The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... hand knowledge , as they give concise accounts of all the great heroes of ancient literature , and enable them to speak of their several characters , without the tedious drudgery of perusing the originals . But the characters of writers ...
... hand knowledge , as they give concise accounts of all the great heroes of ancient literature , and enable them to speak of their several characters , without the tedious drudgery of perusing the originals . But the characters of writers ...
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... hand shall hold me . ' With what majesty and magnificence is the Creator of the world , before whom the whole universe is repre- sented as nothing , nay , less than nothing , and va- nity , introduced making the following sublime in ...
... hand shall hold me . ' With what majesty and magnificence is the Creator of the world , before whom the whole universe is repre- sented as nothing , nay , less than nothing , and va- nity , introduced making the following sublime in ...
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... hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children . ' Which tender and affecting stroke reminds me of the picture of a sacked city by Aristides the Theban , on which we have so often gazed with inexpressi- ble delight ; that ...
... hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children . ' Which tender and affecting stroke reminds me of the picture of a sacked city by Aristides the Theban , on which we have so often gazed with inexpressi- ble delight ; that ...
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... hands , declared that I did not do my play justice , and that he would finish it himself . He then began to read ; but the affected gravity of his countenance , the unnatural tone of his voice , and the remembrance of his late anecdote ...
... hands , declared that I did not do my play justice , and that he would finish it himself . He then began to read ; but the affected gravity of his countenance , the unnatural tone of his voice , and the remembrance of his late anecdote ...
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... hands : Bob's business was to follow the workmen with a microscope , and call them to retouch their perform- ances , and heighten excellence to perfection . The reputation of his house now brings round him a daily confluence of ...
... hands : Bob's business was to follow the workmen with a microscope , and call them to retouch their perform- ances , and heighten excellence to perfection . The reputation of his house now brings round him a daily confluence of ...
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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,...