As a perfect Tragedy is the noblest Production of human Nature, so it is capable of giving the Mind one of the most delightful and... most improving Entertainments. A virtuous Man (says Seneca) strugling [sic] with Misfortunes, is such a Spectacle as Gods might look upon with Pleasure: And such a Pleasure it is which one meets with in the Representation of a well-written Tragedy. Diversions of this kind wear out of our Thoughts every thing that is mean and little. They cherish and cultivate that Humanity which is the Ornament of our Nature. They soften Insolence, sooth [sic] Affliction, and subdue the Mind to the Dispensations of Providence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But ancient insolence is wont to bear an insolence that has its youth among human miseries, sooner or later, when the fixed time o...f birth is come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect an...d with ease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...... You carry your fortune in your own hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an o...pportunity to take from you what you really have.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate to... his fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without F...erocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »