The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Band 15 |
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... fancy him a giant when you looked upon him , and a tom - tit when you shut your eyes . I must not omit acquainting my reader , that this accom- plished person was formerly the master of a toy- shop near Temple - bar ; and that the ...
... fancy him a giant when you looked upon him , and a tom - tit when you shut your eyes . I must not omit acquainting my reader , that this accom- plished person was formerly the master of a toy- shop near Temple - bar ; and that the ...
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... fancy : if he kissed my chamber - maid before my face , I was supposed so ignorant , how could I think there was any hurt in it ? When he came home roaring drunk at five in the morning , it was the custom of all men that live in the ...
... fancy : if he kissed my chamber - maid before my face , I was supposed so ignorant , how could I think there was any hurt in it ? When he came home roaring drunk at five in the morning , it was the custom of all men that live in the ...
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... fancy that troubled him ; in hot weather he lived upon juleps , and let blood to prevent fevers ; when it grew cloudy he generally apprehended a consumption : to shorten the history of this wretched part of my life , he ruined a good ...
... fancy that troubled him ; in hot weather he lived upon juleps , and let blood to prevent fevers ; when it grew cloudy he generally apprehended a consumption : to shorten the history of this wretched part of my life , he ruined a good ...
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... fancy must be of considera- ble advantage ; for this reason , because the cir- cumstances which a man imagines himself in du- ring sleep are generally such as entirely favour his inclinations , good or bad , and give him imaginary ...
... fancy must be of considera- ble advantage ; for this reason , because the cir- cumstances which a man imagines himself in du- ring sleep are generally such as entirely favour his inclinations , good or bad , and give him imaginary ...
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... fancy in sleep are no in- considerable instances ; so that not only the advan- tage a man has of making discoveries of himself , but a regard to his own ease or disquiet , may in- duce him to accept of my advice . Such as are will- ing ...
... fancy in sleep are no in- considerable instances ; so that not only the advan- tage a man has of making discoveries of himself , but a regard to his own ease or disquiet , may in- duce him to accept of my advice . Such as are will- ing ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted Aglaüs agreeable alderman appear bacon bailiff battle of Blenheim beauty body casuist consider creature dear delight desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain eternity eyes faculties fair ladies fancy favours flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination inclinations kind king lady Lancelot Addison Lesbia letter light lived look lord of Whichenovre lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours never night observed occasion OCTOBER 15 OVID pain paper passion persons Phoebe pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Richard Cumberland secret Shalum sight soul SPECTATOR stancy sure taborets tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY whole widow wife words write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 104 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Seite 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Seite 36 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Seite 113 - Our inimitable Shakespear is a stumbling-block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics. Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Seite 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 18 - God is present with us, by the effects which he produceth in us. Our outward senses are too gross to apprehend him; we may, however, taste and see how gracious he is, by his influence upon our minds, by those virtuous thoughts which he awakens in us, by those secret comforts and refreshments which he...
Seite 209 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Seite 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 35 - Hammond, written by Bishop FelL As this good man was troubled with a complication of distempers, when he had the gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the stone ; and when he had the stone, that he had not both these distempers on him at the same time.