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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... elegant and classical inscription , for Dr Beattie's monument at Aberdeen , which will be found hereafter , is of Dr Gregory's composition . I have already mentioned † the intimate friendship with which the late Dr Gregory honour- ed me ...
... elegant and classical inscription , for Dr Beattie's monument at Aberdeen , which will be found hereafter , is of Dr Gregory's composition . I have already mentioned † the intimate friendship with which the late Dr Gregory honour- ed me ...
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... elegant of all his compositions . " You are right in conjecture , in regard to Dr He had , it seems , heard some account of a subscription , and wrote of it to Mr. of 2 . whose letter to me was in these words : " I take the liberty to ...
... elegant of all his compositions . " You are right in conjecture , in regard to Dr He had , it seems , heard some account of a subscription , and wrote of it to Mr. of 2 . whose letter to me was in these words : " I take the liberty to ...
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... elegant , and deserves to be care- fully studied for the style , as well as for the mat- ter . But his poetry is in general cold , and pro- saic , and inharmonious . Yet his tragedy of ' Cato ' has great merit ; and his comedy of ' The ...
... elegant , and deserves to be care- fully studied for the style , as well as for the mat- ter . But his poetry is in general cold , and pro- saic , and inharmonious . Yet his tragedy of ' Cato ' has great merit ; and his comedy of ' The ...
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... elegant- ly and concisely expressed , will make an impres- sion on the head and heart , and efface the false principles those letters had introduced into the minds of the unwary . " " Lord Chesterfield was an example of the jus- LIFE OF ...
... elegant- ly and concisely expressed , will make an impres- sion on the head and heart , and efface the false principles those letters had introduced into the minds of the unwary . " " Lord Chesterfield was an example of the jus- LIFE OF ...
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... elegant , as what you have said on the occasion , in prose . You justly remark , that any bird of character , from the eagle to the sky- lark , from the owl to the mock - bird , might sym- bolise with one or other of the attributes of ...
... elegant , as what you have said on the occasion , in prose . You justly remark , that any bird of character , from the eagle to the sky- lark , from the owl to the mock - bird , might sym- bolise with one or other of the attributes of ...
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Сторінка 199 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone...
Сторінка 199 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 188 - I have had several conversations with him on the subject of the voyage, and once asked him, whether he had ever read the history of it ? He told me, he had read all the history, except the description of their sufferings during the run from...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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,...
Сторінка 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...