The Lounger: A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1785 and 1786, Том 1

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, and W. Creech, at Edinburgh., 1804 - Всего страниц: 314

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Стр. 263 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Стр. 163 - As few endowments were necessary to judge, so few have been supposed necessary to compose a Novel ; and all whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no extent of information or depth of learning to cultivate, but in which a heated imagination, or an excursive fancy, were alone sufficient to succeed...
Стр. 166 - In the enthusiasm of sentiment there is much the same danger as in the enthusiasm of religion, of substituting certain impulses and feelings of what may be called a visionary kind, in the place of real practical duties, which in morals, as in theology, we might not improperly denominate good works.
Стр. 165 - The principal danger of Novels, as forming a mistaken and pernicious system of morality, seems to me to arise from that contrast between one virtue or excellence and another, that war of duties which is to be found in many of them, particularly in that species called the Sentimental.
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Стр. 126 - ... me they found it very palatable. Like his taste in this instance, his other senses appear to be subject to much uncertainty. His seeing and hearing are at some times remarkably acute ; at others he seems hardly to possess those faculties at all. Like the Chacrelas, in the island of Java, his sight is generally much quicker in the night than the day-time ; and the later the hour, it appears to be the clearer and the more distinct.
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Стр. 235 - ... with him. The line which he quotes, brilliant, forcible, and bold, would have remained with the audience, not to recal the punishment of guilt, but to mark the pleasure of revenge. But it is not only from...
Стр. 250 - I flatter myself you will not think yourself disgraced by the alliance, and that you will permit me to claim kindred with you. Of this you may be assured, I would not do it, did I not entertain a favourable opinion of you ; and having nothing to ask, you may consider my desire to be ranked among your friends as a mark of approbation. Know then, Sir, that the person who has now the honour to address you is a member of the Mirror Club. Although long since dead as an author, you will readily believe...

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