Noctes Atticæ, or Reveries in a garret; containing observations on men and books |
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... question , " whether a person is less able to read or write with or without effect , as the sun or the clouds have the ascendancy o'er this nether world ? " Most men have felt the skyey influences , unless they possessed very strong ...
... question , " whether a person is less able to read or write with or without effect , as the sun or the clouds have the ascendancy o'er this nether world ? " Most men have felt the skyey influences , unless they possessed very strong ...
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... question may seem to hold out , but by a doubt founded on some facts , viz . whether either side is in earnest . An Aristocrat , and even a Lord Lieutenant of the county , shall buy a borough ; yet he 19 Pagan Deities and their Jesters ...
... question may seem to hold out , but by a doubt founded on some facts , viz . whether either side is in earnest . An Aristocrat , and even a Lord Lieutenant of the county , shall buy a borough ; yet he 19 Pagan Deities and their Jesters ...
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... question in grammar against the beard of a Greek philosopher , named Timotheus . Having won , no solicitation could prevail on him to remit the fine , and he most unmercifully shaved his antagonist , in spite of very ample offers to ...
... question in grammar against the beard of a Greek philosopher , named Timotheus . Having won , no solicitation could prevail on him to remit the fine , and he most unmercifully shaved his antagonist , in spite of very ample offers to ...
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... questions and ridiculous answers I need not be obliged to any of my neighbours . " Sancho , ' quoth Don Quixote , you have said more than you are aware of ; for some there are who tire themselves with examining into and explaining 6 ...
... questions and ridiculous answers I need not be obliged to any of my neighbours . " Sancho , ' quoth Don Quixote , you have said more than you are aware of ; for some there are who tire themselves with examining into and explaining 6 ...
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... question of what woman shall be called beautiful , explains , at least , the difficulty of it : the " Je ne sçais quoi , " and the Cælia altogether of the English poet , must content us , unless we join the sentimentalist , and ...
... question of what woman shall be called beautiful , explains , at least , the difficulty of it : the " Je ne sçais quoi , " and the Cælia altogether of the English poet , must content us , unless we join the sentimentalist , and ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admire Æsop amusing ancient anecdote Aristotle bard beauty Cæsar called censure character Cicero common composition critic David Hume described disputes Don Quixote dull elegant eminent endeavoured English Essay Euripides excellent fancy favourite fool French genius Gothic Architecture Greek Greek language happiness hero historian honour Hudibras humour idle IMITATED ingenious intellect John Locke Johnson Julius Cæsar ladies language learned letters lines lively Lord Lord Monboddo lover matter Milton mind mode modern moral nature never observed opinion orator passage passion perhaps persons philosopher Plato Platonic Love pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry Pope powers praise pride prose Quintilian racter reader reason rhyme ridicule Roman satire says scene scholar seems sense sentiments Shakespeare shew singular speak style Tacitus talents taste Theocritus things thought truth virtue Voltaire whilst wise wish words writer young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 96 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Seite 153 - FRIENDS. Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care. Tis thus in friendships; who depend On many, rarely find a friend. A hare, who in a civil way, Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bestial train Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain.
Seite 21 - Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home; Fear, pity, justice, indignation start, Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart ; Till half a patriot, half a coward grown, I fly from petty tyrants to the throne.
Seite 28 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Seite 45 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Seite 129 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Seite 153 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Seite 5 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Seite 68 - In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due! yet all his good...
Seite 38 - Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to show with how small pain The sores of faith are cured again; Although by woeful proof we find They always leave a scar behind.