The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 12
... believed he should not be greatly depressed by a disappointment . The gentleman to whom he was recommended , received him with great courtesy ; but upon reading the letter , he changed counte- nance , and discovered indubitable tokens ...
... believed he should not be greatly depressed by a disappointment . The gentleman to whom he was recommended , received him with great courtesy ; but upon reading the letter , he changed counte- nance , and discovered indubitable tokens ...
Pàgina 13
... believed no other could counterbalance ; he , therefore , received the bounty of his patron without much emotion ; he regarded his success as an event produced , like rain and sunshiné , by the common and regular operation of natural ...
... believed no other could counterbalance ; he , therefore , received the bounty of his patron without much emotion ; he regarded his success as an event produced , like rain and sunshiné , by the common and regular operation of natural ...
Pàgina 60
... believed to have another object . He did not , therefore , take away the life of Nourassin for a crime to which he himself had furnished the temptation ; but as some punishment was necessary as a sanction to the laws , he con- demned ...
... believed to have another object . He did not , therefore , take away the life of Nourassin for a crime to which he himself had furnished the temptation ; but as some punishment was necessary as a sanction to the laws , he con- demned ...
Pàgina 72
... believed he had deserved the reproach which he suffered , and de- spised himself for the fear which he could not shake off . In the meantime the gale increased , and in less than an hour it blew a storm . Jack , who watched every ...
... believed he had deserved the reproach which he suffered , and de- spised himself for the fear which he could not shake off . In the meantime the gale increased , and in less than an hour it blew a storm . Jack , who watched every ...
Pàgina 136
... heightened by the anticipation of future ; my ima- gination was perpetually wandering among the scenes of poetry and romance ; I appropriated every luxu- rious description of happy lovers ; and believed that whatever 136 117 . ADVENTURER .
... heightened by the anticipation of future ; my ima- gination was perpetually wandering among the scenes of poetry and romance ; I appropriated every luxu- rious description of happy lovers ; and believed that whatever 136 117 . ADVENTURER .
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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.