The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Bände 33-34 |
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... humour of it with himself . It was better said by P. Syrus the actor , when he saw one Mucius , a malevolent fellow , in a very melancholy mood- ' Either some ill fortune has befallen Mucius , or some good has happened to one of his ...
... humour of it with himself . It was better said by P. Syrus the actor , when he saw one Mucius , a malevolent fellow , in a very melancholy mood- ' Either some ill fortune has befallen Mucius , or some good has happened to one of his ...
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... humour , which broke out with such violence in his face and body , it seems highly natu- ral to conjecture , that he was never in his sound mind during his secession in the Island of Capreæ . A number of circumstances might be adduced ...
... humour , which broke out with such violence in his face and body , it seems highly natu- ral to conjecture , that he was never in his sound mind during his secession in the Island of Capreæ . A number of circumstances might be adduced ...
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... humour is too violent to be en- dured ; it is very wounding to a social nature to check festivity in any degree , but there is nothing sinks the spirit so effectually as boisterous mirth , nobody so apt to overact his character as a ...
... humour is too violent to be en- dured ; it is very wounding to a social nature to check festivity in any degree , but there is nothing sinks the spirit so effectually as boisterous mirth , nobody so apt to overact his character as a ...
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... humour to be told of their faults , and these plain speaking friends sometimes perform their office so clumsily , that we are inclined to sus- pect they are more interested to bring us to present shame than future reformation . It is a ...
... humour to be told of their faults , and these plain speaking friends sometimes perform their office so clumsily , that we are inclined to sus- pect they are more interested to bring us to present shame than future reformation . It is a ...
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... humour , but he must never be made merry by theirs . In this respect he is truly to be pitied , for if once he grows sociable , he is undone . On the contrary , he must for ever remain in the very predicament of the proud man described ...
... humour , but he must never be made merry by theirs . In this respect he is truly to be pitied , for if once he grows sociable , he is undone . On the contrary , he must for ever remain in the very predicament of the proud man described ...
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...