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Page 73
... fancy which children have for birds and insects . Mr. Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children , but reward- ed or punished them , as they treated them well or ill . This was no other than entering them be ...
... fancy which children have for birds and insects . Mr. Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children , but reward- ed or punished them , as they treated them well or ill . This was no other than entering them be ...
Page 74
... fancy to eat them : for should our coun- trymen refine upon the French never so little , it is not to be conceived to what unheard of torments , owls , cats , and frogs , may be yet reserved . When we grow up to men , we have another ...
... fancy to eat them : for should our coun- trymen refine upon the French never so little , it is not to be conceived to what unheard of torments , owls , cats , and frogs , may be yet reserved . When we grow up to men , we have another ...
Page 91
... fancy have often fallen into this mistake . They have been acknowledged to shine in an assembly , and sparkle in a discourse upon common topics , and thence have resolved to abandon reading and study but when they had lost their ...
... fancy have often fallen into this mistake . They have been acknowledged to shine in an assembly , and sparkle in a discourse upon common topics , and thence have resolved to abandon reading and study but when they had lost their ...
Page 97
... fancy , that young persons will find entertainment in acquiring the knowledge of them . Besides the common skill in accounts which is needful for every trader , there are useful rules and practices in arithmetic to which a gentleman ...
... fancy , that young persons will find entertainment in acquiring the knowledge of them . Besides the common skill in accounts which is needful for every trader , there are useful rules and practices in arithmetic to which a gentleman ...
Page 99
... fancy with a thousand beautiful images ; it enriches the soul with sublime senti- ments and refined ideas ; it fills the memory with a noble variety of language , and furnishes the tongue with speech and expression suited to every ...
... fancy with a thousand beautiful images ; it enriches the soul with sublime senti- ments and refined ideas ; it fills the memory with a noble variety of language , and furnishes the tongue with speech and expression suited to every ...
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Page 112 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 245 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Page 245 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
Page 243 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Page 112 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
Page 112 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 112 - Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one, must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men,...
Page 111 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 252 - You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
Page 111 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.