Letters on Several Subjects, Volum 2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 |
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Pàgina 86
... pofitions on Joy , Pity , and Revenge : I will venture to affirm , that the transitions . produced in his foul fhall be as fure and fudden as thofe mentioned by the poet to have paffed in the breaft of Alexan- der . Let him then ...
... pofitions on Joy , Pity , and Revenge : I will venture to affirm , that the transitions . produced in his foul fhall be as fure and fudden as thofe mentioned by the poet to have paffed in the breaft of Alexan- der . Let him then ...
Pàgina 89
... pofitive de- termination . For my own part , I confefs I do not doubt of this philofopher's being in the right ; and I believe that those who ex- amine attentively the prefent character of the Italians , will find , that Plato's ...
... pofitive de- termination . For my own part , I confefs I do not doubt of this philofopher's being in the right ; and I believe that those who ex- amine attentively the prefent character of the Italians , will find , that Plato's ...
Pàgina 150
... pofitively bad : I do not mean in a moral fenfe ; but in respect of fucceeding with mankind . They are weak , false , and incapable of producing their end . Like his politics , they are all founded on art and cunning . Now , I believe ...
... pofitively bad : I do not mean in a moral fenfe ; but in respect of fucceeding with mankind . They are weak , false , and incapable of producing their end . Like his politics , they are all founded on art and cunning . Now , I believe ...
Pàgina 155
... pofitive ftep to do himself harm .. Let him addrefs himself to any man or woman in the company , he fhall be fure of a favourable reception ; let him fay what he will , he fhall be fure of receiv- ing polite , nay obliging answers ...
... pofitive ftep to do himself harm .. Let him addrefs himself to any man or woman in the company , he fhall be fure of a favourable reception ; let him fay what he will , he fhall be fure of receiv- ing polite , nay obliging answers ...
Pàgina 189
... pofitive . I do not know them as a political na- tion . I know them only as a focial people ; and as a focial people they have no equal . LET- LETTER XXVI . I We must all die . Have [ 189 ] Perhaps what is faid of them on that ...
... pofitive . I do not know them as a political na- tion . I know them only as a focial people ; and as a focial people they have no equal . LET- LETTER XXVI . I We must all die . Have [ 189 ] Perhaps what is faid of them on that ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 84 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Pàgina 190 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 42 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Pàgina 148 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Pàgina 40 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Pàgina 147 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Pàgina 51 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Pàgina 197 - Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
Pàgina 194 - ... them in ; or to place them in an attitude, in which they have not been already placed. But talking of a nation, if one did not say something about so considerable a part of it, the subject must appear mutilated and imperfect. As brevity is the soul of wit...
Pàgina 176 - I'll do them juftice. Let every man who knows that nation fpeak of it as he found it; if he lived in their intimacy for years (as I did), and if he found them ill-natured, ill-mannered, treacherous, and cowardly, let him fpeak his mind. I quarrel with no man who judges for himfelf, and who fpsaks the truth.