Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryC. Dilly, 1790 - 1019 Seiten |
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... Thought 334 3 Style must be adapted to the Subject 303 92 On Embellishments of Style 334 38 Attention to Style must not detract 93 Mastery of Language 335 fom Attention to Thought - 303 94 the Purity and Idiom of Language 335 39 Of the ...
... Thought 334 3 Style must be adapted to the Subject 303 92 On Embellishments of Style 334 38 Attention to Style must not detract 93 Mastery of Language 335 fom Attention to Thought - 303 94 the Purity and Idiom of Language 335 39 Of the ...
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... thought . When there is such a parity between two perfons associated for life , the dejec- tion which the husband , if he be not com- pletely ftupid , must always fuffer for want of fuperiority , finks him to submissiveness . My mamma ...
... thought . When there is such a parity between two perfons associated for life , the dejec- tion which the husband , if he be not com- pletely ftupid , must always fuffer for want of fuperiority , finks him to submissiveness . My mamma ...
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... thought it necessary to justify their understandings , by treating me with contempt . One of these witlings elevated his crest , by asking me in a full coffeehouse the price of patches ; and ano- ther whispered , that he wondered Miss ...
... thought it necessary to justify their understandings , by treating me with contempt . One of these witlings elevated his crest , by asking me in a full coffeehouse the price of patches ; and ano- ther whispered , that he wondered Miss ...
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... thought , I could not but reffect on that little infignificant figure which I mylef bore amidit the immensity of God's Works . Were the fun , which enlightens this part of the creation , with all the host of planetary worlds that move ...
... thought , I could not but reffect on that little infignificant figure which I mylef bore amidit the immensity of God's Works . Were the fun , which enlightens this part of the creation , with all the host of planetary worlds that move ...
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... thought that is stirring in the intellectual world , to every part of which he is thus intimately united . Several moralists have confidered the crea- tion as the temple of God , which he has built with his own hands , and which is ...
... thought that is stirring in the intellectual world , to every part of which he is thus intimately united . Several moralists have confidered the crea- tion as the temple of God , which he has built with his own hands , and which is ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æneid almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt bleſſed buſineſs cauſe chriftian Chriſt Cicero compofition confider confideration converſation courſe defire deſign eaſe eaſy endeavour expreſſed faid fame feem firſt fome foon foul fuch fuffer fuperior fure genius give grace happy hath heart holy honour human inſtance inſtruction intereſt itſelf Jeſus juſt laſt leſs Lord manner maſter ment mind moſt muſt nature neceſſary neſs never obſerve occafion ourſelves paffions paſs paſſed paſſions pauſe perſons pleaſing pleaſure poetry poets praiſe preſent preſerve purpoſe racter raiſe reaſon religion reſpect reſt Roman ſame ſay ſcarce ſcenes ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſenſible ſentence ſentiments ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpecies ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtrength ſtudy ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe taſte thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought tion truth univerſal unto uſe verſe Virgil virtue whoſe words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 279 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Seite 251 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Seite 266 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Seite 282 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 437 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Seite 434 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the world open before him. The rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the public judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor critics of such authority as might restrain his extravagance.
Seite 282 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort ; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Seite 1 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and...
Seite 285 - GRANT, O merciful God, that as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him ; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 266 - Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day ; defend us in the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger ; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord.