The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Band 15 |
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... possession of my own land , and a large jointure . My youth and money brought me many lovers , and several endeavoured to estab- lish an interest in my heart while my husband was in his last sickness ; the honourable Edward Wait- fort ...
... possession of my own land , and a large jointure . My youth and money brought me many lovers , and several endeavoured to estab- lish an interest in my heart while my husband was in his last sickness ; the honourable Edward Wait- fort ...
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... possession of his new - acquired kingdom , was to issue out a proclamation , ordering his subjects to destroy all the deer in the realm . The king had perished among the rest had he not avoided his pursuers by reanimating the body of a ...
... possession of his new - acquired kingdom , was to issue out a proclamation , ordering his subjects to destroy all the deer in the realm . The king had perished among the rest had he not avoided his pursuers by reanimating the body of a ...
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... possessed of this spurious edition of the bible , and observe the com- mandment according to that faulty reading . Adulterers in the first ages of the church were excommunicated for ever , and unqualified all their lives for bearing a ...
... possessed of this spurious edition of the bible , and observe the com- mandment according to that faulty reading . Adulterers in the first ages of the church were excommunicated for ever , and unqualified all their lives for bearing a ...
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... possessed all the neighbouring hills , and that great range of mountains which goes under the name of Tirzah . Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit ; Shalum was of a gentle disposition , beloved both by God and man . It is said ...
... possessed all the neighbouring hills , and that great range of mountains which goes under the name of Tirzah . Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit ; Shalum was of a gentle disposition , beloved both by God and man . It is said ...
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... possessions which are fallen to my lot . Win me not by thy enticing words . May thy trees increase and multiply ; mayest thou add wood to wood , and shade to shade ; but tempt not Hilpa to destroy thy soli- tude , and make thy ...
... possessions which are fallen to my lot . Win me not by thy enticing words . May thy trees increase and multiply ; mayest thou add wood to wood , and shade to shade ; but tempt not Hilpa to destroy thy soli- tude , and make thy ...
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.