The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... pleasure so re- motely consequential that her practices raise no alarm , and her stratagems are not easily discovered . Vanity is , indeed , often suffered to pass unpur- sued by suspicion : because he that would watch her motions can ...
... pleasure so re- motely consequential that her practices raise no alarm , and her stratagems are not easily discovered . Vanity is , indeed , often suffered to pass unpur- sued by suspicion : because he that would watch her motions can ...
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... pleasure of seeing themselves superior to those that surround them , and receiving the homage of silent attention and envious admiration . But vanity is sometimes excited to fiction by less visible gratifications : the present age ...
... pleasure of seeing themselves superior to those that surround them , and receiving the homage of silent attention and envious admiration . But vanity is sometimes excited to fiction by less visible gratifications : the present age ...
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... pleasure of hearing me read my play . " The delight that I received from the contem- plation of my performance , the encomium of my friends , and especially this message , was in my opi- nion an experimental proof of my principles , and ...
... pleasure of hearing me read my play . " The delight that I received from the contem- plation of my performance , the encomium of my friends , and especially this message , was in my opi- nion an experimental proof of my principles , and ...
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... pleasure which she had impatiently expected , and read my play . 66 My play , therefore , I was obliged to produce , and having found an opportunity hastily to button up the corner of the napkin while the manuscript lay open in my lap ...
... pleasure which she had impatiently expected , and read my play . 66 My play , therefore , I was obliged to produce , and having found an opportunity hastily to button up the corner of the napkin while the manuscript lay open in my lap ...
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... 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 not hoped to have been reminded of my promise ...
... 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 not hoped to have been reminded of my promise ...
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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,...