Select British Classics, Volumen6J. Conrad, 1803 |
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Página 29
... gaiety with the hateful dross of grief and suspicion . To those whose weakness of spirits , or timidity of temper , subjects them to impressions from others , and who are apt to suffer by fascination , and c 2 THE RAMBLER . 29 No. LIX ...
... gaiety with the hateful dross of grief and suspicion . To those whose weakness of spirits , or timidity of temper , subjects them to impressions from others , and who are apt to suffer by fascination , and c 2 THE RAMBLER . 29 No. LIX ...
Página 62
... gaiety and with diligence , • and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest . In a short time we • remit our fervour , and endeavour to find some miti- ' gation of our duty , and some more easy means ...
... gaiety and with diligence , • and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest . In a short time we • remit our fervour , and endeavour to find some miti- ' gation of our duty , and some more easy means ...
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... gaiety of aspect , and every one imagined by her smile , which was impartial and general , was directed to himself , and triumphed in his own superiority to others , who had conceived the same confidence from the mistake . . I then ...
... gaiety of aspect , and every one imagined by her smile , which was impartial and general , was directed to himself , and triumphed in his own superiority to others , who had conceived the same confidence from the mistake . . I then ...
Página 92
... gaiety and unconcern ; the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another .. It is ... Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other ...
... gaiety and unconcern ; the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another .. It is ... Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other ...
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... gaiety are always drawing our attention away from a future state , some admonition is frequently necessary to recal it to our minds ; and what can more properly renew the impression than the examples of mortality which every day ...
... gaiety are always drawing our attention away from a future state , some admonition is frequently necessary to recal it to our minds ; and what can more properly renew the impression than the examples of mortality which every day ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration amusements ance appearance attention beauty censure common considered contempt corruption danger daugh delight Demochares desire diligence DRYDEN duty effect endeavour enquiry envy equally Eumenes excellence expect expence eyes Falsehood fancy favour fear felicity flatter folly fortune frequently friendship Gabba gaiety give gratifications happiness heart hexameter Homer honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined innu Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less libertine lives look mankind ments Milton mind misery nature necessary neglect neral ness never numbers nursling observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts racter Rambler reason regard rest retire riches rience rieties SATURDAY scarcely seldom sometimes soon sophism sound stancy suffer syllables tenderness thing thought thousand tion Truth TUESDAY tural vanity verse virtue vowels wisdom wish
Pasajes populares
Página 210 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 210 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights, and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine : the pair that clad Each shoulder broad came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold And colours dipp'd in heaven ; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, Sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood, And shook...
Página 201 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Página 62 - ... every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected...
Página 225 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Página 62 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Página 59 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way, bordered with flowers, which appeared to have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.
Página 166 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Página 137 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Página 37 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.