The British Essayists: The AdventurerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... silent and sullen , and amused himself by going three or four times a day to search the register of fortune for the success of his ticket . In this disposition Ned was sitting one morning in the corner of a bench by his fire - side ...
... silent and sullen , and amused himself by going three or four times a day to search the register of fortune for the success of his ticket . In this disposition Ned was sitting one morning in the corner of a bench by his fire - side ...
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... silent when she spoke ; at the glance of her eye every cheek was covered with blushes of diffidence or desire , and at her command every foot became swift as that of the roe . But Almerine , whom ambition was thus jea- lous to obey ...
... silent when she spoke ; at the glance of her eye every cheek was covered with blushes of diffidence or desire , and at her command every foot became swift as that of the roe . But Almerine , whom ambition was thus jea- lous to obey ...
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... silent and irresistible rapidity , at length ar- rived . The curiosity of Soliman had been raised , as well by accidental encomiums , as by the artifices of Omaraddin , who now hasted to gratify it with the utmost anxiety and ...
... silent and irresistible rapidity , at length ar- rived . The curiosity of Soliman had been raised , as well by accidental encomiums , as by the artifices of Omaraddin , who now hasted to gratify it with the utmost anxiety and ...
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... silent admiration , rose up , and turning to the princes who stood round him , ' To - morrow , ' said he , ' I will grant the request which you have so often repeated , and place a beauty upon my throne , by whom I may transmit my ...
... silent admiration , rose up , and turning to the princes who stood round him , ' To - morrow , ' said he , ' I will grant the request which you have so often repeated , and place a beauty upon my throne , by whom I may transmit my ...
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... silent , indeed , as the flight time , but rapid and irresistible as the course of a That dreadful evil , which , with equal force 9 is called the Second Death , should e disregarded , merely because it has ending ; and as there is no ...
... silent , indeed , as the flight time , but rapid and irresistible as the course of a That dreadful evil , which , with equal force 9 is called the Second Death , should e disregarded , merely because it has ending ; and as there is no ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ADVENTURER Almerine ancients appear awful truth bagnio beauty Caprinus Carazan Catiline censure character Clodio common considered contempt danger daughters death disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoyment equal Euripides evil excellence fashion fear FEBRUARY 9 felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gazed genius gratify guilt happiness heart Heaven Hilario honour hope hour imagination increased innu irreversi kind knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature neglected nerally ness never night obtain panegyric passion perceived perhaps perpetually Plautus pleasure Plutarch portunity produced Projectors Prospero Quintilian reason render SATURDAY scarce servant Shakspeare Shelimah shew silent singularity Soliman solitude sometimes soon Sophocles spect studious suffered Sycorax Tartuffe Telephus terror thee Theocritus things thou hast thought tion truth TUESDAY VIRG Virgil virtue wish wretch writers Xerxes
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 18 - I'll be wise hereafter, And seek for grace : What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool ? Pro.
Seite 80 - You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stirs these daughters...
Seite 5 - Ixion fix'd, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below...
Seite 81 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think...
Seite 40 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Seite 135 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
Seite 16 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Seite 101 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! come, unbutton here.
Seite 100 - But I will punish home : No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on : I will endure : In such a night as this ! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,— O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Seite 5 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.