The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... desire is again placed at a distance , and our powers are again employed to ob- tain it with apparent success . Nor is the value of life less , than if our enjoyment did not thus consist in anticipation ; for by anticipation , the ...
... desire is again placed at a distance , and our powers are again employed to ob- tain it with apparent success . Nor is the value of life less , than if our enjoyment did not thus consist in anticipation ; for by anticipation , the ...
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... desire , and yet believe to be too dearly purchased by diligence and industry ; tradesmen who neglect their business , to squander in fashionable follies more than it can produce ; and swaggerers who rank themselves with gentlemen ...
... desire , and yet believe to be too dearly purchased by diligence and industry ; tradesmen who neglect their business , to squander in fashionable follies more than it can produce ; and swaggerers who rank themselves with gentlemen ...
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... desires and avoids , exactly like his neighbour ; resentment and ambition , ava- rice and indolence , discover themselves by the same symptoms , in minds distant a thousand years from one another . Nothing , therefore , can be more ...
... desires and avoids , exactly like his neighbour ; resentment and ambition , ava- rice and indolence , discover themselves by the same symptoms , in minds distant a thousand years from one another . Nothing , therefore , can be more ...
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... desire , and at her com- mand every foot became swift as that of the roe . But Almerine , whom ambition was thus jealous to obey , who was reverenced by hoary wisdom , and beloved by youthful beauty , was perhaps the most wretched of ...
... desire , and at her com- mand every foot became swift as that of the roe . But Almerine , whom ambition was thus jealous to obey , who was reverenced by hoary wisdom , and beloved by youthful beauty , was perhaps the most wretched of ...
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... desire had no choice , and affection no object , to be succes- sively forsaken after unresisted violation , and at last sink into the grave without having answered any nobler purpose than sometimes to have gratified the caprice of a ...
... desire had no choice , and affection no object , to be succes- sively forsaken after unresisted violation , and at last sink into the grave without having answered any nobler purpose than sometimes to have gratified the caprice of a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance ADVENTURER Almerine Almet appearance bagnio beauty Caliban Caprinus Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt countenance Covent Garden danger daughters DECEMBER 11 DECEMBER 29 desire diamonds sparkle Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN endeavour enjoy equal Euripides evil excellence eyes father favour fear felicity Flavilla folly fortune frequently gentleman Goneril gratify guilt happiness hast heart Hilario honour hope hour imagination impatient increased insensibility kind knew labour lady Lear less look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night obtain OVID passion perceived perpetual pity Plautus pleasure poet Posidippus possession present produced Prospero Quintilian reason received reflected Regan SATURDAY scarce scene sentiments servant Shakspeare Shelimah solicit Soliman sometimes soon Sophocles suffered superaddition tenderness thee Theocritus thou thought tion truth TUESDAY ulmo VIRG virtue wish wretch writers