The Adventurer, Volumen3S. Doig, 1793 |
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Página 98
... observed , I think , by Sir William Tem- ple , and after him by almost every other writer , that Eng . Jand affords a greater variety of characters than the rest of of the world . This is afcribed to the liberty 98 No. LXXXIII . THE ...
... observed , I think , by Sir William Tem- ple , and after him by almost every other writer , that Eng . Jand affords a greater variety of characters than the rest of of the world . This is afcribed to the liberty 98 No. LXXXIII . THE ...
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... observed , that knowledge is no- thing to him who is not known by others to poffess it : to the scholar himfelf it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage , for the world cannot reward E 6 thofe thofe qualities which are ...
... observed , that knowledge is no- thing to him who is not known by others to poffess it : to the scholar himfelf it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage , for the world cannot reward E 6 thofe thofe qualities which are ...
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... observed , that these two poems were pro- duced by events that really happened ; and may , there- fore , be of use to prove , that we can always feel more than we can imagine , and that the most artful fiction must give way to truth . T ...
... observed , that these two poems were pro- duced by events that really happened ; and may , there- fore , be of use to prove , that we can always feel more than we can imagine , and that the most artful fiction must give way to truth . T ...
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... observed by a genius of the loweft order ; but to portray characters naturally , and to preferve them uniformly , requires fuch an intimate knowledge of the heart of man , and is fo rare a portion of felici- ty , as to have been enjoyed ...
... observed by a genius of the loweft order ; but to portray characters naturally , and to preferve them uniformly , requires fuch an intimate knowledge of the heart of man , and is fo rare a portion of felici- ty , as to have been enjoyed ...
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... observed to be fuperior in power , whe- ther because it is the nature of vice to defeat its own purpose , or whether the calm and equal tenor of a vir- tuous mind prevents those mistakes , which are committed in the tumult and ...
... observed to be fuperior in power , whe- ther because it is the nature of vice to defeat its own purpose , or whether the calm and equal tenor of a vir- tuous mind prevents those mistakes , which are committed in the tumult and ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 156 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 129 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Página 154 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 17 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Página 134 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...
Página 185 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every mouth : and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Página 130 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 127 - To know the poet from the man of rhymes: Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose...
Página 65 - Paris in his twenty-first year, and affixed on the gate of the college of Navarre a kind of challenge to the learned of that...
Página 92 - ... as are not in themselves strictly defensible: a man heated in talk, and eager of victory, takes advantage of the mistakes or ignorance of his adversary, lays hold of concessions to which he knows he has no right, and urges proofs likely to prevail on his opponent, though he knows himself that they have no force...