Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumen15Pub. for J. Hinton., 1754 |
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Página 13 - Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner, he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry. Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money ; but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
Página 288 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation, of a few surviving spectators.
Página 288 - Betterton played him. Then might they know, the one was born alone to speak what the other only knew to write!
Página 288 - You have seen a Hamlet, perhaps, who, on the first appearance of his father's spirit, has thrown himself into all the straining vociferation requisite to express rage and fury, and the house has thundered with applause, though the misguided actor was all the while, as Shakspeare terms it.
Página 294 - I thought of him with the same concern as if I waited for the remains of a person who had in real life done all that I had seen him represent.
Página 114 - If there be any thing which makes human nature appear ridiculous to beings of superior faculties, it must be pride. They know so well the vanity of...
Página 219 - I can therefore have but one inducement to desire your publication of this letter, which is that my friends may know that I have gained that credit °with a stranger which they have refused to give me, and that I am really and truly an object of compassion.
Página 114 - THERE is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly, and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. For my own part, I think, if there is any passion or vice .which I am wholly a stranger to, it is this ; though, at the same time, perhaps, this very judgment which I form of myself, proceeds, in some measure, from this corrupt principle. I have been always wonderfully delighted with that sentence in holy writ,
Página 294 - Othello ; the mixture of love that intruded upon his mind upon the innocent answers Desdemona makes, betrayed in his gesture such a variety and vicissitude of passions as would admonish a man to be afraid of his own heart, and perfectly convince him that it is to stab it, to admit that worst of daggers, jealousy.
Página 114 - ... advantages, whether in birth, fortune, or title, which one man enjoys above another, that it must certainly very much astonish, if it does not very much divert...