The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volums 7-8 |
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... body else . For these people's sake , I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes . It is very uneasy that we must necessarily be under persecution . Next to these bawlers , is a troublesome ...
... body else . For these people's sake , I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes . It is very uneasy that we must necessarily be under persecution . Next to these bawlers , is a troublesome ...
Pàgina 15
... body's mouth that spends any time in conversation . My friend Will Honeycomb has this expression very frequently ; and I never could understand by the story which follows , upon his mention of such a one , but that his man of wit and ...
... body's mouth that spends any time in conversation . My friend Will Honeycomb has this expression very frequently ; and I never could understand by the story which follows , upon his mention of such a one , but that his man of wit and ...
Pàgina 18
... bodies are beheld as a misfortune to human society that their make is so little durable . But to return more directly to my man of wit and pleasure . In all orders of men , wherever this is the chief character , the person who wears it ...
... bodies are beheld as a misfortune to human society that their make is so little durable . But to return more directly to my man of wit and pleasure . In all orders of men , wherever this is the chief character , the person who wears it ...
Pàgina 44
... body are to rectify the mistakes of his mind . I am confident that no boy , who will not be al- lured to letters without blows , will ever be brought to any thing with them . A great or good mind must necessarily be the worse for such ...
... body are to rectify the mistakes of his mind . I am confident that no boy , who will not be al- lured to letters without blows , will ever be brought to any thing with them . A great or good mind must necessarily be the worse for such ...
Pàgina 63
... a country girl , who was posted on an eminence at some distance from me , and was making so many odd grimaces , and writhing and distorting her whole body in so 6 strange a manner , as made me very desirous G 2 NO . 161 . 63 SPECTATOR .
... a country girl , who was posted on an eminence at some distance from me , and was making so many odd grimaces , and writhing and distorting her whole body in so 6 strange a manner , as made me very desirous G 2 NO . 161 . 63 SPECTATOR .
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Frases i termes més freqüents
acquaintance actions admired Æneid agreeable Alcibiades ambition appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART consider conversation creature DECEMBER 25 desire discourse endeavour entertainment esteem eye of Providence fame father favour gentleman give happiness head heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour husband Iliad imagination judgement kind lady leap letter live look lover Lover's Leap mankind manner marriage matter mean merit mind nature nerally never obliged observe occasion October 30 opinion ourselves OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion perfection person pleased pleasure poem poet pray present proper racters reader reason received renegado ridicule Sappho secret sense Socrates soul SPECTATOR speculation spirit tell temper Theodosius thing thought tion town turn VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous whole wife woman women word write young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 97 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pàgina 65 - ... seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage...
Pàgina 204 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Pàgina 65 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Pàgina 80 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Pàgina 148 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Pàgina 355 - Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.
Pàgina 317 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Pàgina 319 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Pàgina 66 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating : but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy...