The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... soon the prayer arose To him who bade us love our foes ; By faith enforced the pious call Again relumed the sightless ball . To love an enemy is the distinguishing character- istic of a religion , which is not of man but of God . It ...
... soon the prayer arose To him who bade us love our foes ; By faith enforced the pious call Again relumed the sightless ball . To love an enemy is the distinguishing character- istic of a religion , which is not of man but of God . It ...
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... soon 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 ...
... soon 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 ...
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... soon replaced , and the broken china removed ; and though the dog was the principal object of attention , yet the lady sometimes adverted to me : she politely desired that I would consider the accident as of no consequence ; the china ...
... soon replaced , and the broken china removed ; and though the dog was the principal object of attention , yet the lady sometimes adverted to me : she politely desired that I would consider the accident as of no consequence ; the china ...
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... soon discovered , though the cause was mistaken ; and the lady hoping to re- move it by giving me an opportunity to display my abilities without the restraint of ceremony , requested that I would now give her the pleasure which she had ...
... soon discovered , though the cause was mistaken ; and the lady hoping to re- move it by giving me an opportunity to display my abilities without the restraint of ceremony , requested that I would now give her the pleasure which she had ...
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... eminent members of our club is Mr. Edward Scamper , a man of whose name the Olympic heroes would not have been ashamed . Ned was born to a small estate , which he deter- mined to improve ; and therefore as soon as he 40 52 . ADVENTURER .
... eminent members of our club is Mr. Edward Scamper , a man of whose name the Olympic heroes would not have been ashamed . Ned was born to a small estate , which he deter- mined to improve ; and therefore as soon as he 40 52 . ADVENTURER .
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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,...