The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Bände 33-34 |
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... hope now remained for moderate measures , when the people's representa- tives should again assemble ? In this fatal moment the fuel was prepared and the match lighted , to give life to the flames of civil war ; already Scot- land had ...
... hope now remained for moderate measures , when the people's representa- tives should again assemble ? In this fatal moment the fuel was prepared and the match lighted , to give life to the flames of civil war ; already Scot- land had ...
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... hope a little plain Eng- lish without the help of Sotades , will serve to open the eyes of a plain Englishman , and prevent him from strutting about the world merely to make sport for his neighbours ; for I declare in truth , that so ...
... hope a little plain Eng- lish without the help of Sotades , will serve to open the eyes of a plain Englishman , and prevent him from strutting about the world merely to make sport for his neighbours ; for I declare in truth , that so ...
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... hope it would be sufficient , is to take down his Bible from the shelf , and look out for the parable of the Pharisee and Publican ; it is a short story , and soon read , but the moral is so much to his purpose , that he may depend upon ...
... hope it would be sufficient , is to take down his Bible from the shelf , and look out for the parable of the Pharisee and Publican ; it is a short story , and soon read , but the moral is so much to his purpose , that he may depend upon ...
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... hope administers a cordial even in our last moments , that lulls the agonies of death . But where is the need of these , had this discovery been established ? Why call in physicians , and resort to cordials , if we can hold danger at a ...
... hope administers a cordial even in our last moments , that lulls the agonies of death . But where is the need of these , had this discovery been established ? Why call in physicians , and resort to cordials , if we can hold danger at a ...
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... hope of evading death , or there is something in a life of dissipation not worth preserving . I am astonished at the stupidity of any man , who can deny himself the gratification of conscious integrity . The proud man must be a ...
... hope of evading death , or there is something in a life of dissipation not worth preserving . I am astonished at the stupidity of any man , who can deny himself the gratification of conscious integrity . The proud man must be a ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æneid Æschylus Altamont amongst Aristophanes Athenian Athens Attalus Banquo Beaumelle Ben Jonson better Calista called captain Cecrops character Charalois charms Christ comedy confess contempt cried Cynthia death Don Manuel drama Erichthonius Euripides eyes fable Fair Penitent Falstaff Fatal Dowry father favour fortune genius gentleman give Greek hand happy hath heart honour hope Horatio human humour incident inquisidor Lady Touchwood living Lord Touchwood Lothario Macbeth manner Maskwell Mellafont ment merit mind miracle moral Musidorus nature never Nicolas Novall NUMBER observe passed passion Pedrosa person Pisistratus pity play plot poet present racter reader reason replied Romont Saint Mark Sappho scene seems Shakspeare Sir Paul Socrates soul spirit stage striking style taste tell thee thing thou thought tion took tragedy truth turn Volpone whilst wife words write XXXIII young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Seite 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...
Seite 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Seite 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Seite 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Seite 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Seite 94 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Seite 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Seite 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Seite 123 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...