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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... tell something of the success of the book , and could prognosti- cate with some probability , whether it should be finally damned to oblivion , or should be registered in the temple of immortality . Though it has been published only a ...
... tell something of the success of the book , and could prognosti- cate with some probability , whether it should be finally damned to oblivion , or should be registered in the temple of immortality . Though it has been published only a ...
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... tell you A plague of interruption ! I ordered myself to be denied , — and yet here is one that has broke in upon me again . He is a man of letters , and we have had a great deal of literary conversation . You told me 6 P. XI . ELEGANT ...
... tell you A plague of interruption ! I ordered myself to be denied , — and yet here is one that has broke in upon me again . He is a man of letters , and we have had a great deal of literary conversation . You told me 6 P. XI . ELEGANT ...
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... tell you the melancholy news , that your book has been very unfortunate ; for the public seem disposed to applaud it extremely . It was looked for by the foolish people with some impatience ; and the mob of literati are already ...
... tell you the melancholy news , that your book has been very unfortunate ; for the public seem disposed to applaud it extremely . It was looked for by the foolish people with some impatience ; and the mob of literati are already ...
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... telling me , that all the godly in Scotland abuse me for my account of John Knox and the Reformation . I suppose you are glad to see my paper end , and that I am obliged to conclude with , your humble servant , DAVID HUME . DAVID HUME ...
... telling me , that all the godly in Scotland abuse me for my account of John Knox and the Reformation . I suppose you are glad to see my paper end , and that I am obliged to conclude with , your humble servant , DAVID HUME . DAVID HUME ...
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... tell me , that , though you are still exposed to the attacks of melancholy , it is of the softer kind , and such as you would not desire to be rid of . I shall not , any further than you allow me , indulge my conjectures . You were ...
... tell me , that , though you are still exposed to the attacks of melancholy , it is of the softer kind , and such as you would not desire to be rid of . I shall not , any further than you allow me , indulge my conjectures . You were ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Adieu admire affectionate agreeable Almack's amusement BEAUCLERK believe Burton Pynsent certainly character compliments CURRAN DAVID HUME DEAR FRIEND DEAR LORD dear madam dear sir dine Duke EARL OF CHARLEMONT EDMUND BURKE England epistle favour fear feel flatter France French friendship Gerrard Street give gout happy hear HOLROYD honour hope HORACE WALPOLE Ireland JOSEPH HILL Lady Charlemont LADY ELIZABETH FOSTER Lausanne least letter live London Lord Rockingham LORD SHEFFIELD Lord Shelburne lordship manner ment Midgham month morning Nagle nature never obliged Paris parliament passed perhaps person pleased pleasure politics poor present prince Prince of Conti received remember sincerely soon spirit summer sure talk tell thank thing thought tion TOPHAM BEAUCLERK W. C. WILLIAM COWPER WALPOLE week winter wish write
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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.