Henry, Bind 3

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A.K. Newman, 1825
 

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Side 34 - There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Side 222 - Rome did not revolt from the profession. It remained for modern times to complete their triumphs, by admitting female candidates into the lists; from that moment Nature took possession of her rights; the finest feelings were consigned to the fairest forms; the very Muse herself appeared in her own sex and person; beauty, that gives being to the poet's rapturous vision, a voice that guides his language to the heart, smiles that enchant, tears that dissolve us, with looks that fascinate, and dying...
Side 2 - Tis hard indeed to toil, as we sometimes do, to our own loss and disappointment; to sweat in the field of fame, merely to reap a harvest of chaff, and pile up reams of paper for the worm to dine upon. It is a cruel thing to rack our brains for nothing, run our jaded fancies to a stand-still, and then lie down at the conclusion of our race, a carcase for the critics. And what is our crime all the while? A mere...
Side 5 - ... those sanguine flatterers, who, in the excess of their respect for our persons, cry down our performances, give evident proof how much higher they had pitched their expectations of what our talents would produce, than our productions could make good ; but though in their zeal for our reputations, they tell us how ill we write, they seldom neglect at the same time to shew us how we might have written still worse. Some over-wise people have pretended to...
Side 6 - ... under their management, as to be no longer the employ of a gentleman ? As for our readers, on whom we never fail to bestow the terms of candid...
Side 2 - They should consider, that the man, who makes a book, makes a very pretty piece of furniture ; and if they will but...
Side 8 - Was this law put in force againft authors, few of us, 1 doubt, would be found able to (land under the weight of our own unpurchafed works. But while the public are contented with things as they are, where is the wonder if the reform is never made by us till they begin it in themfelves ? Let their tafte lead the fafhion, and our produirions rmiít accord to it.
Side 1 - I hope the candid reader now and then calls to mind how much more nimbly he travels over these pages than the writer of them did. When our...
Side 115 - It is a very sacred correspondence that takes place between the mind of the author and the mind of the reader; it is not like the slight and casual intercourse we hold with our familiars and acquaintance, where any prattle serves to fill up a few social minutes, and set the table in a roar...
Side 3 - If once they could bring their tempers to this charming complacency, they might depend upon having books in plenty; authors would multiply like polypusses, and the press would be the happiest mother in the kingdom.

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