The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 10
... present and future ages to attract the notice and favour of mankind . They are to ob- serve the alterations which time is always making in the modes of life , that they may gratify every ge- neration with a picture of themselves . Thus ...
... present and future ages to attract the notice and favour of mankind . They are to ob- serve the alterations which time is always making in the modes of life , that they may gratify every ge- neration with a picture of themselves . Thus ...
Pàgina 55
... present their daughters to the king , when they entered their eighteenth year ; an event which Almerine had often anticipated with impatience and hope , but now wished to prevent with solicitude and terror . The period , urged for- ward ...
... present their daughters to the king , when they entered their eighteenth year ; an event which Almerine had often anticipated with impatience and hope , but now wished to prevent with solicitude and terror . The period , urged for- ward ...
Pàgina 77
... : for Metrodorus , a philosopher of Athens , has shown that life has pleasures as well as pains ; and , having exhibited the present state of man in brighter colours , draws , with equal appear- H 2 107 . 77 ADVENTURER .
... : for Metrodorus , a philosopher of Athens , has shown that life has pleasures as well as pains ; and , having exhibited the present state of man in brighter colours , draws , with equal appear- H 2 107 . 77 ADVENTURER .
Pàgina 82
... present hour , and refer nothing to a distant time , which we are uncertain whether we shall reach : this every moralist may venture to inculcate , because it will always be approved , and because it is always forgotten . This rule , is ...
... present hour , and refer nothing to a distant time , which we are uncertain whether we shall reach : this every moralist may venture to inculcate , because it will always be approved , and because it is always forgotten . This rule , is ...
Pàgina 85
... present hour is more shameful and criminal , as no man is betrayed to it by error , but admits it by negligence . Of the insta- bility of life , the weakest understanding never thinks wrong , though the strongest often omits to think ...
... present hour is more shameful and criminal , as no man is betrayed to it by error , but admits it by negligence . Of the insta- bility of life , the weakest understanding never thinks wrong , though the strongest often omits to think ...
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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.