The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Boileau introduces Damon , whose writings enter- tained and instructed the city and the court , as having passed the summer without a shirt , and the winter without a cloak ; and resolving at last to forsake Paris , - -où la vertu n'a ...
... Boileau introduces Damon , whose writings enter- tained and instructed the city and the court , as having passed the summer without a shirt , and the winter without a cloak ; and resolving at last to forsake Paris , - -où la vertu n'a ...
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... Boileau for his celebrated piece of flattery on the taking of Namur : Virgil at last possessed å fine house at Rome , and a villa at Naples : " Horace , " says Swift in one of his lectures on economy to Gay , " I am sure kept his coach ...
... Boileau for his celebrated piece of flattery on the taking of Namur : Virgil at last possessed å fine house at Rome , and a villa at Naples : " Horace , " says Swift in one of his lectures on economy to Gay , " I am sure kept his coach ...
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James Ferguson. ful husbands , and prudent economists : Boileau , by the liberalities of Lewis , was enabled to purchase a delightful privacy at Auteuil , was eminently skilled in the management of his finances , and despised that ...
James Ferguson. ful husbands , and prudent economists : Boileau , by the liberalities of Lewis , was enabled to purchase a delightful privacy at Auteuil , was eminently skilled in the management of his finances , and despised that ...
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... the Iön of Euripides . Boileau observes , that a new and extraordinary thought is by no means a thought which no person ever conceived before , or could possibly conceive ; on the contrary , it is such a thought as 100 63 . ADVENTUrer .
... the Iön of Euripides . Boileau observes , that a new and extraordinary thought is by no means a thought which no person ever conceived before , or could possibly conceive ; on the contrary , it is such a thought as 100 63 . ADVENTUrer .
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... BOILEAU . POPE . L'ignorance , et l'erreur à ses naissantes pièces , En habits de marquis , en robbes de comtesses , Venoient pour diffumer son chef - d'œuvre nouveau . BOILEAU . While I am transcribing these similarities , I feel great ...
... BOILEAU . POPE . L'ignorance , et l'erreur à ses naissantes pièces , En habits de marquis , en robbes de comtesses , Venoient pour diffumer son chef - d'œuvre nouveau . BOILEAU . While I am transcribing these similarities , I feel great ...
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absurd acquainted admiration ADVENTURER Agrestis Amana Amelia Anticlea appear Aristotle bagnio Bagshot beauty behold believe Boileau caliph captain character coach conceal conduct consider contempt countenance daugh death Demosthenes desire dignity discovered distress dreadful effect elegance equally Eugenio Euripides Eutyches excellence eyes falsehood father favour felicity folly fortune Freeman genius gratified guilt hand happiness heart Homer honour hope human husband Iliad images imagination immediately kind labour Lady Forrest learned Longinus looked mankind Mantua ment mind misery morning nature ness never Nouraddin object Odyssey opinion Osmin passion perceived perhaps person Pindar pleasure poem poet Pope present produced prosopopoeia punished Quintilian racter reason received SATURDAY says scarce sentiment servant Sir James soon Sophocles soul specta spirit stockjobber suffered tain tears tenderness Theocritus thou thought Tibullus tion truth TUESDAY ulmo Ulysses vanity Ventosus vice virtue wife wish wretched writers
Pasajes populares
Página 126 - ... with some other prey. But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every man amuses himself with projects which he knows to be improbable, and which, therefore, he resolves to pursue without daring to examine them. Whatever any man ardently desires, he very readily believes that he shall some time attain : he whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases,...