The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volumen21810 |
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... suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life . These reflections were lately excited in my mind , by an evening's conversation with my friend Pro- spero , who , at the age of fifty - five , has ...
... suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life . These reflections were lately excited in my mind , by an evening's conversation with my friend Pro- spero , who , at the age of fifty - five , has ...
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... exhortations may , with equal propriety , be applied to better purposes ; it may be at least inculcated that pleasures are more safely B 2 postponed postponed than virtues , and that greater loss is suffered N ° 71 . THE RAMBLER . 3.
... exhortations may , with equal propriety , be applied to better purposes ; it may be at least inculcated that pleasures are more safely B 2 postponed postponed than virtues , and that greater loss is suffered N ° 71 . THE RAMBLER . 3.
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... suffered his benevolence to be defeated for want of quickness and diligence . It is lamented by Hearne , the learned antiquary of Oxford , that this general forgetfulness of the fra- gility of life , has remarkably infected the students ...
... suffered his benevolence to be defeated for want of quickness and diligence . It is lamented by Hearne , the learned antiquary of Oxford , that this general forgetfulness of the fra- gility of life , has remarkably infected the students ...
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... suffered to live unsolicited , and by accumulating the interest of their portions grew every day richer and prouder . My father pleased himself with foreseeing that the possessions of those ladies must revert at last to the hereditary ...
... suffered to live unsolicited , and by accumulating the interest of their portions grew every day richer and prouder . My father pleased himself with foreseeing that the possessions of those ladies must revert at last to the hereditary ...
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... suffering a day to pass , in which I did not compute how much my chance was improved of being rich to - morrow . At last the se- cond lady died , after a short illness , which yet was long enough to afford her time for the disposal of ...
... suffering a day to pass , in which I did not compute how much my chance was improved of being rich to - morrow . At last the se- cond lady died , after a short illness , which yet was long enough to afford her time for the disposal of ...
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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...