The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes21-22 |
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... manner in which he was driven from his duke- dom of Milan , and landed afterwards on this solitary island , accompanied only by his daughter , is imme- diately introduced in a short and natural narration . The offices of his attendant ...
... manner in which he was driven from his duke- dom of Milan , and landed afterwards on this solitary island , accompanied only by his daughter , is imme- diately introduced in a short and natural narration . The offices of his attendant ...
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... manner of the ancients , or subtilize it into a series of syllogistic arguments ; he may en- force his doctrine by seriousness and solemnity , or enliven it by sprightliness and gaiety ; he may de- liver his sentiments in naked precepts ...
... manner of the ancients , or subtilize it into a series of syllogistic arguments ; he may en- force his doctrine by seriousness and solemnity , or enliven it by sprightliness and gaiety ; he may de- liver his sentiments in naked precepts ...
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... manner , the pas- sions of the mind , which put the world in motion , and produce all the bustle and eagerness of the busy crowds that swarm upon the earth ; the passions , from whence arise all the pleasures and pains that we see and ...
... manner , the pas- sions of the mind , which put the world in motion , and produce all the bustle and eagerness of the busy crowds that swarm upon the earth ; the passions , from whence arise all the pleasures and pains that we see and ...
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... manner , but terminated by dif- ferent success , produce different judgements : they who attain their wishes never want celebrators of their wisdom and their virtue ; and they that mis- carry are quickly discovered to have been ...
... manner , but terminated by dif- ferent success , produce different judgements : they who attain their wishes never want celebrators of their wisdom and their virtue ; and they that mis- carry are quickly discovered to have been ...
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... manner , and a reverence of religion and virtue in my conversa- tion . The novelty of the scene that was now placed ... manners and appearance of those , who in the same station were better treated . I had already improved greatly in my ...
... manner , and a reverence of religion and virtue in my conversa- tion . The novelty of the scene that was now placed ... manners and appearance of those , who in the same station were better treated . I had already improved greatly in my ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Adventurer amusement appearance bagnio beauty Caliban character Clodio considered Corsica danger daughter disappointed discovered distress dreadful elegance endeavoured entertainment equal Euripides evil excellence eyes fashion father favour fear felicity FITZ-ADAM Flavilla folly fortune Fretters gentleman give Goneril happiness heart Hilario honour hope horses humble servant imagination kind knew labour lady learned lence less letter lived look Lord Lord Chesterfield mankind manner marriage Menander ment Mercator mind moral nature neral ness never night obliged observed OVID paper passion perhaps person pity pleasure poet Posidippus pounds present produced Prospero Quintilian racter readers reason Richard Owen Cambridge ridicule ROBERT DODSLEY scarce sentiments Shelimah sometimes soon suffer taste thee Theocritus thing thou thought tion told truth VIRG virtue Westminster school wife wish wretch writer
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - 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 7 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Página 129 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Página 26 - 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 168 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Página 115 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall...
Página 127 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to 't?
Página 167 - Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
Página 52 - 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 month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Página 7 - em That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. Prospero. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ariel. Mine would, sir, were I human. Prospero. And mine shall. 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 moved than thou art?