The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... behold joy , and anguish , and revenge as- cribed to the trees of the forest , to walls , and war- like instruments ? " Before I conclude these observations , I cannot forbear taking notice of two remarkable passages in the Hebrew ...
... behold joy , and anguish , and revenge as- cribed to the trees of the forest , to walls , and war- like instruments ? " Before I conclude these observations , I cannot forbear taking notice of two remarkable passages in the Hebrew ...
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... Behold , I am vile , what shall I an- swer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth . ' 66 · I have in a former treatise observed to you , that Homer has degraded his gods into men : these writers alone have not violated the Divine ...
... Behold , I am vile , what shall I an- swer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth . ' 66 · I have in a former treatise observed to you , that Homer has degraded his gods into men : these writers alone have not violated the Divine ...
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... behold The tree that blooms with vegetable gold . PITT . The patronage of Lelius and Scipio did not enable Terence to rent a house . Tasso , in a hu- morous sonnet addressed to his favourite cat , ear- nestly entreats her to lend him ...
... behold The tree that blooms with vegetable gold . PITT . The patronage of Lelius and Scipio did not enable Terence to rent a house . Tasso , in a hu- morous sonnet addressed to his favourite cat , ear- nestly entreats her to lend him ...
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... behold . " " In that valley , " said he , " the disciples of Virtue press forward ; and the votaries of Vice wander on the plain . In the path of Vir- tue are many asperities : the foot is sometimes wounded by thorns , and sometimes ...
... behold . " " In that valley , " said he , " the disciples of Virtue press forward ; and the votaries of Vice wander on the plain . In the path of Vir- tue are many asperities : the foot is sometimes wounded by thorns , and sometimes ...
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... behold Amana without emotion : he perceived , in- deed , that she was in tears , and that his presence covered her with confusion : yet he believed that her terrors would be easily removed , that by kind- ness she might be soothed to ...
... behold Amana without emotion : he perceived , in- deed , that she was in tears , and that his presence covered her with confusion : yet he believed that her terrors would be easily removed , that by kind- ness she might be soothed to ...
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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,...