An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie: Including Many of His Original Letters, Том 2Archibald Constable and Company, 1807 |
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... greatest importance to the welfare of the city . I lost no time in communicating this intelli- gence to Dr Beattie . I well recollected , indeed , the aversion he had shown , from becoming a member of the university of Edinburgh , on a ...
... greatest importance to the welfare of the city . I lost no time in communicating this intelli- gence to Dr Beattie . I well recollected , indeed , the aversion he had shown , from becoming a member of the university of Edinburgh , on a ...
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... greatest . But I shall proceed to business , with- out further preamble . " Some years ago , I should have thought my- self a very great gainer , by exchanging my pre- sent office with a professorship in the university of Edinburgh ...
... greatest . But I shall proceed to business , with- out further preamble . " Some years ago , I should have thought my- self a very great gainer , by exchanging my pre- sent office with a professorship in the university of Edinburgh ...
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... greatest contempt , any idea " of your meeting with any thing disagreeable " in carrying this removal into execution . For , " he added , what I most firmly believe to be the truth , that he apprehended many of what ap- ' peared ...
... greatest contempt , any idea " of your meeting with any thing disagreeable " in carrying this removal into execution . For , " he added , what I most firmly believe to be the truth , that he apprehended many of what ap- ' peared ...
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... greatest regard for him , notwithstanding , on account of his learning and worth ; and I am pretty certain he has a re- gard for me ; but I thought it was best to speak plain , and put an end to the affair at once . Be assured , that I ...
... greatest regard for him , notwithstanding , on account of his learning and worth ; and I am pretty certain he has a re- gard for me ; but I thought it was best to speak plain , and put an end to the affair at once . Be assured , that I ...
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... greatest honour ; and I should be unworthy of them , if they did not give me the greatest pleasure . It is peculiarly fortu- nate , that her M - y should honour the sub- scription with her approbation . This may ex- clude , from a ...
... greatest honour ; and I should be unworthy of them , if they did not give me the greatest pleasure . It is peculiarly fortu- nate , that her M - y should honour the sub- scription with her approbation . This may ex- clude , from a ...
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Стр. 314 - Montagu should smile, New strains ere long shall animate thy frame. And her applause to me is more than fame ; For still with truth accords her taste refined. At lucre or renown let others aim, I only wish to please the gentle mind, Whom Nature's charms inspire, and love of human kind.
Стр. 320 - Beattie, — the most agreeable and amiable writer I * Hayley's « Life of Cowper,| Vol. III. p. 247. ever met with ; the only author I have seen, whose critical and philosophical researches are diversified and embellished by a poetical imagination, that makes even the driest subject and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in books.
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Стр. 164 - We are slaves to the language we write, and are continually afraid of committing gross blunders ; and, when an easy, familiar, idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot fence handles a sword...
Стр. 179 - When I first read Young, my heart was broken to think of the poor man's afflictions. Afterwards, I took it in my head, that where there was so much lamentation, there could not be excessive suffering ; and I could not help applying to him sometimes those lines of a song, " Believe me, the shepherd but feigns ; " He's wretched, to show he has wit." On talking with some of Dr Young's particular friends in England, I have since found that my conjecture was right; for that, while he was composing the...
Стр. 163 - We who live in Scotland are obliged to study English from books, like a dead language. Accordingly, when we write, we write it like a dead language, which we understand, but cannot speak...
Стр. 371 - Boswell's book is arrived at last, and I have just gone through it. He is very good to me, as Dr Johnson always was; and I am very grateful to both. But I cannot approve the plan of such a work. To publish a man's letters, or his conversation, without his consent, is not, in my opinion, quite fair : for how many things, in the hour of relaxation, or in friendly correspondence, does a man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again ; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse,...
Стр. 10 - ... day ; and the exhilarating song of " the lyric lark" in the mornings of summer used to fill him with delight. In 1755, his loneliness was cheered by the arrival of his brother David, who came to settle himself at the village of Fordoun. The celebrated and eccentric Francis Garden, Esq. (afterwards one of the judges of the supreme courts of civil and criminal law in Scotland, by the title of Lord Gardenstone,) who was then sheriff of the county of Kincardine, and occasionally resided in the neighbourhood...