The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... perceived by an eye before which they are exhibited ; yet it is in our power to change the passion , and to cause either love or hatred to be excited by placing the same object in different circumstances ; as a changeable silk of blue ...
... perceived by an eye before which they are exhibited ; yet it is in our power to change the passion , and to cause either love or hatred to be excited by placing the same object in different circumstances ; as a changeable silk of blue ...
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... perceive , in what instances Corneille and Racine have falsified and modernized the cha- racters , and overloaded with unnecessary intrigues the simple plots of the ancients . Let no one , however , deceive himself in thinking , that he ...
... perceive , in what instances Corneille and Racine have falsified and modernized the cha- racters , and overloaded with unnecessary intrigues the simple plots of the ancients . Let no one , however , deceive himself in thinking , that he ...
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... perceive what despi- cable creatures our common rhymers and play- wrights be ; and show them what religious , what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry , both in divine and human things . " Z. No. 50. SATURDAY , APRIL 28 ...
... perceive what despi- cable creatures our common rhymers and play- wrights be ; and show them what religious , what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry , both in divine and human things . " Z. No. 50. SATURDAY , APRIL 28 ...
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... perceived every one labouring to stifle a laugh . I instantly suspected that I had committed some ridiculous indecorum , and I at- tempted to apologize for I knew not what offence ; but after some hesitation , my extreme sensibility ...
... perceived every one labouring to stifle a laugh . I instantly suspected that I had committed some ridiculous indecorum , and I at- tempted to apologize for I knew not what offence ; but after some hesitation , my extreme sensibility ...
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... perceive that the discourse turned wholly upon the virtues of Pom- pey , and the consequences of his hurt : it was examined with great attention and solicitude , and found to be a razure of the skin the whole length of one of his fore ...
... perceive that the discourse turned wholly upon the virtues of Pom- pey , and the consequences of his hurt : it was examined with great attention and solicitude , and found to be a razure of the skin the whole length of one of his fore ...
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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,...