The Idler, 2. kötetT. Davies in Russel-Street, Covent Garden, 1767 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 46 találatból.
19. oldal
... Raleigh , to throw it into the fire , and leave this fordid genera- tion to the curfes of pofterity . Tell me , dear Idler , what I fhall do . I am , Sir , & c . N ° 56. Saturday , May 12 . HERE is No 56 . THE IDLER . 19.
... Raleigh , to throw it into the fire , and leave this fordid genera- tion to the curfes of pofterity . Tell me , dear Idler , what I fhall do . I am , Sir , & c . N ° 56. Saturday , May 12 . HERE is No 56 . THE IDLER . 19.
21. oldal
... tion , and brings contenders from every part to the scene of diftribution . He that had re- folved to buy no more , feels his constancy sub- dued ; there is now fomething in the Catalogue which completes his Cabinet , and which he was ...
... tion , and brings contenders from every part to the scene of diftribution . He that had re- folved to buy no more , feels his constancy sub- dued ; there is now fomething in the Catalogue which completes his Cabinet , and which he was ...
22. oldal
... tion of a turbinated shell , which common eyes pass unregarded , will ten times treble its price in the imagination of philofophers . Beauty is far from operating upon collectors as upon low and vulgar minds , even where beauty might be ...
... tion of a turbinated shell , which common eyes pass unregarded , will ten times treble its price in the imagination of philofophers . Beauty is far from operating upon collectors as upon low and vulgar minds , even where beauty might be ...
23. oldal
... tion , does more harm or good , is not eafily decided . Its harm is apparent at the first view . It fills the mind with trifling ambition ; fixes the attention upon things which have seldom any tendency towards virtue or wisdom ; em ...
... tion , does more harm or good , is not eafily decided . Its harm is apparent at the first view . It fills the mind with trifling ambition ; fixes the attention upon things which have seldom any tendency towards virtue or wisdom ; em ...
26. oldal
... tion and diftrefs can fo often happen . THE firft principle of Sophron is to run në hazards . Tho ' he loves money , he is of opi- nion , that frugality is a more certain fource of riches than induftry . It is to no purpose that any ...
... tion and diftrefs can fo often happen . THE firft principle of Sophron is to run në hazards . Tho ' he loves money , he is of opi- nion , that frugality is a more certain fource of riches than induftry . It is to no purpose that any ...
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309. oldal - Yet softer honours, and less noisy fame, Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham : In whom a race, for courage fam'd and art, Ends in the milder merit of the heart : And, chiefs or sages long to Britain given, Pays the last tribute of a saint to Heaven.
269. oldal - ... little ; that to life must come its last hour, and to this system of being its last day, the hour at which probation ceases, and repentance will be vain; the day in which every work of the hand, and imagination of the heart, shall be brought to judgment, and an everlasting futurity shall be determined by the past.
295. oldal - This epitaph is principally remarkable for the artful introduction of the name, which is inserted with a peculiar felicity, to which chance must concur with genius, which no man can hope to attain twice, and which cannot be copied but with servile imitation.
259. oldal - The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in search of knowledge; and I know not how I was diverted from my design. I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passions within.
258. oldal - I took my first survey of the world, in my twentieth year, having considered the various conditions of mankind, in the hour of solitude I said thus to myself, leaning against a cedar which spread its branches over my head...
203. oldal - IT is common to overlook what is near, by keeping the eye fixed upon something remote. In the same manner present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges, and intent upon future advantages. Life, however short, is made...
300. oldal - Who knew no wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go, live ! for heav'n's eternal year is thine ; Go, and exalt thy mortal to divine.
158. oldal - To conclude, then, by way of corollary ; if it has been proved, that the painter, by attending to the invariable and general ideas of nature, produces beauty, he must, by regarding minute particularities and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal rule, and pollute his canvass with deformity.
100. oldal - ... or limited ideas ; if he attempts, without the terms of architecture, to delineate the parts, or enumerate the ornaments, his narration at once becomes unintelligible. The terms, indeed, generally...
247. oldal - ... expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford. Leisure soon made him weary of himself, and he longed to be persuaded that he was great and happy. He was courteous and liberal ; he gave all that approached him hopes of pleasing him, and all who should please him hopes of being rewarded. Every art of praise was tried, and every source of adulatory...