The Annual Register, 22. kötetLongmans, Green, 1796 |
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11. oldal
... common refuge , crowded for fhel- ter and protection . It would feem , from his fituation and force in that place , that he might there have waited , and fuccefsfully re- fifted , all the attempts of the enemy . But this man was fo ...
... common refuge , crowded for fhel- ter and protection . It would feem , from his fituation and force in that place , that he might there have waited , and fuccefsfully re- fifted , all the attempts of the enemy . But this man was fo ...
13. oldal
... common car- nage , with that of the ancient huf- band and father . However painful the tafk of re- citing fuch horrible barbarities , ( many of the worst circumstances of which are fpared ) it may not be fifteen to about feventy miles ...
... common car- nage , with that of the ancient huf- band and father . However painful the tafk of re- citing fuch horrible barbarities , ( many of the worst circumstances of which are fpared ) it may not be fifteen to about feventy miles ...
19. oldal
... common friend to both countries , he pa- thetically lamented their mutual calamities , he feemed no way fpar- ing in his cenfure of the conduct and measures on the fide of govern- ment which led to the prefent troubles ; nor did he any ...
... common friend to both countries , he pa- thetically lamented their mutual calamities , he feemed no way fpar- ing in his cenfure of the conduct and measures on the fide of govern- ment which led to the prefent troubles ; nor did he any ...
24. oldal
... Common Senfe , who with great induftry pointed out to the public , the defectivencís , incoherence , or contradiction of the evidence . But not fatisfied with apparently gaining this point , they undertook to prove the direct re- verfe ...
... Common Senfe , who with great induftry pointed out to the public , the defectivencís , incoherence , or contradiction of the evidence . But not fatisfied with apparently gaining this point , they undertook to prove the direct re- verfe ...
29. oldal
... common business and affairs of life . The recovery of Georgia , would not only put an end to that quiet and fecurity upon which fo much depended , but would open fo wide a door into South Carolina , as could never be effectually closed ...
... common business and affairs of life . The recovery of Georgia , would not only put an end to that quiet and fecurity upon which fo much depended , but would open fo wide a door into South Carolina , as could never be effectually closed ...
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19. oldal - The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses, by counting the syllables.
20. oldal - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.
19. oldal - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit which is at once natural and new, that which though not obvious is, upon its...
351. oldal - Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral to will and require the High Court of Admiralty of Great Britain, and the Lieutenant and Judge of the...
19. oldal - Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account.
19. oldal - Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry. If Wit be well described by Pope, as being "that which has been often thought, but was never before so well expressed...
25. oldal - The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate his appetite of greatness. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
320. oldal - March, one thoufand fe»en hundred and feventy-nine, upon lands> tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed; and that a proportionable cefs, according...
29. oldal - But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more.
160. oldal - Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.