The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... frequent alterations on the surface of life that the show , while we are busied in delineating it , vanishes from the view , and a new set of objects succeeds , doomed to the same shortness of duration with the former : thus curiosity ...
... frequent alterations on the surface of life that the show , while we are busied in delineating it , vanishes from the view , and a new set of objects succeeds , doomed to the same shortness of duration with the former : thus curiosity ...
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... frequently busy , when it can only imbitter disappointment and heighten calamity ; and more frequently slumbers when it might increase the tri- umph of success , or animate insensibility to happi- ness , than is generally perceived . An ...
... frequently busy , when it can only imbitter disappointment and heighten calamity ; and more frequently slumbers when it might increase the tri- umph of success , or animate insensibility to happi- ness , than is generally perceived . An ...
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James Ferguson. constable , and insult the justice : for these feats I am frequently kicked , beaten , pumped , prosecuted , and imprisoned ; but Tim is no flincher ; and if he does not get fame , blood ! he will deserve it . 66 ' I - am ...
James Ferguson. constable , and insult the justice : for these feats I am frequently kicked , beaten , pumped , prosecuted , and imprisoned ; but Tim is no flincher ; and if he does not get fame , blood ! he will deserve it . 66 ' I - am ...
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... frequently used the terms buck and blood , and have given some account of the characters which are thus denominated ; but you have not considered them as the last stages of a regular pro- gression , nor taken any notice of those which ...
... frequently used the terms buck and blood , and have given some account of the characters which are thus denominated ; but you have not considered them as the last stages of a regular pro- gression , nor taken any notice of those which ...
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... frequently practised alone , but it was a long time before I could swear so much to my own satisfaction in company as by myself . My labour , however , was not with- out its reward ; it recommended me to the notice of the ladies , and ...
... frequently practised alone , but it was a long time before I could swear so much to my own satisfaction in company as by myself . My labour , however , was not with- out its reward ; it recommended me to the notice of the ladies , and ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance beauty Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt courage danger daughter Dean Swift Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoy enjoyment equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gratify happiness Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope Hope and Fear hour idleness imagination increase insensibility JOHN HAWKESWORTH Johnson kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetually pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion Soliman solitude sometimes soon Story suffered Sycorax tenderness thee thou thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue Warton wish wretched writer Xerxes
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Página 109 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Página 111 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Página 151 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Página 152 - No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Página 107 - Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Página 93 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Página 149 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Página 112 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; — [To Edgar. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.