The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes7-8 |
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... sense of any being we have any account of from the highest angel to the lowest worm . How miserable is the contemplation to consider a libidinous old man , ( while all created things , besides himself and devils , are following the ...
... sense of any being we have any account of from the highest angel to the lowest worm . How miserable is the contemplation to consider a libidinous old man , ( while all created things , besides himself and devils , are following the ...
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... sense capable of discountenancing the shallow impudent rogues that shine among the wo- men . " Mr. Spectator , I don't doubt but you are a very sagacious person , but you are so great with Tully of late , that I fear you will contemn ...
... sense capable of discountenancing the shallow impudent rogues that shine among the wo- men . " Mr. Spectator , I don't doubt but you are a very sagacious person , but you are so great with Tully of late , that I fear you will contemn ...
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... sense should have this in his view in all manner of commerce with her . Were this well weighed , inconsideration , ribaldry , and nonsense , would not be more natural to entertain women with , than men ; and it would be as much ...
... sense should have this in his view in all manner of commerce with her . Were this well weighed , inconsideration , ribaldry , and nonsense , would not be more natural to entertain women with , than men ; and it would be as much ...
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... sense , or a fool ; the business is to entertain , and it is much better to have a faculty of arguing , than a capacity of judging right . But the pleasantest of all the women's equipage are your regular visitants ; these are volunteers ...
... sense , or a fool ; the business is to entertain , and it is much better to have a faculty of arguing , than a capacity of judging right . But the pleasantest of all the women's equipage are your regular visitants ; these are volunteers ...
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... sense of honour , or rather fear of shame , which he demonstrated in that action , was worth all the learning in the world without it . It is , methinks , a very melancholy consideration , that a little negligence can spoil us , but ...
... sense of honour , or rather fear of shame , which he demonstrated in that action , was worth all the learning in the world without it . It is , methinks , a very melancholy consideration , that a little negligence can spoil us , but ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance actions admired Æneid agreeable Alcibiades ambition appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART consider conversation creature DECEMBER 25 desire discourse endeavour entertainment esteem eye of Providence fame father favour gentleman give happiness head heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour husband Iliad imagination judgement kind lady leap letter live look lover Lover's Leap mankind manner marriage matter mean merit mind nature nerally never obliged observe occasion October 30 opinion ourselves OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion perfection person pleased pleasure poem poet pray present proper racters reader reason received renegado ridicule Sappho secret sense Socrates soul SPECTATOR speculation spirit tell temper Theodosius thing thought tion town turn VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous whole wife woman women word write young
Pasajes populares
Página 97 - 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. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 65 - ... seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling 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...
Página 204 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Página 65 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Página 80 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Página 148 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Página 355 - Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.
Página 317 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 319 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 66 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating : but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy...