The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumen16 |
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... Sparkler , is the very quintessence of good- nature and generosity ; she is the perfect picture of her grandfather ; and if one can imagine all good qualities which adorn human life become feminine , the seeds , nay , the blossom of ...
... Sparkler , is the very quintessence of good- nature and generosity ; she is the perfect picture of her grandfather ; and if one can imagine all good qualities which adorn human life become feminine , the seeds , nay , the blossom of ...
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... Sparkler scalded her fingers , by leaning suddenly forward to look in my face : but my business at present , was to make my court to the mother ; therefore , without regarding the re- sentment in the looks of the children , Madam ...
... Sparkler scalded her fingers , by leaning suddenly forward to look in my face : but my business at present , was to make my court to the mother ; therefore , without regarding the re- sentment in the looks of the children , Madam ...
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... Sparkler's , which is to come home next week . I design it a model for the ladies ; she and I have had three private meetings about it . As to the men , I am very glad to hear , being my- self a fellow of Lincoln - college , that there ...
... Sparkler's , which is to come home next week . I design it a model for the ladies ; she and I have had three private meetings about it . As to the men , I am very glad to hear , being my- self a fellow of Lincoln - college , that there ...
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... Sparkler bursting out into a laugh , he insulted her with several questions relating to the bigness and distance of the moon and stars ; and after every interrogation would be winking upon me , and smiling at his sister's ignorance ...
... Sparkler bursting out into a laugh , he insulted her with several questions relating to the bigness and distance of the moon and stars ; and after every interrogation would be winking upon me , and smiling at his sister's ignorance ...
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... Sparkler , with an air of inno- cence and modesty , which is peculiar to her , said that she never expected such a thing as happiness , and that she thought the most any one could do was to keep themselves from being uneasy ; for , as ...
... Sparkler , with an air of inno- cence and modesty , which is peculiar to her , said that she never expected such a thing as happiness , and that she thought the most any one could do was to keep themselves from being uneasy ; for , as ...
Términos y frases comunes
ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Aguire ancient appear APRIL Arbor Porphyriana beauty better called character Charwell conversation Corydon countenance daughter delight desire discourse divisions of low dress easy eclogues endeavour eyes fancy favour fortune free-thinker genius gentleman give greater GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humour Iago imagination innocence Ironside kind king labour lady Lizard laugh learning live look Lord lord Roscommon lover madam maid mankind manner Megaric merit mind mother nature neral never night observed occasion Othello paper passions pastoral pastoral poetry person Philips pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry reader reason satisfaction Scaron sense shepherds shew smile song soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE Syphax taste TATLER Theocritus thing thou thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous wherein WHIG whole woman words writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 252 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Página 252 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 271 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Página 252 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Página 252 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Página 150 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause...
Página 101 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Página 21 - ... part ought to have inspired with nobler and juster sentiments. This prostitution of praise is not only a deceit upon the gross of mankind, who take their notion of characters from the learned; but also the better sort must by this means lose some part at least of that desire of fame which is the incentive to generous actions, when they find it promiscuously bestowed on the meritorious and undeserving...
Página 215 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...
Página 16 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.