The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... admirable Crichton . Johnson . 82. Personal Beauty produced by moral Sentiment . Hawkesworth . Warton . 83. Observations on the Odyssey concluded . 84. Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85 ...
... admirable Crichton . Johnson . 82. Personal Beauty produced by moral Sentiment . Hawkesworth . Warton . 83. Observations on the Odyssey concluded . 84. Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85 ...
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... admired writer , which evidently show that he had not digested his thoughts with philosophical exact- ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be with spirit and propriety , without a total departure spoken of in ...
... admired writer , which evidently show that he had not digested his thoughts with philosophical exact- ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be with spirit and propriety , without a total departure spoken of in ...
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... admiration . A different age and diffe- rent nation render us incapable of relishing several beauties in the Alchymist of Jonson , and in the Don Quixote of Cervantes . Saint Evremond is a florid and verbose trifler , without novelty or ...
... admiration . A different age and diffe- rent nation render us incapable of relishing several beauties in the Alchymist of Jonson , and in the Don Quixote of Cervantes . Saint Evremond is a florid and verbose trifler , without novelty or ...
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... admired writer , which evidently show that he had not digested his thoughts with philosophical exact- ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn with spirit and ...
... admired writer , which evidently show that he had not digested his thoughts with philosophical exact- ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn with spirit and ...
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... admiration . A different age and diffe- rent nation render us incapable of relishing several beauties in the Alchymist of Jonson , and in the Don Quixote of Cervantes . Saint Evremond is a florid and verbose trifler , without novelty or ...
... admiration . A different age and diffe- rent nation render us incapable of relishing several beauties in the Alchymist of Jonson , and in the Don Quixote of Cervantes . Saint Evremond is a florid and verbose trifler , without novelty or ...
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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,...