The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Pindar and Ho- race ? and shall we think it blemished by a passage from the sacred Psalms aptly interwoven ? Do we despise the books which were dictated by the spirit of God , in compa- rison of Homer , Euripides , and Ennis ? SIR , TO ...
... Pindar and Ho- race ? and shall we think it blemished by a passage from the sacred Psalms aptly interwoven ? Do we despise the books which were dictated by the spirit of God , in compa- rison of Homer , Euripides , and Ennis ? SIR , TO ...
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... Pindar was better rewarded for many of his odes than any other bard ancient or modern , except perhaps 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 ...
... Pindar was better rewarded for many of his odes than any other bard ancient or modern , except perhaps 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 ...
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... Pindaric writers in the time of Charles the Second : When on my sick bed I languish , Full of sorrow , full of anguish , Fainting , gasping , trembling , crying , Panting , groaning , speechless dying ! Methinks I hear some gentle ...
... Pindaric writers in the time of Charles the Second : When on my sick bed I languish , Full of sorrow , full of anguish , Fainting , gasping , trembling , crying , Panting , groaning , speechless dying ! Methinks I hear some gentle ...
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... or trifling . Colonel Caper's Pindaric Ode on the E O Table must absolutely be inserted in your very next paper , or else never expect to hear again from " LETITIA . " " SIR , 66 TO THE ADVENTURER . " I 146 71 . ADVENTURER .
... or trifling . Colonel Caper's Pindaric Ode on the E O Table must absolutely be inserted in your very next paper , or else never expect to hear again from " LETITIA . " " SIR , 66 TO THE ADVENTURER . " I 146 71 . ADVENTURER .
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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
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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,...