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- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such…
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
- A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
- A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.
- Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
- It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or…
- In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage…
- There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each…
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
- Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was…
- Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this…
- There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each…
- Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
- When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
- Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with…
- I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I…
- This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
- In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth…
- Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a…
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