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...now, he may be held first to have devised it as a mode of history. The six writers, whose sketches are collected under the general title of the August... ...es, their merit was such in the eyes of the discerning, that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them. In another instance of his l... ...t is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction—not to say, suggesti... ...ies than could be had in the metropolis. Cato the elder, and all the early writers, notice the quality of such levies as being far superior to those d... ...al romancers, in order to heighten the interest of the tale, or by ethical writers, in order to point and strengthen the moral. *Some of these traditi...

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...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...ints of domestic morals, se- vere and high toned, (I say it in defiance of writers, such as Lord Byron, Mr. Hazlitt, &c., who hated alike the just and... ...great quar- ter in London, Mary-le-bone, as ludicrously ungrammatical. The writers had learned (or were learning) French; and they had thus become awa...

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...ere is indeed not much good to be said. The peer of the eighteenth-century writers (even when, as in Fielding’s case, there was no reason why they sho... ...go of honour,” he is admirable, and up to his time almost unique. Ordinary writers and ordinary readers have never been quite content to admit that br... ...s have generally consulted the Latin only; which, in some of the few Greek writers I have read, is intolerably bad. And as the English translators, fo... ... therefore, what was his opinion of Lucan in general, and in what class of writers he ranked him? The author stared a little at this question; and, af... ...ecency, and profaneness with which the age abounds, and with which all bad writers supply the defect of genius.” “Pugh!” cries the colonel, “I never c...

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...in such instances as this, where nothing but the inspiration with which we writers are gifted, can possibly enable any one to make the discovery. ... ... more in fashion; yet we intend in it rather to pursue the method of those writers, who profess to disclose the revo lutions of countries, than to im... ...s determination. Mr. Jones had somewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth cer tainly inhabit som... ...n the stage, as he relieved the audience from worse com pany. Judicious writers have always practised this art of con trast with great success. I ... ... Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forer...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate...

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...he 8th of October, was buried in the cemetery of the Estrella. Of not many writers perhaps does a clearer notion, as far as their personality goes, ex... ...er sis- ter-in-law that might have been, are surprisingly human where most writers would have made them sticks. And the rest require no allowance. Lad... ...rs to tragedy. And perhaps, that we have no more instances of it among the writers of antiquity, is owing to the loss of this great pat- tern, which, ... ...e reader, if he considers how wonderfully it hath been mis- taken, even by writers who have professed it: for to what but such a mistake can we attrib... ...Having thus distinguished Joseph Andrews from the pro- ductions of romance writers on the one hand and burlesque writers on the other, and given some ...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ...

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...ith, and was as great a King as En gland had known for some time. The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his co... ...ere he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. Now, some writers tell us that Edward the Confessor, who was by this time old and had... ...committed upon earth than in wretched England in those nineteen years. The writers who were living then describe them fearfully. They say that the cas... ...inhabitants should be re spected on pain of death. It is agreed by French writers, to his lasting renown, that even while his soldiers were suffering... ... have been no end to tyranny for hundreds of years. One of the most active writers on the Church’s side against the King was a member of his own famil...

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...France her war-cry is, Mount Joy! A fine cry indeed, but one which certain writers have disfigured, and which signifies, “Joy it is not of the earth, ... ...e statue was still to be seen when Rouen was taken by the English, and the writers of the period have in- cluded this history among the notable events...

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...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi... ... it exhibits; and we find him men- tioning in that tract, that many of the writers whose testimonies were to be produced as au- thorities, were select... ...et it be remembered, as an admonition to the genus irritabile of dramatick writers, that this great man, instead of peevishly complaining of the bad t... ... The style of Johnson was, undoubtedly, much formed upon that of the great writers in the last century, Hooker, Bacon, Sanderson, Hakewell, and others...

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...n, and have been more frequently taken notice of by histori- ans and other writers. We must generally, therefore, content our- selves with them, not a... ...mpence, however, seems to have been considered as the whole of it, by many writers who have collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient t... ...requently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Their writers on agriculture, indeed, the lovers and pro- moters of high cultivat... ...rticular years, which have generally been recorded by historians and other writers, on account of their extraordinary dearness or cheapness, and from ... ... price of the fiars of each year, than at any certain fixed price. But the writers who have collected the prices of corn in ancient times seem frequen...

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...’d and strengthen’d the clamor for more money, and they happening to have no writers among them that were able to answer it, their opposition slacken’... ...h in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numer ous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for... ...view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers; and sometimes publish’d little pieces of my own, which had been ... ...r country. Whenever I was solicited to insert anything of that kind, and the writers pleaded, as The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 89 they gener... ...d Jas. Ralph was still alive; that he was esteem’d one of the best political writers in England; had been employ’d in the dispute between Prince Frede...