Preface on the manner of writing dialogue. Dialogue 1. On sincerity in the commerce of the world betwen Dr. More and Mr. Waller. Dialogue 2. On retirement between Mr. Cowley and Dr. Sprat. Dialogue 3. On the age of Q. Elizabeth between Mr. Digby, Dr. Arbuthnot and Mr. AddisonT. Cadell, 1771 |
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... please themselves with imagining , they had copied PLATO or CICERO . But in our language , at leaft ( and , if I extended the observation to the other modern ones of most estima- tion , I should perhaps do them no wrong ) I know of ...
... please themselves with imagining , they had copied PLATO or CICERO . But in our language , at leaft ( and , if I extended the observation to the other modern ones of most estima- tion , I should perhaps do them no wrong ) I know of ...
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... please , read you a lecture of morals : not , out of ancient books , or the visions of an unpractifed philofophy , but from the schools of business and real life . Such a view of things will difcre- dit these high notions , and may ...
... please , read you a lecture of morals : not , out of ancient books , or the visions of an unpractifed philofophy , but from the schools of business and real life . Such a view of things will difcre- dit these high notions , and may ...
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... please , that I embalmed his memory , when neither his favour nor his fmile were to be apprehended . DR . MORE . you In the short reign of his fon . - But what then ? you made amends for all , by the congratulation on the happy return ...
... please , that I embalmed his memory , when neither his favour nor his fmile were to be apprehended . DR . MORE . you In the short reign of his fon . - But what then ? you made amends for all , by the congratulation on the happy return ...
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... please , in your conclufions about the na- ture of retirement . I never meant to give up my right in the affections of those few , I call my friends . But what has this to do with the general purpose of retreating retreating from the ...
... please , in your conclufions about the na- ture of retirement . I never meant to give up my right in the affections of those few , I call my friends . But what has this to do with the general purpose of retreating retreating from the ...
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... please , fit down here . You will find it the most agreeable fpot I have to treat you with ; and the fhade we have about us will not , I fuppofe , at this hour , be unwelcome , " AND now , turning himself to me , " Let me hear from you ...
... please , fit down here . You will find it the most agreeable fpot I have to treat you with ; and the fhade we have about us will not , I fuppofe , at this hour , be unwelcome , " AND now , turning himself to me , " Let me hear from you ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
againſt amuſements antient becauſe befides beft BEN JOHNSON beſt bufinefs buſineſs cafe caft cauſe character CICERO compofition confequence confideration converfation courſe court COWLEY COWLEY'S deferve defign Dialogue difpofed eafily eſpecially expreffion exprefs faid fame fcene feem felf fenfe ferious ferve fervice fhade fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firſt fituation fociety fome fomething fpeak fpirit ftill ftrange ftudied fubject fuch fuffered fuppofe fure genius hath higheſt himſelf honour houſe humour inftance intereft itſelf juft laft leaft leaſt lefs logue Lord Lord CLARENDON manner matter ment mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf natural obferve occafion paffed paſs perfons philofophic pleaſe pleaſure poets prefent prefume purpoſe purſue racters reaſon reſpect retirement rience ſaid ſay ſcene ſchool ſhall ſpeak ſpeakers ſtill ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought truth underſtand uſe virtue WALLER whofe wiſdom wiſh writer yourſelf
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 119 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 92 - Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book...
Seite 190 - I'll have Italian masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows; And in the day when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay.
Seite 137 - Kings have long hands (they say) and though I be So distant, they may reach at length to me. However, of all Princes, thou...
Seite 194 - But we shall hardly mistake in supposing it lies somewhere between the rude essays of uncorrected fancy, on the one hand, and the refinements of reason and science, on the other. AND such appears to have been the condition of our language in the age of ELIZABETH.
Seite 134 - Leah left, thy recompence to be ! Go on: twice seven years more thy fortune try; Twice seven years more God in his bounty may Give thee, to fling away Into the court's deceitful lottery: But think how likely 'tis that thou, With the dull work of thy unwieldy plough...
Seite 135 - Ah ! wanton foe, dost thou upbraid The ills which thou thyself hast made ? When in the cradle innocent I lay, Thou, wicked spirit, stolest me away, And my abused soul didst bear Into thy new-found worlds, I know not where...
Seite 131 - And gather hulks of learning up at laft, Now the rich harveft-time of life is paft, , And winter marches on fo faft ? But, when I meant t...
Seite 130 - A wondrous hieroglyphick robe she wore, In which all colours and all figures were, That nature or that fancy can create, That art can never imitate; And with loose pride it wanton'd in the air. In such a dress, in such a well-cloth'd dream, She us'd, of old, near fair Ismenus' stream, Pindar, her Theban favourite, to meet ; A crown was on her head, and wings were on her feet.
Seite 136 - The heaven under which I live is fair, The fertile soil will a full harvest bear : Thine, thine is all the barrenness ; if thou...