Select British Classics, Volumen14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... innocent of the same slips or misconducts in their own behaviour ? But were there none of these dispositions in others to censure a famous man , nor any such miscarriages in himself , yet would he meet with no small trouble in keeping ...
... innocent of the same slips or misconducts in their own behaviour ? But were there none of these dispositions in others to censure a famous man , nor any such miscarriages in himself , yet would he meet with no small trouble in keeping ...
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... tubs and barrels are to a whale , that he may let the ship sail on without disturbance , while he diverts himself with those innocent amusements . I have been so very scrupulous in this particular of 54 THE SPECTATOR .
... tubs and barrels are to a whale , that he may let the ship sail on without disturbance , while he diverts himself with those innocent amusements . I have been so very scrupulous in this particular of 54 THE SPECTATOR .
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... innocent method of enjoy- ing a man's self , and turning out of the general tracks wherein you have crowds of rivals , there are those who pursue their own way out of a sourness and spirit of contradiction : these men do every thing 62 ...
... innocent method of enjoy- ing a man's self , and turning out of the general tracks wherein you have crowds of rivals , there are those who pursue their own way out of a sourness and spirit of contradiction : these men do every thing 62 ...
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... innocent forsooths , yes's , and't please you's , and she would do her endea- vour , moved the good old lady to take her out of the hands of a country bumkin her brother , and hire her for her own maid . I staid till I saw them all ...
... innocent forsooths , yes's , and't please you's , and she would do her endea- vour , moved the good old lady to take her out of the hands of a country bumkin her brother , and hire her for her own maid . I staid till I saw them all ...
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my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks , and smutting one another . Our friend Will Wimble is as merry as any of them , and shews a thousand roguish tricks upon these oc- casions . I was very much ...
my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks , and smutting one another . Our friend Will Wimble is as merry as any of them , and shews a thousand roguish tricks upon these oc- casions . I was very much ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance action Adam and Eve admired Æneid agreeable angels appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances creature critics desire discourse dress entertainment Enville epic poem fable fallen angels fame father fault favour FEBRUARY 27 female fortune genius gentleman give grace greatest happiness head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady letter lived look lover MADAM mankind manner marriage ment Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion opinion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion perfect person pleased pleasure poet pray present proper Quintilian racters reader reason reflections reputation Satan sentiments shew speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime tell Thammuz thing thou thought tion told town turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words young
Pasajes populares
Página 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 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. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Página 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Página 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Página 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Página 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Página 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Página 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.