the expectation of new scenes continally opening and arising to his view . We suppose the country to have been unexplor- ed . Under this circumstance the mind is kept constantly in an agree- able suspence . The love of novelty ...
... object ; the expectation of new scenes continally opening and arising to his view . We suppose the country to have been unexplor- ed . Under this circumstance the mind is kept constantly in an agree- able suspence . The love of novelty ...
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... object , our next amuse- ment arises from enlarging and cor- recting our general stock of ideas . The variety of nature is such , that new objects , and new combinations of them , are continually adding something to our fund , and ...
... object , our next amuse- ment arises from enlarging and cor- recting our general stock of ideas . The variety of nature is such , that new objects , and new combinations of them , are continually adding something to our fund , and ...
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Page 147 - Tavern in a considerable body for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the chair at the head of a long table, and was the life and soul of the corps : the poet took post silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fitzherbert, Caleb Whitefoord, and a phalanx of North British predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major Mills, all good men and true.
Page 148 - I thought it time to press the joke no further, and wrote a few couplets at a side-table, which, when I had finished and was called upon by the company to exhibit, Goldsmith with much agitation besought me to spare him, and I was about to tear them, when Johnson wrested them out of my hand, and in a loud voice read them at the table. I have now lost all recollection of them, and in fact they were little worth remembering, but as they were serious and complimentary, the effect they had upon Goldsmith...
Page 56 - ... more liable in general to err than man, but in general, also, more virtuous, and performing more good...
Page 149 - ... condition upon its future sale. Johnson described the precautions he took in concealing the amount of the sum he had in hand, which he prudently administered to him by a guinea at a time. In the event he paid off the landlady's score, and redeemed the person of his friend from her embraces. Goldsmith had the joy of finding his ingenious work succeed beyond his hopes, and from that time began to place a confidence in the resources of his talents, which thenceforward enabled him to keep his station...
Page 147 - I had the honour to be deputed to that office. I planted him in an upper box, pretty nearly over the stage, in full view of the pit and galleries, and perfectly well situated to give the echo all its play through the hollows and recesses of the theatre.
Page 31 - The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing motions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.
Page 95 - Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 363 - In this accomplished lady, love is the constant effect, because it is never the design. Yet, though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education...
Page 56 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 148 - Johnson his manuscript of The Vicar of Wakefield, but seemed to be without any plan or even hope, of raising money upon the disposal of it: when Johnson cast his eye upon it, he discovered something that gave him, hope, and immediately took it to Dodsley, who paid down the price above mentioned in ready money, and added an eventual condition upon its future sale.