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... curiosity . The character of Nugaculus 104. The original of flattery . The meanness of venal praise 105. The universal register , a dream 106. The vanity of an author's expectations . Rea- sons why good authors are sometimes neg- lected ...
... curiosity . The character of Nugaculus 104. The original of flattery . The meanness of venal praise 105. The universal register , a dream 106. The vanity of an author's expectations . Rea- sons why good authors are sometimes neg- lected ...
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... curiosity than the health or sickness of my aunts , of which we were careful to procure very exact and early intelligence . This visionary opulence for a while soothed our imagination , but afterwards fired our wishes , and exasperated ...
... curiosity than the health or sickness of my aunts , of which we were careful to procure very exact and early intelligence . This visionary opulence for a while soothed our imagination , but afterwards fired our wishes , and exasperated ...
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... curiosity , and engage our attention . the dusk of the morning we watch the rising of the sun , and see the day diversify the clouds , and open new prospects in its gradual advance . After a few hours , we see the shades lengthen , and ...
... curiosity , and engage our attention . the dusk of the morning we watch the rising of the sun , and see the day diversify the clouds , and open new prospects in its gradual advance . After a few hours , we see the shades lengthen , and ...
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... curiosity , than to relieve distress ; and how much he desired that his followers should rather ex- 1 cel in goodness than in knowledge . His precepts tend immediately to the rectification of the moral principles , and the direction of ...
... curiosity , than to relieve distress ; and how much he desired that his followers should rather ex- 1 cel in goodness than in knowledge . His precepts tend immediately to the rectification of the moral principles , and the direction of ...
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... curiosity , and an unshaken persever- ance in the acquisition of the productions of art and nature . It was observed , from my entrance into the world , that I had something uncommon in my disposition , and that there appeared in me ...
... curiosity , and an unshaken persever- ance in the acquisition of the productions of art and nature . It was observed , from my entrance into the world , that I had something uncommon in my disposition , and that there appeared in me ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Ajax amusements Aristotle attention Aureng-Zebe beauty caprice celebrated censure considered contempt critick curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dignity diligence discover domestick easily elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear February 16 felicity flatter folly fortune frequently Gabba gayety genius gratifications happiness heart honour hope hour human imagination inclination innu inquiry JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look mankind March 16 medicated gloves ment Milton mind miscarriage nature necessary negligence nerally ness never NUMB numbers observed once opinion OVID passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise pride publick racters RAMBLER reason regard rence reproach SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments sions sometimes soon sound species stancy suffer surely syllables terrour thing thou thought thousand tion truth TUESDAY turally turb vanity verse Virgil virtue writers
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Página 441 - 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 136 - 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.
Página 104 - ... harmonically conjoined, and, by consequence, the flow of the verse is longer interrupted, It is pronounced by Dryden, that a line of monosyllables is almost always harsh. This, with regard to our language, is evidently true, not because monosyllables cannot compose harmony, but because our monosyllables being of Teutonick original, or formed by contraction, commonly begin and end with consonants, as, • Every lower faculty Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste.
Página 443 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Página 435 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Página 148 - I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Página 120 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing.
Página 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Página 94 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite ; both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Página 105 - ... to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence...