The Warner Library, Volumen10Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer Warner Library Company, 1917 |
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... Perhaps this per- formance accounts for his being packed off to Leyden to study law . Studying law , however , was not so much to his taste as writing plays ; and his first performance was acted when he was just of age . Leyden and the ...
... Perhaps this per- formance accounts for his being packed off to Leyden to study law . Studying law , however , was not so much to his taste as writing plays ; and his first performance was acted when he was just of age . Leyden and the ...
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... ( perhaps it would have been better not to have gone to it ) to go home and pore over " abstruse authors " till far into the night . He was called to the bar in 1740 , and duly attended the quarter - sessions . Briefs , however , did not ...
... ( perhaps it would have been better not to have gone to it ) to go home and pore over " abstruse authors " till far into the night . He was called to the bar in 1740 , and duly attended the quarter - sessions . Briefs , however , did not ...
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... perhaps with more zeal than discretion , some of the strange tragedies which illus- trated the squalor and misery of the London slums . The queerest case was that of Betsy Canning , with which all Eng land rang for a year or two , and ...
... perhaps with more zeal than discretion , some of the strange tragedies which illus- trated the squalor and misery of the London slums . The queerest case was that of Betsy Canning , with which all Eng land rang for a year or two , and ...
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... perhaps it was true ; but it was certainly told by a malicious libeler , and was meant to injure him . I feel sure that not only Richardson and Johnson , who were obtrusively moralists , but such men as Addison or even the easy - going ...
... perhaps it was true ; but it was certainly told by a malicious libeler , and was meant to injure him . I feel sure that not only Richardson and Johnson , who were obtrusively moralists , but such men as Addison or even the easy - going ...
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... perhaps show too that it did n to e fo imply all that it would imply in the present day . I Nothing , indeed , is more difficult than to compare the Sal stand- ard of a distant time with that of our own . That vice was common in England ...
... perhaps show too that it did n to e fo imply all that it would imply in the present day . I Nothing , indeed , is more difficult than to compare the Sal stand- ard of a distant time with that of our own . That vice was common in England ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 5750 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 5926 - The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different...
Página 5935 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Página 5918 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Página 5934 - We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle...
Página 5936 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Página 6176 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry; but we all must die.
Página 5708 - O la ! what noise is that ? There he is again. Well, to be certain, though I know there is nothing at all in it, I am glad I am not down yonder, where those men are.
Página 5852 - ... heart grown cauld to me When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see ; My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I myself in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Página 6075 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.