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Rousseau again competed, and though his essay neither gained the prize, nor created as lively an agitation as its predecessor had done, yet we may justly regard the second as a more powerful supplement to the first.
He returned it with a smile of indifference, and said, he had had a letter from Rome himself the day before, from his friend S ! I did not think this 'germane to the matter. Godwin pretends I never wrote anything worth a farthing but my 'Answers to Vetus, and that I fail altogether when I attempt to write an essay, or anything in a short compass. What can one do in such cases?
Neither their metre, nor language, nor thought had taken definite shape. Their only merit is that for the first time I had come to write what I really meant, just according to my pleasure. What if those compositions have no value, that pleasure certainly had. An Essay on Music I had been proposing to study for the bar when my father had recalled me home from England.
Nevertheless, the election might suffice as scapegoat. "Look a-yander, Justus," he said suddenly, pointing with the muzzle of his gun at the brilliant wayfarer of the skies, as if he might in another moment essay a shot. "That thar critter means mischief, sure ez ye air born." The other stepped back a pace or two, and lifted his head to look. "The comic?" he demanded.
Let us see if we can find some of its faults, as well as some of its beauties: First, we notice that it ends rather abruptly, as if it were unfinished. In his essay on "The Poetic Principle" Poe pointed out that many a poem fails of its effect by being too short.
Hum evidently considered him an intruder, and seemed to long to make a dive at him; but, with characteristic prudence, confined himself to threatening movements, which did not exactly hit. He saw evidently that he could not swallow him whole, and what might ensue from trying him piecemeal he wisely forbore to essay. Hum had his own favourite places and perches.
Religion incarnates the thought, language the imagination, war the resolution, the will, of a race. Reflecting then on the part which war has played in the history of the most deeply religious races, and of those States in which the attributes of awe, of reverence are salient features, it is surely idle enough to essay an arraignment of war as opposed to religion in general?
See ante, ii. 66, and Boswell's Hebrides, Nov. 1. See ante, p. 40. See ante, ii. 10. Boswell here alludes to the motto of his Journal: 'Oh! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame; Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? Pope's Essay on Man, iv. 383.
Now I despair of finding time for such a second reading as I designed, and so must write you at once my impressions after a single reading. The inference concerning your mind that I draw from your essay enhances the interest I previously felt in you. All that you tell me of yourself has the same effect.
This was an ironical piece, reducing to absurdity those theories of the excellence of uncivilised humanity which were gathering strength in France, and had been favoured in the philosophical works of Bolingbroke, then lately published. Burke's other work published in 1756, was his "Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful." At this time Burke's health broke down.
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