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Article COMMENTS ON STERNE. ← Page 9 of 9 Article ANECDOTES OF THE LATE HUGH KELLY, Esq. Page 1 of 6 →
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Comments On Sterne.
disgraceful instances , show that Laughter is the best crisis of an ardent disputation . The talents for so delicate an office as that of a literary Censor , are too great and numerous to be often assembled in one person . Kabelais wanted decency . Sterne learning , and Voltaire fidelity . Lucian alone supported the character properly , in those pieces which appear to be justly ascribed to him . As the narrowness of Party
yet infests Philosophy , a writer with his qualifications would still do good service in the Cause of Truth . . For wit and good sense united , as in him they eminently were , can attack nothing successfully which ought not to be demolished . ¦¦
Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE HUGH KELLY , Esq .
IF genius owes a considerable part of its estimation to the difficulties it has to encounter , we think the object of this sketch deserves a niche in our Biography . He had not only his education to establish , but his independence at the same time ; pursuits which too frequently traverse each other , and stint both in their approach to perfection . However Kelly ' s family may be well-descendedthe fortunes of
, his house fell into such decay at the time of his birth ( 1739 ) , that his Father was under the necessity of keeping a tavern in Dublin . Here it was our Author saw bis first birth-day ; and here it was , from the constant influx of players who frequented the house , that he caught the first idea of the stage , which afterwards turned out so profitable to himselfand creditable to his talents .
, ' Such are the accidents which sometimes remembered , and , perhaps , sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius * . " * The business of his Father , encumbered as he was with other children , and perhaps still retaining a smack of that Irish gentility
which but ill brooks to a change of inferior condition , disabled him from giving his son a first-rate education—it was not , however , wholly neglected . He was taught reading and writing , both of which " he rather excelled in ; he likewise went through the Latin Grammar ; " a circumstance , " as Doctor Johnson justly observes , ' * which forms so considerable a part of education , that independent of any , thing else , a man who learns that is the better for it as long as he lives . "
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Comments On Sterne.
disgraceful instances , show that Laughter is the best crisis of an ardent disputation . The talents for so delicate an office as that of a literary Censor , are too great and numerous to be often assembled in one person . Kabelais wanted decency . Sterne learning , and Voltaire fidelity . Lucian alone supported the character properly , in those pieces which appear to be justly ascribed to him . As the narrowness of Party
yet infests Philosophy , a writer with his qualifications would still do good service in the Cause of Truth . . For wit and good sense united , as in him they eminently were , can attack nothing successfully which ought not to be demolished . ¦¦
Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE HUGH KELLY , Esq .
IF genius owes a considerable part of its estimation to the difficulties it has to encounter , we think the object of this sketch deserves a niche in our Biography . He had not only his education to establish , but his independence at the same time ; pursuits which too frequently traverse each other , and stint both in their approach to perfection . However Kelly ' s family may be well-descendedthe fortunes of
, his house fell into such decay at the time of his birth ( 1739 ) , that his Father was under the necessity of keeping a tavern in Dublin . Here it was our Author saw bis first birth-day ; and here it was , from the constant influx of players who frequented the house , that he caught the first idea of the stage , which afterwards turned out so profitable to himselfand creditable to his talents .
, ' Such are the accidents which sometimes remembered , and , perhaps , sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius * . " * The business of his Father , encumbered as he was with other children , and perhaps still retaining a smack of that Irish gentility
which but ill brooks to a change of inferior condition , disabled him from giving his son a first-rate education—it was not , however , wholly neglected . He was taught reading and writing , both of which " he rather excelled in ; he likewise went through the Latin Grammar ; " a circumstance , " as Doctor Johnson justly observes , ' * which forms so considerable a part of education , that independent of any , thing else , a man who learns that is the better for it as long as he lives . "