The British Essayists, Volumen8Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... creature that died at the same time for his crimes , bemoaned himself unmanfully , he rebuked him with this question , " Is it no consolation to such a man as thou art to die with Phocion ? At the instant when he was to die , they asked ...
... creature that died at the same time for his crimes , bemoaned himself unmanfully , he rebuked him with this question , " Is it no consolation to such a man as thou art to die with Phocion ? At the instant when he was to die , they asked ...
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... creature in the world . He never made any imper- tinent show of his valour , and then he had an excel- lent genius for the world in every other kind . had letters from him ( here I felt in my pockets ) that exactly spoke the Czar's ...
... creature in the world . He never made any imper- tinent show of his valour , and then he had an excel- lent genius for the world in every other kind . had letters from him ( here I felt in my pockets ) that exactly spoke the Czar's ...
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... creature in the world , lest what happened between him and a great beauty should ever be known . Yet again he comforts him- self " Hang the jade her woman . If money can keep the slut trusty I will do it , though I mortgage every acre ...
... creature in the world , lest what happened between him and a great beauty should ever be known . Yet again he comforts him- self " Hang the jade her woman . If money can keep the slut trusty I will do it , though I mortgage every acre ...
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... creatures live in the most ex- treme misery together ; the master knows not how to preserve respect , nor the servant how to give it . It seems this person is of so sullen a nature , that he knows but little satisfaction in the midst of ...
... creatures live in the most ex- treme misery together ; the master knows not how to preserve respect , nor the servant how to give it . It seems this person is of so sullen a nature , that he knows but little satisfaction in the midst of ...
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... creatures in the world , and she the unhappiest woman living , for she shall not be drest in any time . Thus we stand not knowing what to do , when our good lady with all the patience in the world tells us as plain as she can speak ...
... creatures in the world , and she the unhappiest woman living , for she shall not be drest in any time . Thus we stand not knowing what to do , when our good lady with all the patience in the world tells us as plain as she can speak ...
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Página 123 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Página 141 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!
Página 123 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see, rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
Página 126 - ... waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Página 125 - I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Página 217 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 122 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on 'the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 217 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 130 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those* that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
Página 122 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.