English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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... morning for the benefit of his contemporaries , " with the hope of contributing to the diversion and improvement of his countrymen . - The Spectator was immensely successful , and when it finally ceased , the essay was firmly estab ...
... morning for the benefit of his contemporaries , " with the hope of contributing to the diversion and improvement of his countrymen . - The Spectator was immensely successful , and when it finally ceased , the essay was firmly estab ...
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... morning , as his manner was , to collect mast for his hogs , left his cottage in the care of his eldest son , Bo - bo , a great lubberly boy , who being fond of playing with fire , as younkers of his age commonly are , let some sparks ...
... morning , as his manner was , to collect mast for his hogs , left his cottage in the care of his eldest son , Bo - bo , a great lubberly boy , who being fond of playing with fire , as younkers of his age commonly are , let some sparks ...
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... morning , soon raked out another pig , and fairly rending it asunder , thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho - ti , still shouting out , " Eat , eat , eat the burnt pig , father , only taste ; O Lord ! " — with such ...
... morning , soon raked out another pig , and fairly rending it asunder , thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho - ti , still shouting out , " Eat , eat , eat the burnt pig , father , only taste ; O Lord ! " — with such ...
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... morning in Smithfield ? Now , as I had not seen it , and do not greatly care for such sort of exhibitions , I was obliged to return a cold negative . He seemed a little mortified , as well as astonished , at my decla- ration , as ( it ...
... morning in Smithfield ? Now , as I had not seen it , and do not greatly care for such sort of exhibitions , I was obliged to return a cold negative . He seemed a little mortified , as well as astonished , at my decla- ration , as ( it ...
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... morning avoca- tions1 had brought me into some sort of familiarity with the raw material ; and I was surprised to find how eloquent I was becoming on the state of the Indian market , when , presently , he dashed my incipient vanity to ...
... morning avoca- tions1 had brought me into some sort of familiarity with the raw material ; and I was surprised to find how eloquent I was becoming on the state of the Indian market , when , presently , he dashed my incipient vanity to ...
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Página 72 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Página 97 - Shovel ! a very gallant man !' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner, ' Dr. Busby, a great man ! he whipped my grandfather; a very great man!
Página ix - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 56 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished, in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Página 46 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Página 43 - ... like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work.
Página 77 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length said I, " Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant." The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing...
Página 119 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página ix - It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Página 57 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.