The St. James's Magazine, Volumen1Robert Lloyd W. Flexney ... T. Davies ... and J. Coote, 1762 |
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... should be imagined that they have no opinion at all , are determined to have a very bad one of every thing they read . Such , in- deed the editor is as unambitious of pleafing , as perfectly careless whether he offends . Those who know ...
... should be imagined that they have no opinion at all , are determined to have a very bad one of every thing they read . Such , in- deed the editor is as unambitious of pleafing , as perfectly careless whether he offends . Those who know ...
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... should please ; No pictures taken from the life , Where all proportions are at ftrife ; No HUMMING - BIRD , no PAINTED FLOWER , No BEAST juft landed in the Tower , No WOODEN NOTES , no COLOUR'D MAP , NO COUNRY - DANCE fhall ftop a gap ...
... should please ; No pictures taken from the life , Where all proportions are at ftrife ; No HUMMING - BIRD , no PAINTED FLOWER , No BEAST juft landed in the Tower , No WOODEN NOTES , no COLOUR'D MAP , NO COUNRY - DANCE fhall ftop a gap ...
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... should be thar'd among its neighbours . Who know that thought produces pain , And deep reflection mads the brain , And therefore , wife and prudent grown , Have no ideas of their own . But if the man of Nature speak Advance their ...
... should be thar'd among its neighbours . Who know that thought produces pain , And deep reflection mads the brain , And therefore , wife and prudent grown , Have no ideas of their own . But if the man of Nature speak Advance their ...
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... and His is chafte , And BOTH ay Вотн , are men of taste . Should you nor fteal nor borrow aid , And fet up for yourself in trade , VOL . I. D Refoly'd 8 Refolv'd imprudently to show That ' tis not always Wit For SEPTEMBER , 1762 . 17.
... and His is chafte , And BOTH ay Вотн , are men of taste . Should you nor fteal nor borrow aid , And fet up for yourself in trade , VOL . I. D Refoly'd 8 Refolv'd imprudently to show That ' tis not always Wit For SEPTEMBER , 1762 . 17.
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... should be fo much neglected and abused . And in this difcourfe it will be neceffary to note ' those errors that are obvious , as well as others which are < * 4 6 ་ are feldomer obferved , fince 22 The St. JAMES'S MAGAZINE ,
... should be fo much neglected and abused . And in this difcourfe it will be neceffary to note ' those errors that are obvious , as well as others which are < * 4 6 ་ are feldomer obferved , fince 22 The St. JAMES'S MAGAZINE ,
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Página 152 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 33 - And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves.
Página 36 - I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious, and low.
Página 32 - French, from whence we borrow the word, have a quite different idea of the thing, and so had we in the politer age of our fathers. Raillery was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection, but by some turn of wit, unexpected and surprising, ended always in a compliment, and to the advantage of the person it was addressed to.
Página 31 - That is to say, five or six men who had writ plays, or at least prologues, or had share in a miscellany, came thither and entertained one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them.
Página 36 - First's reign; and from what we read of those times, as well as from the accounts I have formerly met with from some who lived in that court, the methods then used for raising and cultivating conversation were altogether different from ours: several ladies whom we find celebrated by the poets of that...
Página 34 - ... are so ready to lapse into barbarity. This, among the Romans, was the raillery of slaves, of which we have many instances in Plautus. It seems to have been introduced among us by Cromwell,* who, by preferring the scum of the people, made it a court entertainment...
Página 31 - Will's coffeehouse, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble ; that is to say, five or six men, who had writ plays, or at least prologues, or had share in a miscellany, came thither, and entertained one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air, as if they had been...
Página 32 - It now passes for raillery to run a man down in discourse, to put him out of countenance, and make him ridiculous ; sometimes to expose the defects of his person or understanding; on all which occasions, he is obliged not to be angry, to avoid the imputation of not being able to take a jest.
Página 207 - tis a voice from the tomb; ' Come, Lucy (it cries), come away; The grave of thy Colin has room To rest thee beside his cold clay.' ' I come, my dear shepherd! I come; Ye friends and companions! adieu; I haste to my Colin's dark home, To die on his bosom so true.