The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumen14 |
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... pass for the substantial things they are only to express , there would need no more to enslave a country but to adorn a court ; for while every man's vanity makes him believe himself capable of becoming luxury , enjoyments are a ready ...
... pass for the substantial things they are only to express , there would need no more to enslave a country but to adorn a court ; for while every man's vanity makes him believe himself capable of becoming luxury , enjoyments are a ready ...
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... pass through afflictions in common with all who are in human nature , yet their conscions integrity , shall un- dermine their affliction ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to their integrity , from a reflection of the use of ...
... pass through afflictions in common with all who are in human nature , yet their conscions integrity , shall un- dermine their affliction ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to their integrity , from a reflection of the use of ...
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... pass away the wiling moments and intervals of life ; for with them every hour is heavy that is not joyful . But there is a sort of man of wit and sense , that can reflect upon his own make , and that of his partner , with eyes of reason ...
... pass away the wiling moments and intervals of life ; for with them every hour is heavy that is not joyful . But there is a sort of man of wit and sense , that can reflect upon his own make , and that of his partner , with eyes of reason ...
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... passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen my- thology is not only excuseable , but graceful , because it is the design of such compositions to divert , by adapting the fabulous machines of the ancients to low ...
... passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen my- thology is not only excuseable , but graceful , because it is the design of such compositions to divert , by adapting the fabulous machines of the ancients to low ...
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... crimes of these offenders are placed under the observation of one of my chief officers , who is posted just at the entrance of the pass be- tween London and Westminster . As I have great confidence 54 N ° 526 . SPECTATOR .
... crimes of these offenders are placed under the observation of one of my chief officers , who is posted just at the entrance of the pass be- tween London and Westminster . As I have great confidence 54 N ° 526 . SPECTATOR .
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admirer Anacreon animals appear beautiful black tower Blank body Britomartis character Cicero cities of London city of Westminster club consider conversation creatures CREECH death desire discourse divine drachmas endeavour entertain epigram excellent eyes fancy father favour forbear fortune Freeport gentleman give hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope human humble servant humour husband infinite JUNE 23 kind lady learned letter live look manner marriage matter mean Menander mentioned mind nature never obliged observed occasion OVID paper particular passion person pleased pleasure poet poetical justice praise present Procris racters readers reason shoeing horn short sorrow soul speak species Spect SPECTATOR talk Tatler tell thing thou thought tion town VIRG virtue virtuous whole woman worthy writ writing young
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Página 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Página 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Página 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Página 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Página 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Página 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Página 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Página 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.