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The Character Of Waller, As A Man And A Poet.
elegiac notes from the lyre ; not to sound the trumpet , and inflame the soul . Hitherto we have remarked our Author ' s beauties ; we must now mention his faults . Undistinguished praise is as weak as'it is unjust ; it neither does credit to the encomiast , nor to the person commended . Grammatical inaccuracies are not unfrequent in Waller . The
literary amusement of the gentleman was not sufficiently tempered with the care and circumspection of the Author . He sometimes prefers a point more brilliant than acute to a manly and forcible sentiment ; and sometimes violates the simplicity of nature for the conceit of antithesis . In his fondness of simile he is apt to lose the merit of a good by the addition of a bad one in which he sacrifices truth and
-; pro priety to sound and splendour . These faults , however , we must , in a great measure , impute to the rudeness of the age , with which greater poets than Waller complied ; partly from negligence , or the immediate influence of example , and partly from necessity . "Waller ' s works will always hold a considerable rank in English poetry . His great abilities as a statesman and an orator are
indisputable ; and his moral character will be viewed with lenity by those whose minds are actuated by humanity , and who are properly acquainted with their own failings ; who consider the violence of the times in which he lived , and who are accustomed to think before they decide .
A Method Of Encreasing Potatoes,
A METHOD OF ENCREASING POTATOES ,
BY MR . JOHN LOCKETT or DONNINGTON , HUAK NEWBUHY , As recorded in tbe ljtb Vol . of the Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufactures , and Commerce , and for which the Society returned him their thanks .
SIR , HAVING lately seen in the news-papers various methods proposed in order to increase and multi ply Potatoes in the most effectual manner , 1 take the liberty of sending you an experiment which I have repeatedly made ; also a method to procure plants in a very cheap and easy way ; not after such as the present winterbut after a mild
, winter , when the frost has penetrated but a small distance below the . arface of the ground . First , as to the Experiment : I took three potatoes , the 17 th of December 1793 , and put them into a small cask , and placed the cask in a cellar ; the 10 th of March I took otf 15 shoots from them , and planted them with a setting or dibbling stick , in the same manner as
cabbage plants , about one foot square : the r 6 th of April , I took 21 more shoots , from the same three potatoes , and planted them as before : on the 22 d of May I took 2 $ shoots more and planted them also , and then washed and boiled the said three potatoes , which proved very good to eat . I had , from the said 61 shoots , as many potatoes as weighed a . lbs . notwithstanding the rooks did me much damage .
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The Character Of Waller, As A Man And A Poet.
elegiac notes from the lyre ; not to sound the trumpet , and inflame the soul . Hitherto we have remarked our Author ' s beauties ; we must now mention his faults . Undistinguished praise is as weak as'it is unjust ; it neither does credit to the encomiast , nor to the person commended . Grammatical inaccuracies are not unfrequent in Waller . The
literary amusement of the gentleman was not sufficiently tempered with the care and circumspection of the Author . He sometimes prefers a point more brilliant than acute to a manly and forcible sentiment ; and sometimes violates the simplicity of nature for the conceit of antithesis . In his fondness of simile he is apt to lose the merit of a good by the addition of a bad one in which he sacrifices truth and
-; pro priety to sound and splendour . These faults , however , we must , in a great measure , impute to the rudeness of the age , with which greater poets than Waller complied ; partly from negligence , or the immediate influence of example , and partly from necessity . "Waller ' s works will always hold a considerable rank in English poetry . His great abilities as a statesman and an orator are
indisputable ; and his moral character will be viewed with lenity by those whose minds are actuated by humanity , and who are properly acquainted with their own failings ; who consider the violence of the times in which he lived , and who are accustomed to think before they decide .
A Method Of Encreasing Potatoes,
A METHOD OF ENCREASING POTATOES ,
BY MR . JOHN LOCKETT or DONNINGTON , HUAK NEWBUHY , As recorded in tbe ljtb Vol . of the Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufactures , and Commerce , and for which the Society returned him their thanks .
SIR , HAVING lately seen in the news-papers various methods proposed in order to increase and multi ply Potatoes in the most effectual manner , 1 take the liberty of sending you an experiment which I have repeatedly made ; also a method to procure plants in a very cheap and easy way ; not after such as the present winterbut after a mild
, winter , when the frost has penetrated but a small distance below the . arface of the ground . First , as to the Experiment : I took three potatoes , the 17 th of December 1793 , and put them into a small cask , and placed the cask in a cellar ; the 10 th of March I took otf 15 shoots from them , and planted them with a setting or dibbling stick , in the same manner as
cabbage plants , about one foot square : the r 6 th of April , I took 21 more shoots , from the same three potatoes , and planted them as before : on the 22 d of May I took 2 $ shoots more and planted them also , and then washed and boiled the said three potatoes , which proved very good to eat . I had , from the said 61 shoots , as many potatoes as weighed a . lbs . notwithstanding the rooks did me much damage .