The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... kind , but also that the reason and foundation of excellencies and faults be accu- rately ascertained . Bossu is usually and justly placed at the head of the commentators on Aristotle's Poetics , which cer- tainly he understood and ...
... kind , but also that the reason and foundation of excellencies and faults be accu- rately ascertained . Bossu is usually and justly placed at the head of the commentators on Aristotle's Poetics , which cer- tainly he understood and ...
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... kind , with a strong memory or brisk imagination , is often the oracle of an obscure club , and , till time discovers his impostures , dictates to his hearers with uncontroled authority : for if a public question be started , he was ...
... kind , with a strong memory or brisk imagination , is often the oracle of an obscure club , and , till time discovers his impostures , dictates to his hearers with uncontroled authority : for if a public question be started , he was ...
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... kind of falsehood is generally successful for a time , because it is practised at first with timidity and caution ; but the prosperity of the liar is of short duration ; the reception of one story is always an incitement to the forgery ...
... kind of falsehood is generally successful for a time , because it is practised at first with timidity and caution ; but the prosperity of the liar is of short duration ; the reception of one story is always an incitement to the forgery ...
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... kind of riddle propounded for an evil purpose : and as they may , therefore , be properly distinguished by the name of Sphinxes , there would not perhaps be much cause for regret , if , like the first monster of the name , they should ...
... kind of riddle propounded for an evil purpose : and as they may , therefore , be properly distinguished by the name of Sphinxes , there would not perhaps be much cause for regret , if , like the first monster of the name , they should ...
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... kind of drowsy insensibility , " I am more than half asleep already . " Lady Forrest and the captain were to go from the Haymarket to Grosvenor Square . It was about VOL . II . F half an hour after five when they got into the 54 . 49 ...
... kind of drowsy insensibility , " I am more than half asleep already . " Lady Forrest and the captain were to go from the Haymarket to Grosvenor Square . It was about VOL . II . F half an hour after five when they got into the 54 . 49 ...
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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,...