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Pagina 130
... . Our grandfathers knew the picture from the life ; we judge of the life by contemplating the picture . It is scarcely possible , in the regularity and com- The seventeenth . N. posure of the present time , to image the tumult 130 BUTLER.
... . Our grandfathers knew the picture from the life ; we judge of the life by contemplating the picture . It is scarcely possible , in the regularity and com- The seventeenth . N. posure of the present time , to image the tumult 130 BUTLER.
Pagina 131
Samuel Johnson. posure of the present time , to image the tumult of absurdity , and clamour of contradiction , which per- plexed doctrine , disordered practice , and disturbed both publick and private quiet , in that age when ...
Samuel Johnson. posure of the present time , to image the tumult of absurdity , and clamour of contradiction , which per- plexed doctrine , disordered practice , and disturbed both publick and private quiet , in that age when ...
Pagina 139
... present times ; and , perhaps , few will be found where the parallelism is better preserved than in this . The versification is , indeed , sometimes careless , but it is sometimes vig- orous and weighty . The strongest effort of his ...
... present times ; and , perhaps , few will be found where the parallelism is better preserved than in this . The versification is , indeed , sometimes careless , but it is sometimes vig- orous and weighty . The strongest effort of his ...
Pagina 145
... present age is very little inclined to favour any accounts of this kind , nor will the name of Au- brey much recommend it to credit : it ought not , however , to be omitted , because better evidence of a fact cannot easily be found ...
... present age is very little inclined to favour any accounts of this kind , nor will the name of Au- brey much recommend it to credit : it ought not , however , to be omitted , because better evidence of a fact cannot easily be found ...
Pagina 148
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profit- able , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profit- able , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
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