The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, 77. köideR. Griffiths, 1787 |
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... attention fuccefsfully and happily applied to the con- fideration of the Poetics in their original . His interpretation and notes are not fo prolix as Winftanley's and Goulston's ; they are , nevertheless , very clear , diftinct , and ...
... attention fuccefsfully and happily applied to the con- fideration of the Poetics in their original . His interpretation and notes are not fo prolix as Winftanley's and Goulston's ; they are , nevertheless , very clear , diftinct , and ...
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... attention . Difpofed to taciturnity , he feldom communi . cates cates his thoughts ; but when his mind is agitated 20 Grant's Effays on the Origin of Society . FOREIGN LITERATURE, 229, 513 GREVILLE, Mifs, Hiftory of, 80 GREY'S Memoria ...
... attention . Difpofed to taciturnity , he feldom communi . cates cates his thoughts ; but when his mind is agitated 20 Grant's Effays on the Origin of Society . FOREIGN LITERATURE, 229, 513 GREVILLE, Mifs, Hiftory of, 80 GREY'S Memoria ...
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... attention . The difference of fex was denoted by two fimple founds , which formed two distinct words in primitive language . The vowel I , with an aspiration , fignifies to eat . The afpiration being the termination of the found , it ...
... attention . The difference of fex was denoted by two fimple founds , which formed two distinct words in primitive language . The vowel I , with an aspiration , fignifies to eat . The afpiration being the termination of the found , it ...
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... attention in early fociety . We have before remarked , that Re fignifies divifion , and that in process of time the word came to be applied to the effect of divifion , which was concord or agreement . In like manner the word Reinn ...
... attention in early fociety . We have before remarked , that Re fignifies divifion , and that in process of time the word came to be applied to the effect of divifion , which was concord or agreement . In like manner the word Reinn ...
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... attention of the philofophical Reader . ART . VI . Critical Effays on fome of the Poems of feveral English Poets by John Scott , Efq . With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author , by Mr. Hoole . 8vo . 55. 3d . Boards ...
... attention of the philofophical Reader . ART . VI . Critical Effays on fome of the Poems of feveral English Poets by John Scott , Efq . With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author , by Mr. Hoole . 8vo . 55. 3d . Boards ...
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Page 177 - Speak not of fate: ah! change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine, Talk of the flowers that round us bloom: Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom.
Page 213 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 399 - Oh ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
Page 446 - Two Dialogues; containing a Comparative View of the Lives, Characters, and Writings, of Philip the late Earl of Chesterfield, and Dr. Samuel Johnson,
Page 298 - High and mighty king, your grace, and these your nobles here present, may be pleased benignly to bow your ears to hear the tragedy of a young man, that by right ought to hold in his hand the ball of a kingdom ; but by fortune is made himself a ball, tossed from misery to misery, and from place to place.
Page 423 - ... thereunto, borrowed even from the praises which are proper to virtue itself. As of a most notorious thief, and wicked outlaw...
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Page 152 - I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the strand ; And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand.
Page 53 - This list is given by Sir John, as it should seem, with no other view than to draw a spiteful and malevolent character of almost every one of them. Mr. Dyer, whom Sir John says he loved with the affection of a brother, meets with the harshest treatment, because it was his maxim, that to live in peace with mankind, and in a temper to do good offices, was the most essential part of our duty.
Page xiii - The poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.