 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...SPECTATOR. No. 63. stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...reading better books, and by conversation with men v ,•' of judgment) they soon forsake them. '' I must not dismiss this subject without observing,... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 432 pages
...ceremonies in a bear's Sec lui Preface to Fresnoy's Art of IViu'.in?, garden. Yet these are tliey who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...they soon forsake them: and when the torrent from the mountain falls uo more, the swelling writer is reduced into his shallow bed, like the Mancanares at... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be master of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them,* I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke in the passage above mentioned... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden ; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned... | |
 | Virgil - 1819 - 488 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgement), they soon forsake them: and when the torrent from the mountain falls no more, the swelling... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...they soon forsake them: and when the torrent from the mountain falls no more, the swelling writer is reduced into his shallow bed, like the Mancanares at... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgement, they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr.... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 406 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgement, they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr.... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden ; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...their readers improve their stock of sense (as they maybe reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them.' I must... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 284 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
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... of two pounds per annum in Parnassus, and therefore are not privileged to poll. Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the... 
