Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... custom and fashion . This dispute has pro- duced a celebrated question , Whether ridi- cule be or be not a test of truth ? I give this question a place here , because it tends to illustrate the nature of ridicule . The question stated ...
... custom and fashion . This dispute has pro- duced a celebrated question , Whether ridi- cule be or be not a test of truth ? I give this question a place here , because it tends to illustrate the nature of ridicule . The question stated ...
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... custom , have acquired a degree of veneration or esteem to which naturally it is not intitled , what are the proper means for wiping off the artificial colouring , and displaying the subject in its true light ? Reasoning , as observed ...
... custom , have acquired a degree of veneration or esteem to which naturally it is not intitled , what are the proper means for wiping off the artificial colouring , and displaying the subject in its true light ? Reasoning , as observed ...
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... wit . A certain petulant Greek , objecting to Anacharsis that he was a Scy- thian : True , says Anacharsis , my country disgraces me , but you disgrace your coun- try . CHAP . 8 I CHAP . XIV . Custom and Habit . 80 Ch . XIII . WIT .
... wit . A certain petulant Greek , objecting to Anacharsis that he was a Scy- thian : True , says Anacharsis , my country disgraces me , but you disgrace your coun- try . CHAP . 8 I CHAP . XIV . Custom and Habit . 80 Ch . XIII . WIT .
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... custom ? Yet these frequently take place , not only in the same person , but even with relation to the same subject : when new , it is inchanting ; familiarity renders it indifferent ; and custom , after a longer familiarity , makes it ...
... custom ? Yet these frequently take place , not only in the same person , but even with relation to the same subject : when new , it is inchanting ; familiarity renders it indifferent ; and custom , after a longer familiarity , makes it ...
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... Custom respects the action , habit the actor . By custom we mean , a frequent re- iteration of the fame act ; and by habit , the effect that custom has on the mind or body . This effect may be either active , witness the dexterity ...
... Custom respects the action , habit the actor . By custom we mean , a frequent re- iteration of the fame act ; and by habit , the effect that custom has on the mind or body . This effect may be either active , witness the dexterity ...
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Page 99 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 216 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 224 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 219 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 403 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Page 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 207 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 209 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 219 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 405 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...