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... ignorant of the value of those subaltern endowments , yet have hitherto neglected to recommend good - humour to the world , though a little reflection will show you that it is the balm of being , the quality to which all that adorns or ...
... ignorant of the value of those subaltern endowments , yet have hitherto neglected to recommend good - humour to the world , though a little reflection will show you that it is the balm of being , the quality to which all that adorns or ...
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... may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base extraction , " the child of vanity , and nursling of ignorance . NUMB . 75. TUESDAY , December 4 , 1750 . C 4 N ° 74 . 23 THE RAMBLER .
... may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base extraction , " the child of vanity , and nursling of ignorance . NUMB . 75. TUESDAY , December 4 , 1750 . C 4 N ° 74 . 23 THE RAMBLER .
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... ignorance , from the prevalence of false taste , and the encroachment of barbarity . Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel , or which appear before their own eyes ; and as there has never been a time of ...
... ignorance , from the prevalence of false taste , and the encroachment of barbarity . Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel , or which appear before their own eyes ; and as there has never been a time of ...
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... ignorance , or always envious of superiour abili- ties . The miseries of the learned have been related by themselves , and since they have not been found exempt from that partiality with which men look upon their own actions and ...
... ignorance , or always envious of superiour abili- ties . The miseries of the learned have been related by themselves , and since they have not been found exempt from that partiality with which men look upon their own actions and ...
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... ignorance or uncertainty would immediately involve the world in confusion and distress ; but which duty ought to be most esteemed , we may continue to debate with- out inconvenience , so all be diligently performed as there is ...
... ignorance or uncertainty would immediately involve the world in confusion and distress ; but which duty ought to be most esteemed , we may continue to debate with- out inconvenience , so all be diligently performed as there is ...
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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...