The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volum 14 |
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Pàgina 4
... sense turning fool for our sakes ; but this happened to our friend , and I expect his attendance whenever I go to church , to court , to the play , or the park . This is a sacri- fice due to us women of genius , who have the elo- quence ...
... sense turning fool for our sakes ; but this happened to our friend , and I expect his attendance whenever I go to church , to court , to the play , or the park . This is a sacri- fice due to us women of genius , who have the elo- quence ...
Pàgina 10
... sense of the distresses and miseries of man- kind , which he was born to redress . In just scorn of the trivial glories and light ostentations of power , that glorious instrument of Providence moves , like that , in a steady , calm ...
... sense of the distresses and miseries of man- kind , which he was born to redress . In just scorn of the trivial glories and light ostentations of power , that glorious instrument of Providence moves , like that , in a steady , calm ...
Pàgina 22
... sense but that of feeling and taste . Others have still an additional one of hearing ; others of smell , and others of sight . It is wonderful to ob- serve by what a gradual progress the world of life advances through a prodigious ...
... sense but that of feeling and taste . Others have still an additional one of hearing ; others of smell , and others of sight . It is wonderful to ob- serve by what a gradual progress the world of life advances through a prodigious ...
Pàgina 26
... sense of , though I cannot express it wholly , I am all over softness , and am obliged to retire and give way to a few sighs , and tears before I can be easy . I cannot but recommend the subject of male widowhood to you , and beg of you ...
... sense of , though I cannot express it wholly , I am all over softness , and am obliged to retire and give way to a few sighs , and tears before I can be easy . I cannot but recommend the subject of male widowhood to you , and beg of you ...
Pàgina 27
... sense of these pleasing perplexities ; you might communicate to the guilty part of mankind that they are incapable of the happiness which is in the very sorrows of the virtuous . But pray spare me a little longer ; give me leave to tell ...
... sense of these pleasing perplexities ; you might communicate to the guilty part of mankind that they are incapable of the happiness which is in the very sorrows of the virtuous . But pray spare me a little longer ; give me leave to tell ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Pàgina 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pàgina 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Pàgina 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Pàgina 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Pàgina 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Pàgina 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Pàgina 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pàgina 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Pàgina 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.