The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volums 25-26T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Pàgina 9
... lady who had been brought to this solitude in her infancy , and had never beheld a man except her father . As I have affirmed that Shakspeare's chief excel- lence is the consistency of his characters , I will exemplify the truth of this ...
... lady who had been brought to this solitude in her infancy , and had never beheld a man except her father . As I have affirmed that Shakspeare's chief excel- lence is the consistency of his characters , I will exemplify the truth of this ...
Pàgina 97
... , he gave me the follow- ing account of the several inhabitants . The lady in the first apartment had prevailed upon her husband , a man of study and economy * 109 . 97 ADVENTUrer . Observations on the Tempest concluded Warton.
... , he gave me the follow- ing account of the several inhabitants . The lady in the first apartment had prevailed upon her husband , a man of study and economy * 109 . 97 ADVENTUrer . Observations on the Tempest concluded Warton.
Pàgina 98
... lady complained , that the rights of quality and fortune were invaded , that her credit was lost with the fashionable world , and that ignorance and brutality had robbed her of the pleasures of a reasonable being , and rendered her the ...
... lady complained , that the rights of quality and fortune were invaded , that her credit was lost with the fashionable world , and that ignorance and brutality had robbed her of the pleasures of a reasonable being , and rendered her the ...
Pàgina 99
... lady had for many years as- siduously attended an old gouty uncle , had assented to all his absurdities , and humoured all his foibles , in full expectation of being made his executrix ; when happening one day to affirm that his gruel ...
... lady had for many years as- siduously attended an old gouty uncle , had assented to all his absurdities , and humoured all his foibles , in full expectation of being made his executrix ; when happening one day to affirm that his gruel ...
Pàgina 100
... Lady Harriet Brittle , whose opinion was for- merly decisive at all auctions , where she was usually appealed to about the genuineness of porcelain . She purchased at an exorbitant price , a Mandarin and a Jos , that were the envy of ...
... Lady Harriet Brittle , whose opinion was for- merly decisive at all auctions , where she was usually appealed to about the genuineness of porcelain . She purchased at an exorbitant price , a Mandarin and a Jos , that were the envy of ...
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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.