New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers, Volumen6,Partes11-12C. and C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... called Candide , ou l'Optimisme . I shall give you a detail of it . - But what is all this to my book ? you say . My dear Mr. Smith , have patience : compose yourself to tranquillity : show yourself a philosopher in practice as well as ...
... called Candide , ou l'Optimisme . I shall give you a detail of it . - But what is all this to my book ? you say . My dear Mr. Smith , have patience : compose yourself to tranquillity : show yourself a philosopher in practice as well as ...
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... called yesterday at Millar's shop , in order to buy copies , and to ask questions about the author . The bishop of Peterborough said he had passed the evening in a company where he heard it extolled above all the books in the world ...
... called yesterday at Millar's shop , in order to buy copies , and to ask questions about the author . The bishop of Peterborough said he had passed the evening in a company where he heard it extolled above all the books in the world ...
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... called on him twice , with a view of talking with him about the matter , and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to Glasgow for I could not hope that he could offer you any terms which would tempt you to ...
... called on him twice , with a view of talking with him about the matter , and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to Glasgow for I could not hope that he could offer you any terms which would tempt you to ...
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... called billon , in France , composed of silver and copper , which has a ready cur- rency , though the separation of the two metals , and the reduction of them to their primitive state , would , I am told , be both expensive and trouble ...
... called billon , in France , composed of silver and copper , which has a ready cur- rency , though the separation of the two metals , and the reduction of them to their primitive state , would , I am told , be both expensive and trouble ...
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... Pantheon , whence the gentlemen proprietors exclude all beauty , unless * The name by which Mr. Holroyd's son called himself . VOL . VI . H unspotted and immaculate ( tautology , by the by ) LETTERS . 49 Mr Gibbon to Mr Holroyd 49-53.
... Pantheon , whence the gentlemen proprietors exclude all beauty , unless * The name by which Mr. Holroyd's son called himself . VOL . VI . H unspotted and immaculate ( tautology , by the by ) LETTERS . 49 Mr Gibbon to Mr Holroyd 49-53.
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 202 - He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected too one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend; think how unpleasant a situation ! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Página 48 - The Curchod (Madame Necker) I saw at Paris. She was very fond of me, and the husband particularly civil. Could they insult me more cruelly ? Ask me every evening to supper ; go to bed, and leave me alone with his wife — what an impertinent security ! it is making an old lover of mighty little consequence.
Página 342 - This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Página 266 - Until very lately, I had never heard any thing of your proceedings from others ; and when I did, it was much less than I had known from yourself, that you had been upon ill terms with the artists and virtuosi in Rome, without much mention of cause or consequence. • If you have improved these unfortunate quarrels to your advancement in your art, you have turned a very disagreeable circumstance to a very capital advantage. However you may have succeeded in this uncommon attempt, permit me to suggest...
Página 178 - ... through his fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this? Thus, however, it is, and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it,...
Página 308 - On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless Victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below ; And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Página 199 - Ellis's place, but he is saved. The city, however, have a mind to be out of humour; a paper has been fixed on the Royal Exchange, with these words, " No petticoat government, no Scotch minister, no Lord George Sackville ; " two hints totally unfounded, and the other scarce true.
Página 207 - Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilized ; their very language is polished since I lived among them. I attribute this to their more frequent intercourse with the world and the capital, by the help of good roads and postchaises, which, if they have abridged the king's dominions, have at least tamed his subjects...
Página 135 - We cannot do without you. If you do not come here, I will bring all the club over to Ireland, to live with you, and that will drive you here in your own defence. Johnson shall spoil your books, Goldsmith pull your flowers, and Boswell talk to you: stay then, if you can.
Página 133 - You see plainly, what he meant to say, but that happy turn of expression is peculiar to himself. Mr. Walpole says, that this story is a picture of Goldsmith's whole life. Johnson has been confined for some weeks in the Isle of Sky ; we hear that he was obliged to swim over to the main land, taking hold of a cow's tail. Be that as it may, Lady Dif has promised to make a drawing of it.