Select British Classics, Volumen12J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... common life , it is then in its highest use and perfection ; and it is to such as your Lordship , that the sciences owe the esteem which they have with the active part of mankind . Knowledge of books in recluse men , is like that sort ...
... common life , it is then in its highest use and perfection ; and it is to such as your Lordship , that the sciences owe the esteem which they have with the active part of mankind . Knowledge of books in recluse men , is like that sort ...
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... common enemy , what decrees ought not to be made in favour of them ? Since I am recollecting upon this subject such pas- sages as occur to my memory out of ancient authors , I cannot omit a sentence in the celebrated funeral oration 10 ...
... common enemy , what decrees ought not to be made in favour of them ? Since I am recollecting upon this subject such pas- sages as occur to my memory out of ancient authors , I cannot omit a sentence in the celebrated funeral oration 10 ...
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... common forms of distress , and the idle pretenders to sorrow , about courts , who wanted only supplies to luxury , should never obtain favour by his means : but the distresses which arise from the many inexplicable occurrences that ...
... common forms of distress , and the idle pretenders to sorrow , about courts , who wanted only supplies to luxury , should never obtain favour by his means : but the distresses which arise from the many inexplicable occurrences that ...
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... common peo- ple , and has been the delight of most Englishmen in some part of their age . This song is a plain simple copy of nature , destitute of the helps and ornaments of art . The tale of it is a pretty tragical story , and pleases ...
... common peo- ple , and has been the delight of most Englishmen in some part of their age . This song is a plain simple copy of nature , destitute of the helps and ornaments of art . The tale of it is a pretty tragical story , and pleases ...
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... common humanity not to be affected with them . As for the circumstance of the Robin - red - breast , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to shew the genius of the author , amidst all his simplicity , it is just the same kind ...
... common humanity not to be affected with them . As for the circumstance of the Robin - red - breast , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to shew the genius of the author , amidst all his simplicity , it is just the same kind ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration agreeable appear beauty behaviour body character Constantia conversation creature daugh death discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour entertain Eudoxus eyes fair sex father favour fortune friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra greatest happy hear heard heart honest honour hope human humble servant humour Hyde-park imagination impertinent kind lady Laertes learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master mind nature never night obliged observe occasion ordinary OVID paper particular pass passion person Pharamond Phocion Pindar Plato platonic love pleased pleasure present proper racter reader reason ribaldry sense shew sorrow soul speak SPECTATOR tell temper thee Theodosius thing thou thought tion told Tom Short town Uranius VIRG Virgil virtue walking whig whole woman women words young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 326 - 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 a hundred.
Página 324 - 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.
Página 108 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered the inquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves. This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him; so...
Página 173 - Law of him for fishing in that Part of the River. My Friend Sir ROGER heard them both, upon a round Trot ; and after having paused some time told them, with the Air of a Man who would not give his Judgment rashly, that much might be said on both Sides.
Página 109 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom. I have just now mentioned? and without staying for my answer told me, that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon. 'My friend...
Página 342 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon...
Página 133 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then inquires how such a one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do, whom he does not see at church, which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person that is absent.
Página 130 - It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance and superiority in the scale of being ; but he knows that, how high soever the station is of which he stands possessed at present, the inferior nature will at length mount up to it, and shine forth in the same degree of glory.
Página 110 - Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and, upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr.
Página 132 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them.