English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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... sure was the house of Ho - ti to be in a blaze ; and Ho - ti himself , which was the more remarkable , instead of chastising his son , seemed to grow more indul- gent to him than ever . At length they were watched , the terrible mystery ...
... sure was the house of Ho - ti to be in a blaze ; and Ho - ti himself , which was the more remarkable , instead of chastising his son , seemed to grow more indul- gent to him than ever . At length they were watched , the terrible mystery ...
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... sure the wisdom of the practice . It might impart a gusto . I remember an hypothesis , argued upon by the young students , when I was at St. Omer's , 2 1 Particular . 2 Formerly a French college to which English boys sometimes went ...
... sure the wisdom of the practice . It might impart a gusto . I remember an hypothesis , argued upon by the young students , when I was at St. Omer's , 2 1 Particular . 2 Formerly a French college to which English boys sometimes went ...
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... sure , who should get at the first table , Rochester1 in his maddest days could not have done the humors of the scene with more spirit than my friend . After some general expression of thanks for the honor the company had done him , his ...
... sure , who should get at the first table , Rochester1 in his maddest days could not have done the humors of the scene with more spirit than my friend . After some general expression of thanks for the honor the company had done him , his ...
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... sure Pain is not far off . " But , notwithstanding this marriage was very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in sending them among mankind . To remedy , therefore , this in- convenience ...
... sure Pain is not far off . " But , notwithstanding this marriage was very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in sending them among mankind . To remedy , therefore , this in- convenience ...
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... sure of , and such a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil . It ...
... sure of , and such a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil . It ...
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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.