The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Հատոր 21810 |
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... understanding , she was soon intoxicated by the flatteries of her maid , who informed her that ladies , such as she , had no- thing to do but take pleasure their own way ; that she wanted nothing from others , and had therefore no ...
... understanding , she was soon intoxicated by the flatteries of her maid , who informed her that ladies , such as she , had no- thing to do but take pleasure their own way ; that she wanted nothing from others , and had therefore no ...
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... understanding , unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence ; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base extraction , " the child of vanity , and ...
... understanding , unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence ; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base extraction , " the child of vanity , and ...
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... understanding , or less attention . When their hearts are burthened with the consciousness of a crime , instead of seeking for some remedy with- in themselves , they look round upon the rest of mankind , to find others tainted with the ...
... understanding , or less attention . When their hearts are burthened with the consciousness of a crime , instead of seeking for some remedy with- in themselves , they look round upon the rest of mankind , to find others tainted with the ...
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... understandings , by . turning the attention wholly from himself , and keep- ing it fixed invariably on the opposite fault ; and by showing how many evils are avoided by his beha- viour , he may conceal for a time those which are in ...
... understandings , by . turning the attention wholly from himself , and keep- ing it fixed invariably on the opposite fault ; and by showing how many evils are avoided by his beha- viour , he may conceal for a time those which are in ...
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... understandings are stubborn and uncomplying , raise their passions against them , and hope to overpower their own knowledge . It is generally not so much the desire of men , sunk into depravity , to deceive the world as themselves , for ...
... understandings are stubborn and uncomplying , raise their passions against them , and hope to overpower their own knowledge . It is generally not so much the desire of men , sunk into depravity , to deceive the world as themselves , for ...
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Էջ 441 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Էջ 136 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Էջ 104 - ... harmonically conjoined, and, by consequence, the flow of the verse is longer interrupted, It is pronounced by Dryden, that a line of monosyllables is almost always harsh. This, with regard to our language, is evidently true, not because monosyllables cannot compose harmony, but because our monosyllables being of Teutonick original, or formed by contraction, commonly begin and end with consonants, as, • Every lower faculty Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste.
Էջ 443 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Էջ 435 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Էջ 148 - I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Էջ 120 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing.
Էջ 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Էջ 94 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite ; both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Էջ 105 - ... to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence...