MirrorT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... learned in life , is that of be ing able to trifle upon occasion . No character can possibly be more contemptible than that of a talk ing , empty , giggling fool , who is incapable of fixing his attention upon any thing that is ...
... learned in life , is that of be ing able to trifle upon occasion . No character can possibly be more contemptible than that of a talk ing , empty , giggling fool , who is incapable of fixing his attention upon any thing that is ...
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... learned ; and I went to a dinner where several of the literati were to be assembled , full of the hopes of having my mind enlightened with knowledge , expanded with sentiment , and charmed with the Atticism of elegant conversation ...
... learned ; and I went to a dinner where several of the literati were to be assembled , full of the hopes of having my mind enlightened with knowledge , expanded with sentiment , and charmed with the Atticism of elegant conversation ...
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... learned , by degrees , that the money he received for the last two years he resided in London , had come from Leonora ; that she had paid all his debts there , and with the small remains of her fortune , had purchased an annuity of a ...
... learned , by degrees , that the money he received for the last two years he resided in London , had come from Leonora ; that she had paid all his debts there , and with the small remains of her fortune , had purchased an annuity of a ...
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... learned . “ They , being book - learned gentlemen , write in dison of and silly persons . vers tongues , whereby we poor 102 MIRROR . N ° 75 .
... learned . “ They , being book - learned gentlemen , write in dison of and silly persons . vers tongues , whereby we poor 102 MIRROR . N ° 75 .
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... learned languages , I pretend not to give any opinion . Thus Ι much , however , I may be allowed to say without offence , that they are the historians of the vulgar ; that , in our country , the persons who pass under the name of the ...
... learned languages , I pretend not to give any opinion . Thus Ι much , however , I may be allowed to say without offence , that they are the historians of the vulgar ; that , in our country , the persons who pass under the name of the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance acquired admiration Æsop affections agreeable allowed amidst amusements Antonio appearance attended battle of Culloden beauty called cation character circumstances companions conduct conversation death dinner disposition dreams eclogue elegant Emilia endeavoured engaged entertainment equally fashion father favour feelings Flint fortune frequently friends friendship gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour indulgence ladies late Laurentum learned lived lively colours look Louisa manner marriage Melfort ment mind Mirror Miss Juliana nature neighbours nerally never nonsense verses object obliged observed paper passion Pastoral Poetry perhaps persons pleasure possessed racter received satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scene Scotland seemed sensible sentiments shew Sir Edward situation society sometimes soon sort spect spirit taste thing thought tion tivate torrent streams town TUESDAY Umphraville virtue wife wish writing XXXV young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 171 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Seite 171 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Seite 248 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Seite 249 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Seite 139 - ... than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Seite 127 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Seite 302 - Edward, after being blooded, was put to bed, and tended with every possible care by his host and his family. A considerable degree of fever was the consequence of his accident ; but after some days it abated , and, in little more than a week, he was able to join in the society of Venoni and his daughter.
Seite 305 - I wished, though it wounded the heart of my dearest benefactress — but I will make a severe expiation.. This moment I leave you, Louisa! I go to be wretched; but you may be happy, happy in your duty to a father, happy, it may be, in the arms of a husband, whom the possession of such a wife may teach refinement and sensibility. — I go to my native country, to...
Seite 76 - In effect the civil officers of this government might be reduced to a very scanty number, were their exigency alone to determine the list of your covenanted servants, which at this time...
Seite 304 - Sir Edward pressed to know the cause; after some hesitation she told it all. Her father had fixed on the son of a neighbour, rich in possessions, but rude in manners, for her husband. Against this match she had always protested as strongly as a sense of duty, and the mildness of her nature, would allow; but Venoni was obstinately bent on the match, and she was wretched from the thoughts of it — ' To marry, where one cannot love, — to marry such a man, Sir Edward !' It was an opportunity beyond...