The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Том 14 |
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... mean by an easy mien , one which can be on occasion easily affected : for I must tell you , dear Jenny , I hold one maxim , which is an uncommon one , to wit , that our greatest charms are owing to affectation . It is to that our arms ...
... mean by an easy mien , one which can be on occasion easily affected : for I must tell you , dear Jenny , I hold one maxim , which is an uncommon one , to wit , that our greatest charms are owing to affectation . It is to that our arms ...
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... means , and with different motives . To one it consists in an extensive undis- puted empire over his subjects , to the other in their rational and voluntary obedience . One's hap- piness is founded in their want of power , the other's ...
... means , and with different motives . To one it consists in an extensive undis- puted empire over his subjects , to the other in their rational and voluntary obedience . One's hap- piness is founded in their want of power , the other's ...
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... mean , according to the figure he is to make amongst them , what fancy would not be debauched to believe they were but what they professed them- selves his mere creatures , and use them as such , by purchasing with their lives a ...
... mean , according to the figure he is to make amongst them , what fancy would not be debauched to believe they were but what they professed them- selves his mere creatures , and use them as such , by purchasing with their lives a ...
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... mean that system of bodies into which nature has so cu- riously wrought the mass of dead matter , with the several relations which those bodies bear to one another ; there is still , methinks , something more wonderful and surprising in ...
... mean that system of bodies into which nature has so cu- riously wrought the mass of dead matter , with the several relations which those bodies bear to one another ; there is still , methinks , something more wonderful and surprising in ...
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... mean , that can report what they have seen or heard : and this through incapacity or preju- dice , one of which ... meaning . I must confess I formerly have turn- ed this humour of mine to very good account ; for whenever I heard any ...
... mean , that can report what they have seen or heard : and this through incapacity or preju- dice , one of which ... meaning . I must confess I formerly have turn- ed this humour of mine to very good account ; for whenever I heard any ...
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acquainted admirer Anacreon animals appear beautiful black tower Blank body Britomartis character Cicero cities of London city of Westminster club consider conversation creatures CREECH death desire discourse divine drachmas endeavour entertain epigram excellent eyes fancy father favour forbear fortune Freeport gentleman give hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope human humble servant humour husband infinite JUNE 23 kind lady learned letter live look manner marriage matter mean Menander mentioned mind nature never obliged observed occasion OVID paper particular passion person pleased pleasure poet poetical justice praise present Procris racters readers reason shoeing horn short sorrow soul speak species Spect SPECTATOR talk Tatler tell thing thou thought tion town VIRG virtue virtuous whole woman worthy writ writing young
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Страница 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Страница 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Страница 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Страница 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Страница 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Страница 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Страница 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Страница 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Страница 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Страница 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.