The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 |
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... form presumptions in our own favour , and imagine that obstruction and impediment will give way be- fore us . The first repulses rather inflame vehe- mence than teach prudence ; a brave and generous mind 34 No. 111 . RAMBLER .
... form presumptions in our own favour , and imagine that obstruction and impediment will give way be- fore us . The first repulses rather inflame vehe- mence than teach prudence ; a brave and generous mind 34 No. 111 . RAMBLER .
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Alexander Chalmers. mence than teach prudence ; a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness , or submits to sap the difficulties which it expected to subdue by storm . Before disappointments have enforced the ...
Alexander Chalmers. mence than teach prudence ; a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness , or submits to sap the difficulties which it expected to subdue by storm . Before disappointments have enforced the ...
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... may be certainly escaped by prudence and resolution , and must therefore be recounted rath- er as consolations to those who are less liberally endowed , than as discouragements to such as are born No. 111 . 37 RAMBLER .
... may be certainly escaped by prudence and resolution , and must therefore be recounted rath- er as consolations to those who are less liberally endowed , than as discouragements to such as are born No. 111 . 37 RAMBLER .
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... prudence or modesty have made most eminent , who have ever complained of the inconveniences of an amiable form ? or would have purchased safety by the loss of charm ? Neither grace of person , nor vigour of under- standing , are to be ...
... prudence or modesty have made most eminent , who have ever complained of the inconveniences of an amiable form ? or would have purchased safety by the loss of charm ? Neither grace of person , nor vigour of under- standing , are to be ...
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... prudence and circumspection , that after six years the will was made , and Juvenculus was declared heir . But unhappily , a month afterwards , retiring at night from his uncle's chamber , he left the door open behind him : the old man ...
... prudence and circumspection , that after six years the will was made , and Juvenculus was declared heir . But unhappily , a month afterwards , retiring at night from his uncle's chamber , he left the door open behind him : the old man ...
Términos y frases comunes
Ajax alac amusement Arim Aristotle attention Aureng-Zebe beauty calamity celebrated censure common considered contempt cowardice curiosity Dagon danger daugh delight desire dignity discovered dread easily elegance eminence endeavour envy equal excellence expected eyes fame favour fear felicity fill folly force fortune frequently gain genius gratify happiness heart honour hope hour human idle ignorance Iliad imagination inclination indulgence inquiry JUNE 25 justly knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lest Long con mankind medicated gloves ment mind minth miscarriage misery nature necessary negligence nerally ness never observed once opinion OVID passions perhaps perpetual pleasure portunity praise produce prudence publick raise RAMBLER reason regard reproach Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sion solicited sometimes soon suffer sufficient superaddition surely tain thing thou thought tion TUESDAY Virgil virtue wars of Troy writers
Pasajes populares
Página 190 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Página 182 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Página 189 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Página 102 - To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction. But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his stanza. His style was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Jonson boldly pronounces him
Página 188 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Página 50 - For, who can congratulate himself upon a life passed 'without some act more mischievous to the peace or prosperity of others, than the theft of...
Página 189 - Out, out, hyaena! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee...
Página 271 - The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.
Página 163 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Página 186 - Depress'd and overthrown as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust.