The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes21-22 |
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... received , and an air of forced jocularity in the stranger , gave Ned some offence ; but the next moment he catched him in his arms in a transport of joy , upon receiving his congratulation as proprietor of the fortunate ticket , which ...
... received , and an air of forced jocularity in the stranger , gave Ned some offence ; but the next moment he catched him in his arms in a transport of joy , upon receiving his congratulation as proprietor of the fortunate ticket , which ...
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... received the bounty of his patron without much emotion ; he regarded his success as an event produced , like rain and sun - shine , by the common and regular operation of natural causes ; and took possession of his rectory with the same ...
... received the bounty of his patron without much emotion ; he regarded his success as an event produced , like rain and sun - shine , by the common and regular operation of natural causes ; and took possession of his rectory with the same ...
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... received all the pleasure which they could give me . I am not able to excite in myself any curiosity after events which have been long passed , and in which I can , therefore , have no interest : I am utterly unconcerned to know whether ...
... received all the pleasure which they could give me . I am not able to excite in myself any curiosity after events which have been long passed , and in which I can , therefore , have no interest : I am utterly unconcerned to know whether ...
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... received good and evil , which succeeding generations could expect only from natural causes , Soliman , a mighty prince , reigned over a thousand provinces in the distant regions of the East . It is recorded of Soliman , that he had no ...
... received good and evil , which succeeding generations could expect only from natural causes , Soliman , a mighty prince , reigned over a thousand provinces in the distant regions of the East . It is recorded of Soliman , that he had no ...
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... received was poison , which would relieve her from languor and melancholy by removing the cause , if it could be given to the king before her marriage was completed . After Nourassin was gone , she sat ruminating on the infelicity of ...
... received was poison , which would relieve her from languor and melancholy by removing the cause , if it could be given to the king before her marriage was completed . After Nourassin was gone , she sat ruminating on the infelicity of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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?