The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Հատոր 7 |
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Արդյունքներ 61–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... appear at first sight from the foregoing description ) which upon examination will be found to agree with it . As true wit generally consists in this resemblance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly consists in the resemblance and ...
... appear at first sight from the foregoing description ) which upon examination will be found to agree with it . As true wit generally consists in this resemblance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly consists in the resemblance and ...
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... appearing greater than they are , makes the whole world run into the habit of the court . You see the lady , who the day before was as various as a rainbow , upon the time appointed for beginning to mourn , as dark as a cloud . This ...
... appearing greater than they are , makes the whole world run into the habit of the court . You see the lady , who the day before was as various as a rainbow , upon the time appointed for beginning to mourn , as dark as a cloud . This ...
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... appears very well drawn in this piece . But it is denied , that it is necessary to the character of a fine gentleman , that he should in that manner trample upon all order and decency . As for the character of Dorimant , it is more of a ...
... appears very well drawn in this piece . But it is denied , that it is necessary to the character of a fine gentleman , that he should in that manner trample upon all order and decency . As for the character of Dorimant , it is more of a ...
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... appears still more in his own description of his way of living with his lady . There is , ' says he , never a man in town lives more like a gentleman with his wife than I do ; I never mind her motions ; she never inquires into mine . We ...
... appears still more in his own description of his way of living with his lady . There is , ' says he , never a man in town lives more like a gentleman with his wife than I do ; I never mind her motions ; she never inquires into mine . We ...
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... appear at my auction on Friday next . A sight is , I suppose , as grateful to a Spectator , as a treat to another person , and therefore I hope you will pardon this invitation from , SIR , Your most obedient humble servant , X. J. ...
... appear at my auction on Friday next . A sight is , I suppose , as grateful to a Spectator , as a treat to another person , and therefore I hope you will pardon this invitation from , SIR , Your most obedient humble servant , X. J. ...
Common terms and phrases
admire agreeable animals appear beautiful behaviour body burning-glasses character club conversation court creatures daugh delight discourse Dorimant dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour Epidaurus Epig epigram Eucrate Eudoxus eyes face fair sex favour Flavia forbear fortune friend Sir Roger gentleman give Glaphyra good-breeding greatest hand head hear heard heart honest honour humour husband idol imagination kind knight labour lady Laertes letter live look lover mankind manner master mind nature neral never observe occasion ordinary OVID particular pass passion person Phara Pharamond physiognomist Platonic love pleased pleasure poet present prince proper reader reason seems sense servants shew soul speak spect SPECTATOR Steenkirk tell temper thing thou thought tion Tmolus told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue walking whig whole woman women words writing young
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Էջ 136 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Էջ 235 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Էջ 225 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Էջ 232 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Էջ 216 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.
Էջ 280 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Էջ 232 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
Էջ 211 - ... approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Էջ 210 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
Էջ 218 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.