The British Essayists: AdventurerJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... common premium , when I knew , by private intelligence , that she could swim no longer than every pump was at work . ' I undertook this business with the utmost con- fidence of success . Mr. Traffic heard the account of our friend's ...
... common premium , when I knew , by private intelligence , that she could swim no longer than every pump was at work . ' I undertook this business with the utmost con- fidence of success . Mr. Traffic heard the account of our friend's ...
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... common distress ; and in the ardour of self - preservation fall unanimously upon an enemy , by whom they are all equally endangered . But if their first attack can be withstood , time will never fail to dissolve their union : success ...
... common distress ; and in the ardour of self - preservation fall unanimously upon an enemy , by whom they are all equally endangered . But if their first attack can be withstood , time will never fail to dissolve their union : success ...
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James Ferguson. this mistake is the effect of weakness or vanity , which is common to all mankind : the character of both would then assume a very different aspect , love would again be excited by the return of its object , and each ...
James Ferguson. this mistake is the effect of weakness or vanity , which is common to all mankind : the character of both would then assume a very different aspect , love would again be excited by the return of its object , and each ...
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... common rhymers and play - wrights be ; and shew them what religious , what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry , both in divine and human things . ' Z. N ° 50. SATURDAY , APRIL 28 , 1753 . Quicunque turpi fraude semel ...
... common rhymers and play - wrights be ; and shew them what religious , what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry , both in divine and human things . ' Z. N ° 50. SATURDAY , APRIL 28 , 1753 . Quicunque turpi fraude semel ...
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... common , and perhaps not least mischievous ; which , since the moralists have not given it a name , I shall distinguish as the Lie of Vanity . To vanity may justly be imputed most of the falsehoods , which every man perceives hourly ...
... common , and perhaps not least mischievous ; which , since the moralists have not given it a name , I shall distinguish as the Lie of Vanity . To vanity may justly be imputed most of the falsehoods , which every man perceives hourly ...
Termos e frases comuns
absurd acquainted ADVENTURER Æneid Agrestis Amana Amelia appear Aristotle bagnio Bagshot beauty believe Boileau Caliph Captain character coach conceal conduct consider contempt countenance daugh dear Charlotte death desire dignity disappointment discovered distress dreadful effect equally esteem Eugenio Euripides expected eyes falsehood father favour folly fortune Freeman genius gentleman gratify guilt hand happiness heart Homer honour hope human Iliad imagine immediately indignation knew labour Lady Forrest lady's secret less look mankind ment mind misery Miss Meadows morning nature ness never night Nouraddin object Odyssey opinion Osmin OVID PALINGENIUS passion perceived perhaps person Pindar pleasure poets POPE present principles produced Prosopopoeia punished purple emperor racters reason received ridiculous SATURDAY says scarce sentiments Serenus servant shew Sir James Socrates soon Sophocles suffered tain tenderness thou thought Tibullus tion told truth TUESDAY Ventosus vice VIRG virtue wife wish writers XXIV
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Página 56 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great.
Página 94 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Página 307 - I will up, saith the Lord : and will help every one from him that swelleth against him, and will set him at rest. 7 The words of the Lord are pure words : even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.
Página 46 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Página 56 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Página 93 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Página 57 - Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Página 94 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb ? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a...
Página 55 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Página 134 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!