Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Band 2B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 Seiten |
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... luft have not your eyes beheld ? What guilt has not ftained your hands ? What pollution has not defiled your whole body ? What youth , entangled by thee in the allurements of debauchery , haft thou not prompted by arms to deeds of ...
... luft have not your eyes beheld ? What guilt has not ftained your hands ? What pollution has not defiled your whole body ? What youth , entangled by thee in the allurements of debauchery , haft thou not prompted by arms to deeds of ...
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... luft- ful of every denomination . These flim delicate youths , practifed in all the arts of raifing and allaying the amorous fire , not only know to fing and dance , but on oc- cafion can aim the murdering dagger , and adminifter the ...
... luft- ful of every denomination . These flim delicate youths , practifed in all the arts of raifing and allaying the amorous fire , not only know to fing and dance , but on oc- cafion can aim the murdering dagger , and adminifter the ...
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... luft unlawful : the man , who fired the table of the Nymphs , in order to deftroy the public register , which contained the cen- fure of his crimes ; in a word , the man , who governed himself by no law , difre . garded all civil ...
... luft unlawful : the man , who fired the table of the Nymphs , in order to deftroy the public register , which contained the cen- fure of his crimes ; in a word , the man , who governed himself by no law , difre . garded all civil ...
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... luft f.om violating your wives and children . Do you imagine that these things are mere fictions are they not evident ? not pub- licly known ? not remembered by all ? Is it not notorious that he attempted to raise an army of flaves ...
... luft f.om violating your wives and children . Do you imagine that these things are mere fictions are they not evident ? not pub- licly known ? not remembered by all ? Is it not notorious that he attempted to raise an army of flaves ...
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... luft , and every fpecies of guilt , at laft opened your eyes to behold his deftruc- tion to you , and in your prefence , was the late , but just and deferved penalty paid . For furely it can never be alledged that in his encounter with ...
... luft , and every fpecies of guilt , at laft opened your eyes to behold his deftruc- tion to you , and in your prefence , was the late , but just and deferved penalty paid . For furely it can never be alledged that in his encounter with ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 691 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Seite 791 - When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, he was lying in his bed, with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambric handkerchief beside it.
Seite 1041 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
Seite 884 - ... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same...
Seite 698 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Seite 791 - Scripture, said my uncle Toby; and I will shew it thee to-morrow: In the mean time we may depend upon it, Trim, for our comfort, said my uncle Toby, that God Almighty is so good and just a governor of the world, that if we have but done our duties in it, — it will never be enquired into, whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one: I hope not; said the corporal But go on, Trim, said my uncle Toby, with thy story.
Seite 842 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
Seite 698 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Seite 789 - I will answer for thee, cried my uncle Toby : and thou shalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glass of sack thyself, — and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more, if they will do him good. Though I am persuaded...
Seite 1022 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.