Select British Classics, Volumen6J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... things from their origin to their period , and compare means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; show the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real ...
... things from their origin to their period , and compare means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; show the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real ...
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... thing that terminated on this side of the grave , was received with coldness and indifference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing it , than from any opinion that it deserved value : it had little more prevalence ...
... thing that terminated on this side of the grave , was received with coldness and indifference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing it , than from any opinion that it deserved value : it had little more prevalence ...
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... thing more than .... Nay , if you are angry , Madam Steeple , you may walk off . ' When once the forms of civility are violated , there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency . My mamma made this appearance of resentment a ...
... thing more than .... Nay , if you are angry , Madam Steeple , you may walk off . ' When once the forms of civility are violated , there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency . My mamma made this appearance of resentment a ...
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... things , and though I do not pretend to give laws to the legislators of mankind , or to limit the range of those powerful minds that carry light and heat through all the regions of knowledge , yet I have long thought that the greatest ...
... things , and though I do not pretend to give laws to the legislators of mankind , or to limit the range of those powerful minds that carry light and heat through all the regions of knowledge , yet I have long thought that the greatest ...
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... things ; but the mere power of saving what is already in our hands , must be easy of acquisition to every mind ; and as the example of Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it , a thousand instances will every ...
... things ; but the mere power of saving what is already in our hands , must be easy of acquisition to every mind ; and as the example of Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it , a thousand instances will every ...
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.