Letters and Essays in Prose and VerseE. Moxon, 1834 - 268 lappuses |
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3. lappuse - Are come upon him his deserts ? " " Here rather let me drudge and earn my bread " " Not for thy life, lest fierce remembrance wake " My sudden rage to tear thee joint by joint. " At distance I forgive thee go with that
183. lappuse - optimum" I agree with you, however, that a common opinion intimated by Gibbon, in the following passage, is not true. " I desisted from the pursuit of mathematics, " before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid " demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings
3. lappuse - what can he say to the following specimens, taken at random while I am now writing ? " Am I not sung and proverb'd for a fool " In every street ? Do they not say how well " Are come upon him his deserts
109. lappuse - small, that if their throats were cut, all " they consume in a year would not give a bit of " bread and cheese for one night's supper to those " who labour " Bossuet, in one of his best sermons, has the following characteristic passages : " Je dis donc, ô riches du siècle ! que vous avez " tort de traiter les pauvres avec
47. lappuse - Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness ! " Some boundless contiguity of shade !" He should have stopped at the end of the
8. lappuse - of its respective language, as to remain " settled and unaltered " " The polite are always catching modish inno"vations, and the learned depart from established " forms of speech, in hopes of finding or making
175. lappuse - action or intimation of the mind: and therefore, " to understand them rightly, the several views, " postures, stands, turns, limitations, and excep" tions, and several other thoughts of the mind, " for which we have either none, or very deficient
99. lappuse - perfici putas" The following passages in the 9th and 10th Sections of the celebrated dialogue "de " causis corruptae eloquentiae" leave little doubt as to its author, notwithstanding the long and learned disputes on the subject. " Adjice quod poetis, si "modo dignum aliquid elaborare et efficere velint, ;< relinquenda conversatio amicorum et jucunditas
9. lappuse - vulgar when the vulgar is right; but there is a " conversation above grossness and below refinement, " where propriety resides, and where Shakespeare " seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
43. lappuse - that of the populace; and I fear the quickness and delicate " impatience of these polished times are but the forerunners of " the decline of all those beautiful arts which depend upon the " imagination * • • • • Homer, the father of Circumstance, " has occasion for the same apology.