The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Sentiment . Hawkesworth . Warton . 83. Observations on the Odyssey concluded . 84. Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85. Study , Composition , and Converse equally necessary to intellectual ...
... Sentiment . Hawkesworth . Warton . 83. Observations on the Odyssey concluded . 84. Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85. Study , Composition , and Converse equally necessary to intellectual ...
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... sentiments they read of a youth- ful monarch who , at the head of an army in which every man became a hero by his example , passed over mountains and deserts in search of new terri- tories to invade , and new potentates to conquer ; who ...
... sentiments they read of a youth- ful monarch who , at the head of an army in which every man became a hero by his example , passed over mountains and deserts in search of new terri- tories to invade , and new potentates to conquer ; who ...
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... sentiment , and grossly contradicts himself . Happiness , " says he , “ consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The ...
... sentiment , and grossly contradicts himself . Happiness , " says he , “ consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The ...
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... sentiment that occurs to him . Yet this appears to have been the conduct of our celebrated essayist : and it has produced many awkward imitators , who , under the notion of writ- ing with the fire and freedom of this lively old 14 49 ...
... sentiment that occurs to him . Yet this appears to have been the conduct of our celebrated essayist : and it has produced many awkward imitators , who , under the notion of writ- ing with the fire and freedom of this lively old 14 49 ...
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... sentiment , and grossly contradicts himself . 66 Happiness , " says he , " consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The ...
... sentiment , and grossly contradicts himself . 66 Happiness , " says he , " consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The ...
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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,...