The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 11
... attention upon scenes thus perpetually changing , who cannot catch some of the figures before they are made vulgar by reiterated descriptions . It has been discovered by Sir Isaac Newton , that the distinct and primogenial colours are ...
... attention upon scenes thus perpetually changing , who cannot catch some of the figures before they are made vulgar by reiterated descriptions . It has been discovered by Sir Isaac Newton , that the distinct and primogenial colours are ...
Pàgina 22
... attention to any scheme of length . 66 I am , in short , one of those heroic Adventurers , who have thought proper to distinguish themselves by the titles of Buck , Blood , and Nerve . When I am in the country , I am always on horseback ...
... attention to any scheme of length . 66 I am , in short , one of those heroic Adventurers , who have thought proper to distinguish themselves by the titles of Buck , Blood , and Nerve . When I am in the country , I am always on horseback ...
Pàgina 47
... attention , and that my health would soon be destroyed by the torment and distraction of extensive business . I could image to myself no happiness , but in vacant jollity and uninterrupted leisure ; nor entertain my friends with any ...
... attention , and that my health would soon be destroyed by the torment and distraction of extensive business . I could image to myself no happiness , but in vacant jollity and uninterrupted leisure ; nor entertain my friends with any ...
Pàgina 49
... attention , till I can with some degree of decency grow impatient for my dinner . If I could dine all my life , I should be happy ; I eat not because I am hungry , but because I am idle : but alas ! the time quickly comes when I can eat ...
... attention , till I can with some degree of decency grow impatient for my dinner . If I could dine all my life , I should be happy ; I eat not because I am hungry , but because I am idle : but alas ! the time quickly comes when I can eat ...
Pàgina 61
... attention , and when it was ended , she perceived that the eyes of the multitude were fixed upon her . One of the horsemen at the same time alighted , and with great ceremony entreated her to enter a chariot which was in the retinue ...
... attention , and when it was ended , she perceived that the eyes of the multitude were fixed upon her . One of the horsemen at the same time alighted , and with great ceremony entreated her to enter a chariot which was in the retinue ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance beauty Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt courage danger daughter Dean Swift Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoy enjoyment equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gratify happiness Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope Hope and Fear hour idleness imagination increase insensibility JOHN HAWKESWORTH Johnson kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetually pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion Soliman solitude sometimes soon Story suffered Sycorax tenderness thee thou thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue Warton wish wretched writer Xerxes
Passatges populars
Pàgina 109 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Pàgina 111 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Pàgina 151 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Pàgina 152 - No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Pàgina 107 - Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Pàgina 93 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Pàgina 149 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Pàgina 112 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; — [To Edgar. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.