The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volums 25-26T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Pàgina 42
... king- dom , fought battles only for barren victory , and in- vaded nations only that he might make his way through them to new invasions : but having been fortunate in the execution of his projects , he died with the name of Alexander ...
... king- dom , fought battles only for barren victory , and in- vaded nations only that he might make his way through them to new invasions : but having been fortunate in the execution of his projects , he died with the name of Alexander ...
Pàgina 43
... king's credulity to useless expenses , and risked his life in seeking countries that had no existence ? how would those that had rejected his proposals , have triumphed in their acuteness ? and when would his name have been mentioned ...
... king's credulity to useless expenses , and risked his life in seeking countries that had no existence ? how would those that had rejected his proposals , have triumphed in their acuteness ? and when would his name have been mentioned ...
Pàgina 52
... King's Bench prison . These characters , Sir , though they are distinct , yet do not at all differ , otherwise than as shades of the same colour , and though they are stages of a regular progression , yet the whole progress is not made ...
... King's Bench prison . These characters , Sir , though they are distinct , yet do not at all differ , otherwise than as shades of the same colour , and though they are stages of a regular progression , yet the whole progress is not made ...
Pàgina 64
... king- dom , was offended . Farimina was inexorable and cruel ; the number of her votaries , therefore , was few . Elfarina was placable and benevolent ; and fairies of this character were observed to be supe- rior in power , whether ...
... king- dom , was offended . Farimina was inexorable and cruel ; the number of her votaries , therefore , was few . Elfarina was placable and benevolent ; and fairies of this character were observed to be supe- rior in power , whether ...
Pàgina 67
... 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 , like every thing future ...
... 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 , like every thing future ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 26 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Pàgina 8 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Pàgina 138 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Pàgina 139 - 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 179 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward ; and, to deal plainly, I fear, I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks, I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful : for I am mainly ignorant What place this is : and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments ; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night : Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Pàgina 179 - Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
Pàgina 53 - In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Pàgina 180 - 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 8 - Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art ; With pity, and with terror, tear my heart ; And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where.
Pàgina 179 - 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.