The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... tears would not have suffered me to behold : let it suffice that such was its effect upon those who were present , that the murderer was not , without diffi- culty , conducted alive to the prison ; and , I am confident , that few who ...
... tears would not have suffered me to behold : let it suffice that such was its effect upon those who were present , that the murderer was not , without diffi- culty , conducted alive to the prison ; and , I am confident , that few who ...
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... tears in the parting embrace , and who longed with fond solicitude for his return ; or , perhaps , some infant whom his labour was to feed , and his vigilance protect ; will see that Alexander was more the pest of society than Bagshot ...
... tears in the parting embrace , and who longed with fond solicitude for his return ; or , perhaps , some infant whom his labour was to feed , and his vigilance protect ; will see that Alexander was more the pest of society than Bagshot ...
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... tears ; and whoever goes about to gratify intemperate wishes will labour to as little purpose as he who should attempt to fill a sieve with water . I was accidentally led to pursue my subject in this train by the sight of an historical ...
... tears ; and whoever goes about to gratify intemperate wishes will labour to as little purpose as he who should attempt to fill a sieve with water . I was accidentally led to pursue my subject in this train by the sight of an historical ...
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... tears ; as having been driven from the path of duty , only by the violence of passions which none have always resisted , and which many have indulged with much greater turpitude ; the same object that before ex- cited indignation and ...
... tears ; as having been driven from the path of duty , only by the violence of passions which none have always resisted , and which many have indulged with much greater turpitude ; the same object that before ex- cited indignation and ...
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... tears ; and which I am almost confident Aristotle would have preferred to the story of his admired Edipus , for the artificial manner in which the recognition , avayyopiois , is effected , emerging gradually from the incidents and ...
... tears ; and which I am almost confident Aristotle would have preferred to the story of his admired Edipus , for the artificial manner in which the recognition , avayyopiois , is effected , emerging gradually from the incidents and ...
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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,...