The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 36 |
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... kind of wit which consists partly in the resemblance of ideas , and partly in the resemblance of words , which for distinction sake I shall call mixt wit . This kind of wit is that which abounds in Cowley , more than in any author that ...
... kind of wit which consists partly in the resemblance of ideas , and partly in the resemblance of words , which for distinction sake I shall call mixt wit . This kind of wit is that which abounds in Cowley , more than in any author that ...
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... kind of writing . Mixt wit therefore is a composition of pun and true wit , and is more or less perfect , as the re- semblance lies in the ideas or in the words . Its foundations are laid partly in falsehood and partly in truth ; reason ...
... kind of writing . Mixt wit therefore is a composition of pun and true wit , and is more or less perfect , as the re- semblance lies in the ideas or in the words . Its foundations are laid partly in falsehood and partly in truth ; reason ...
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... kind soever escape them . I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry , who like those in architecture , not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to supply its place with all ...
... kind soever escape them . I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry , who like those in architecture , not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to supply its place with all ...
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... kind of sculpture . I im- mediately went up to it , and found it to be a kind of heathen temple consecrated to the god of Dulness . Upon my entrance I saw the deity of the place dressed in the habit of a monk , with a book in one hand ...
... kind of sculpture . I im- mediately went up to it , and found it to be a kind of heathen temple consecrated to the god of Dulness . Upon my entrance I saw the deity of the place dressed in the habit of a monk , with a book in one hand ...
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... kind of dress , though perhaps there was not the least resemblance in their faces . By this means an old man was sometimes mistaken for a boy , a woman for a man , and a black - a - moor for an Euro- pean , which very often produced ...
... kind of dress , though perhaps there was not the least resemblance in their faces . By this means an old man was sometimes mistaken for a boy , a woman for a man , and a black - a - moor for an Euro- pean , which very often produced ...
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Page 294 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge ? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 200 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
Page 283 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that Means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several Times Foreman of the Petty-Jury. The other that rides along with him is Tom Touchy, a Fellow famous for taking the Law of every Body.
Page 259 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 211 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
Page 39 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the...
Page 65 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
Page 232 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn x 2 from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it; which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others who have written on this subject, though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it.
Page 255 - So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 64 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...