The English Gentleman's Library Manual: Or, A Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature; Accompanied with Original Notices, Biographical and Critical, of Authors and BooksW. Goodhugh, 1827 - 392 pages |
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... Stage , from the time of Shakspeare ; with No- tices of the Lives , and Selections from the Works , of the great Dramatists . History of Romance ; including Critical Notices and Specimens of the Works of Fiction of the European and ...
... Stage , from the time of Shakspeare ; with No- tices of the Lives , and Selections from the Works , of the great Dramatists . History of Romance ; including Critical Notices and Specimens of the Works of Fiction of the European and ...
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... stage of society , and are read much more for amusement than with the least hope of deriving instruction from them . The vices and follies of Tom Jones are those which the world soon teaches to all who enter on the career of life , and ...
... stage of society , and are read much more for amusement than with the least hope of deriving instruction from them . The vices and follies of Tom Jones are those which the world soon teaches to all who enter on the career of life , and ...
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... stage with the mask of living man- ners , or the " pomps of elder days , " shook it with laughter or drowned it with tears ; poured out the wine of life , the living spirit of the drama , and left the lees to others . Little could ...
... stage with the mask of living man- ners , or the " pomps of elder days , " shook it with laughter or drowned it with tears ; poured out the wine of life , the living spirit of the drama , and left the lees to others . Little could ...
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... it becomes a caput mortuum , a shadow of itself . Nothing is easier than to show how , from the alter- ation of manners , the brilliant dialogue of the older comedy has gradually disappeared from the stage . The style 160 HISTORICAL VIEW ...
... it becomes a caput mortuum , a shadow of itself . Nothing is easier than to show how , from the alter- ation of manners , the brilliant dialogue of the older comedy has gradually disappeared from the stage . The style 160 HISTORICAL VIEW ...
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... stage . The style of our common conversation has undergone a total change from the personal and piquant to the critical and didactic , and instead of aiming at ele- gant raillery , or pointed repartee , the most polished circles now ...
... stage . The style of our common conversation has undergone a total change from the personal and piquant to the critical and didactic , and instead of aiming at ele- gant raillery , or pointed repartee , the most polished circles now ...
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Page 301 - What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" " Sir (said the boy), I would give what I have.
Page 8 - My advice, however, is, that you attempt, from time to time, an original sermon; and, in the labour of composition, do not burden your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression. Invent first, and then embellish.
Page 301 - Most certainly, sir; for those who know them have a very great advantage over those who do not. Nay, sir, it is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
Page 43 - I thought that I was the only historian, that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was...
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Page 230 - ... still to draw a tear of pity, or a throb of admiration, from the hearts of a forgetful generation. The body of their poetry, probably, can never be revived ; but some sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved in a narrower and feebler frame.
Page 26 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little...
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Page 143 - But Johnson informed me that he had made the bargain for Goldsmith, and the price was sixty pounds. "And, Sir," said he, "a sufficient price too, when it was sold; for then the fame of Goldsmith had not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his 'Traveller...
Page 140 - ... perusal of Fielding's novel has added one libertine to the large list who would not have been such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism,...