The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation;: With an Abstract and Catalogue of Their Works; Their Various Editions; and the Judgement of the Learn'd Concerning Them, Volumen1James Watson, 1708 |
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Página xii - Annals, in pleasure and instruction it equals, or even excels, both of them. It is not only commended by ancient practice to celebrate the memory of great and worthy men, as the best thanks which posterity can pay them, but also the examples of virtue are of more vigour, when they are thus contracted into individuals. As the sunbeams...
Página xii - ... a single story, strike upon our minds a stronger and more lively impression, than the scattered relations of many men, and many actions ; and by the same means that they give us pleasure, they afford us profit too.
Página xiii - ... for the loftiness and gravity of general history, when the actions related shall require that manner of expression. But there is withal a descent into minute circumstances, and trivial passages of life, which are natural to this way of writing, and which the dignity of the other two will not admit.
Página 282 - For it is not glory, it is not riches, neither is it honour, but it is liberty alone that we fight and contend for, which no honest man will lose but with his life.
Página 283 - Holyness shall be too credulous of the English misrepresentations, and not give firm credit to what we have said, nor desist to favour the English to our destruction...
Página 282 - God, who only can heal after wounds, to restore us to libertie, from these innumerable calamities, by our most Serene Prince, King and Lord, Robert, who for the delivering of his people and his own rightful inheritance from the enemies hand, did, like another Josua, or Maccabeus, most cheerfully undergo all manner of toyle, fatigue, hardship, and hazard.
Página xii - Aristotle commends the unity of action in a poem ; because the mind is not capable of digesting many things at once, nor of conceiving fully any more than one idea at a time. Whatsoever distracts the pleasure, lessens it ; and as the reader is more concerned at one man's fortune . than those of many, so likewise the writer is more capable of making a perfect work if he confine himself to this narrow compass.
Página xii - ... which neither of them have. The style of it is various, according to the occasion. There are proper places in it for the plainness and nakedness of narration, which is ascribed to annals ; there is also room reserved for the loftiness and gravity of general history, when the actions related shall require that manner of expression. But there is withal a descent into minute...
Página 264 - And by his acts o'ercome his fate ; His soul death had not power to kill ; His noble deeds the world do fill With lasting trophies of his name. O ! hadst thou virtue lov'd or fame Thou couldst not have...
Página 282 - Consent and Assent of all the People made him our King and Prince. To him we are obliged and resolved to adhere in all things, both upon the account of his right and his own merit, as being the person who hath restored the people's safety, in defence of their liberties. But after all, if this Prince shall leave...