The British Essayists: The IdlerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS that he composed it in the evenings of one weck , sent it to press as it was written , and had never since read it over . Such a fact must raise our admiration of the astonishing powers which en- abled him to defy ...
... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS that he composed it in the evenings of one weck , sent it to press as it was written , and had never since read it over . Such a fact must raise our admiration of the astonishing powers which en- abled him to defy ...
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... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS ' painted Window in new College Chapel , and from 1785 , when he succeeded to the Laureatship , to 1790 , various New Years and Birth - day Odes . His prose works were " Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser ...
... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS ' painted Window in new College Chapel , and from 1785 , when he succeeded to the Laureatship , to 1790 , various New Years and Birth - day Odes . His prose works were " Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser ...
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... Joshua had made himself master of a treatise , entitled " The Jesuits Perspective , " and increased his love of the art still more , by studying Richard- son's " Treatise on Painting ... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS , as xxiv HISTORICAL AND.
... Joshua had made himself master of a treatise , entitled " The Jesuits Perspective , " and increased his love of the art still more , by studying Richard- son's " Treatise on Painting ... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS , as xxiv HISTORICAL AND.
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... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS , it is natural to ask what must be- come of the puny attempts of inferior writers to diminish the fame , and insult the memory , of of our great moralist ? In consequence of his connection with Dr. JOHNSON , Mr.
... Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS , it is natural to ask what must be- come of the puny attempts of inferior writers to diminish the fame , and insult the memory , of of our great moralist ? In consequence of his connection with Dr. JOHNSON , Mr.
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... Sir JOSHUA'S works , by Mr. MALONE , as they were his first literary attempts , the earnest of those talents which ... REYNOLDS ' professional talents , and the broad basis on which it is founded , makes it now un- necessary to be ...
... Sir JOSHUA'S works , by Mr. MALONE , as they were his first literary attempts , the earnest of those talents which ... REYNOLDS ' professional talents , and the broad basis on which it is founded , makes it now un- necessary to be ...
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Página 132 - Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to
Página 37 - and is very seldom attained. The experiments that have been tried, are tried again; he that burned an animal with irons yesterday, will be willing to amuse himself with burning another to-morrow. I know not, that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily cured. And if the
Página 4 - N°. 7. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1758. ONE of the principal amusements of the Idler is to read the works of those minute historians the writers of news, who, though contemptuously overlooked by the composers of bulky volumes, are yet necessary in a nation where much wealth produces much leisure, and one part of the people
Página 120 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST
Página 20 - to tell children of bugbears and goblins. Fear will find every house haunted; and idleness will wait for ever for the moment of illumination. This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance every day is bright, and
Página vii - Speaking of his own discourses, our great artist says, " Whatever merit they have, must be imputed, in a great measure, to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. JOHNSON. I do not mean to say, though it
Página 115 - There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vender of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh ;,and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom
Página 92 - once pursued the same course of science, and from whence they soared to the most elevated heights of literary fame. This is that incitement which Tally, according to his own testimony, experienced at Athens, when he contemplated the porticos where Socrates sat, and the laurel-groves where Plato disputed. But there are other circumstances, and of the highest importance,