The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Bände 5-6T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... frequent exercises of it , contracts a certain greatness of mind , mingled with a noble simplicity that raises him above those of the same condition ; and there is an indelible mark of goodness in those who sin- cerely possess it . It ...
... frequent exercises of it , contracts a certain greatness of mind , mingled with a noble simplicity that raises him above those of the same condition ; and there is an indelible mark of goodness in those who sin- cerely possess it . It ...
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... frequently exalted by the raptures of hea- venly meditation , is to all his friends of the same use , as if an angel were to appear at the decision of their disputes . They very well understand , he is as much disinterested and ...
... frequently exalted by the raptures of hea- venly meditation , is to all his friends of the same use , as if an angel were to appear at the decision of their disputes . They very well understand , he is as much disinterested and ...
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... frequently abound . I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton , and applying it to myself , when I observed to the windward of me a black cloud falling to the earth in long trails of rain , which made me betake myself ...
... frequently abound . I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton , and applying it to myself , when I observed to the windward of me a black cloud falling to the earth in long trails of rain , which made me betake myself ...
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... frequently dwelt upon this one topic . The above maxim would make short work for us reformers ; for it is only want of making this a position that renders some characters bad , which would otherwise be good . Tom Mercet means no man ill ...
... frequently dwelt upon this one topic . The above maxim would make short work for us reformers ; for it is only want of making this a position that renders some characters bad , which would otherwise be good . Tom Mercet means no man ill ...
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... frequent the by - paths and roads near his dwelling , for no other purpose but to hand such of the fair sex as are obliged to pass through them . ' That he has been at great expense for clean gloves to offer his hand with . ' That ...
... frequent the by - paths and roads near his dwelling , for no other purpose but to hand such of the fair sex as are obliged to pass through them . ' That he has been at great expense for clean gloves to offer his hand with . ' That ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance ADDISON admiration agreeable appear Aristotle audience beauty behaviour BICKERSTAFF BUDGELL Censor character club coffee-house conversation Court of Honour discourse dress endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron Esquire eyes farther favour folly fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give hand hear heard heart hour Hudibras humble servant humour Hungary water impertinent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Italian kind King lady laugh letter likewise lion live look Lord lover mankind manner means mind morning nature never night nose obliged observed occasion offended opera ordinary OVID paper particular passion periwig person Pict pleased pleasure poet present prosecutor racter reader reason Roger de Coverley sense shew Siege of Damascus Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR STEELE talk Tatler tell thing thought tion told town tragedy VIRG virtue whole woman words writings young
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Seite 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Seite 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 31 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Seite 214 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Seite 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Seite 10 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 110 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach the organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure...
Seite 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Seite 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.