The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 5
... moment his hope was fixed upon an object which industry could not ob- tain , he determined to be industrious no longer to draw drink for a dirty and boisterous rabble , was a slavery to which he now submitted with reluctance , and he ...
... moment his hope was fixed upon an object which industry could not ob- tain , he determined to be industrious no longer to draw drink for a dirty and boisterous rabble , was a slavery to which he now submitted with reluctance , and he ...
Pàgina 15
... moment he heard my question , he started from his seat , sprang towards me , caught me by the hand , and told me , in an ecstasy , that he was in heaven . What difference in Curio's circumstances pro- duced this difference in his ...
... moment he heard my question , he started from his seat , sprang towards me , caught me by the hand , and told me , in an ecstasy , that he was in heaven . What difference in Curio's circumstances pro- duced this difference in his ...
Pàgina 24
... moment I dismounted , down dropped Dido , by Jove : and here am I all alive and merry , my old boy ! " I'll tell thee what ; I was a hellish ass t'other day . I shot a damn'd clean mare through the head , for jumping out of the road to ...
... moment I dismounted , down dropped Dido , by Jove : and here am I all alive and merry , my old boy ! " I'll tell thee what ; I was a hellish ass t'other day . I shot a damn'd clean mare through the head , for jumping out of the road to ...
Pàgina 53
... moment they beheld it , they were solicitous only to conceal it from the world ; they considered the com- plicated deformity of unhappy Shelimah as some reproach to themselves ; and as they could not hope to change her appearance , they ...
... moment they beheld it , they were solicitous only to conceal it from the world ; they considered the com- plicated deformity of unhappy Shelimah as some reproach to themselves ; and as they could not hope to change her appearance , they ...
Pàgina 59
... moments she learned how it had been applied . The sudden terror which now seized her hastened the effect of the ... moment increased , while she discovered the mischief which had been intended against him , and which had now fallen ...
... moments she learned how it had been applied . The sudden terror which now seized her hastened the effect of the ... moment increased , while she discovered the mischief which had been intended against him , and which had now fallen ...
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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.