The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Հատոր 7 |
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... thought to resemble fire ; for which reason the words fire and flame are made use of to signify love . The witty poets therefore have taken an advantage from the double meaning of the word fire , to make an infinite number of witticisms ...
... thought to resemble fire ; for which reason the words fire and flame are made use of to signify love . The witty poets therefore have taken an advantage from the double meaning of the word fire , to make an infinite number of witticisms ...
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... thought to be beautiful which is not just , and has not its founda- tion in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable , of which good sense is not the ground - work . Boileau has ...
... thought to be beautiful which is not just , and has not its founda- tion in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable , of which good sense is not the ground - work . Boileau has ...
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... thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time , though we give them no encouragement ; as the tossings and fluctuations of the sea continue se- veral hours after the winds are laid . i It is to this that I impute my last ...
... thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time , though we give them no encouragement ; as the tossings and fluctuations of the sea continue se- veral hours after the winds are laid . i It is to this that I impute my last ...
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... thoughts , that she raises in her beholders admiration and good - will , but no loose hope or wild imagination . The true 1 Erudition seems to be used here in an uncommon sense , for cultivation or instruction . art in this case is , to ...
... thoughts , that she raises in her beholders admiration and good - will , but no loose hope or wild imagination . The true 1 Erudition seems to be used here in an uncommon sense , for cultivation or instruction . art in this case is , to ...
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... thought , and not let thought be employed upon gesture . R. No 67. THURSDAY , MAY 17 , 1711 , Saltare elegantiùs quàm necesse est probæ , SALLUST . Too fine a dancer for a virtuous woman , LUCIAN in one of his dialogues , introduces a ...
... thought , and not let thought be employed upon gesture . R. No 67. THURSDAY , MAY 17 , 1711 , Saltare elegantiùs quàm necesse est probæ , SALLUST . Too fine a dancer for a virtuous woman , LUCIAN in one of his dialogues , introduces a ...
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.