The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... misery , that I wish to see it always branded with infamy : for even the successes of vice terminate in the anguish of disappointment . To Alexander the fruit of all his conquests was tears ; and whoever goes about to gratify ...
... misery , that I wish to see it always branded with infamy : for even the successes of vice terminate in the anguish of disappointment . To Alexander the fruit of all his conquests was tears ; and whoever goes about to gratify ...
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... misery and compassion expressed more forcibly and feelingly than by the behaviour of his friends , who when they first discovered him in this altered condition , destitute , afflicted , tormented , ' sat down with him upon the ground ...
... misery and compassion expressed more forcibly and feelingly than by the behaviour of his friends , who when they first discovered him in this altered condition , destitute , afflicted , tormented , ' sat down with him upon the ground ...
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... misery can be inflicted only by guilt . ' But the intellectual misery which I suffered , at the very moment when this favourite sentiment was read , produced an irresistible conviction that it was false because , except the dread of ...
... misery can be inflicted only by guilt . ' But the intellectual misery which I suffered , at the very moment when this favourite sentiment was read , produced an irresistible conviction that it was false because , except the dread of ...
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... misery . In this place , from which business and pleasure are equally excluded , and in which our only employ- ment and diversion is to hear the narratives of each other , I might much sooner have gathered materials for a letter , had I ...
... misery . In this place , from which business and pleasure are equally excluded , and in which our only employ- ment and diversion is to hear the narratives of each other , I might much sooner have gathered materials for a letter , had I ...
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... useful , and whom ruin cannot make wise : but there are among us many who raise different sensations , many that owe their present misery to the seductions of treachery , the strokes of casualty , or the tenderness 44 53 . ADVENTURER .
... useful , and whom ruin cannot make wise : but there are among us many who raise different sensations , many that owe their present misery to the seductions of treachery , the strokes of casualty , or the tenderness 44 53 . 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,...