“It is labour only that gives relish to pleasure.”—L. Murray cor. “Groves are never more agreeable than in the opening of spring.”—Id. “His Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, soon made him known to the literati.”—See Blair’s Lect., pp. 34 and 45. “An awful precipice or tower from which we look down on the objects which are below.”—Dr. Blair cor. “This passage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; and for no other cause than this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together.”—Id. “I purpose to make some observations.”—Id. “I shall here follow the same method that I have all along pursued.”—Id. “Mankind at no other time resemble one an other so much as they do in the beginnings of society.”—Id. “But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in the reading of a hexameter line.”—Id. “The first thing, says he, that a writer either of fables or of heroic poems does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality.”—Id. “The fourth book has always been most justly admired, and indeed it abounds with beauties of the highest kind.”—Id. “There is in the poem no attempt towards the painting of characters.”—Id. “But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the constant introducing of them in pairs and by opposites, give too theatrical and affected an air to the piece.”—Id. “Neither of them is arbitrary or local.”—Kames cor. “If the crowding of figures is bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon an other.”—Id. “The crowding-together of so many objects lessens the pleasure.”—Id. “This therefore lies not in the putting-off of the hat, nor in the making of compliments.”—Locke cor. “But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews used the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and for a consonant.”—Wilson cor. “But if a solemn and a familiar pronunciation really exist in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both?”—J. Walker cor. “By making sounds follow one an other agreeably to certain laws.”—Gardiner cor. “If there were no drinking of intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards.”—Peirce cor. “Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was of being thought to have none.”—Goldsmith cor. “Lysander, having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an arsenal for the building of galleys.”—Id. “The use of these signs is worthy of remark.”—Brightland cor. “He received me in the same manner in which I would receive you.” Or