The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volum 7 |
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Pàgina 32
... discourse ; but instead of this , we find that conversation is ne- ver so much straitened and confined as in numerous assemblies . When a multitude meet together on any subject of discourse , their debates are taken up chiefly with ...
... discourse ; but instead of this , we find that conversation is ne- ver so much straitened and confined as in numerous assemblies . When a multitude meet together on any subject of discourse , their debates are taken up chiefly with ...
Pàgina 33
... discourse , is that which passes between two persons who are familiar and intimate friends . On these occasions , a man gives a loose to every passion and every thought that is uppermost , discovers his most retired opinions of persons ...
... discourse , is that which passes between two persons who are familiar and intimate friends . On these occasions , a man gives a loose to every passion and every thought that is uppermost , discovers his most retired opinions of persons ...
Pàgina 43
... discourse of poetry , speaks of it in the follow- ing words : I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas , that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice ...
... discourse of poetry , speaks of it in the follow- ing words : I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas , that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice ...
Pàgina 56
... discourse ( as much as I have been able to learn of it ) turns altogether upon such adventures as have passed in their own assembly ; of members who have taken the glass in their turns for a week to- gether , without stirring out of the ...
... discourse ( as much as I have been able to learn of it ) turns altogether upon such adventures as have passed in their own assembly ; of members who have taken the glass in their turns for a week to- gether , without stirring out of the ...
Pàgina 70
... discourse gave me very many reflections , when I had left her company . Among others , I could not but consider with some attention , the false impressions the gene- rality ( the fair sex more especially ) have of what should be ...
... discourse gave me very many reflections , when I had left her company . Among others , I could not but consider with some attention , the false impressions the gene- rality ( the fair sex more especially ) have of what should be ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 136 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Pàgina 235 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Pàgina 225 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Pàgina 232 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Pàgina 216 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.
Pàgina 280 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Pàgina 232 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
Pàgina 211 - ... approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Pàgina 210 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
Pàgina 218 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.