The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... , or entered into the spirit and scope of one of them . But Eutyches has diligently digested the dissertations of Rapin , Bouhours , Felton , Black- VOL . II . C 14 wall , and consolation who can knowledge great hero 48 . 13 ADVENTURER .
... , or entered into the spirit and scope of one of them . But Eutyches has diligently digested the dissertations of Rapin , Bouhours , Felton , Black- VOL . II . C 14 wall , and consolation who can knowledge great hero 48 . 13 ADVENTURER .
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... spirit and propriety , without a total departure spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn from mature and resemblance , as sometimes is the in pretended pictures of life . In a few in- stavices only he has failed , by ...
... spirit and propriety , without a total departure spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn from mature and resemblance , as sometimes is the in pretended pictures of life . In a few in- stavices only he has failed , by ...
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... spirit and propriety , without a total departure from nature and resemblance , as sometimes is the case in pretended pictures of life . In a few in- stances only he has failed , by overcharging his traits with many ridiculous features ...
... spirit and propriety , without a total departure from nature and resemblance , as sometimes is the case in pretended pictures of life . In a few in- stances only he has failed , by overcharging his traits with many ridiculous features ...
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... spirit of God , in compa- rison of Homer , Euripides , and Ennis ? SIR , TO THE ADVENTURER . IN the library of the Benedictine monks at Lyons , has lately been discovered a most curious manu- script of the celebrated Longinus . As I ...
... spirit of God , in compa- rison of Homer , Euripides , and Ennis ? SIR , TO THE ADVENTURER . IN the library of the Benedictine monks at Lyons , has lately been discovered a most curious manu- script of the celebrated Longinus . As I ...
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... spirits were quite exhausted by the violent agitation of my mind ; and I was intimidated by the presence of two persons who appeared to consider me and my performances as objects only of merriment and sport . I would gladly have re ...
... spirits were quite exhausted by the violent agitation of my mind ; and I was intimidated by the presence of two persons who appeared to consider me and my performances as objects only of merriment and sport . I would gladly have re ...
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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,...