The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Томови 17-18 |
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... thoughts of the present set of young people . " With this answer I was kept quiet for several years , and thought it no great inconvenience to be confined to the country , till last summer a young gentleman and his sister came down to ...
... thoughts of the present set of young people . " With this answer I was kept quiet for several years , and thought it no great inconvenience to be confined to the country , till last summer a young gentleman and his sister came down to ...
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... thought it desirable to be delivered . But this know- ledge , though it is easily gained by the trial , is not always attainable any other way ; and that error can- not justly be reproached , which reason could not ob- viate , nor ...
... thought it desirable to be delivered . But this know- ledge , though it is easily gained by the trial , is not always attainable any other way ; and that error can- not justly be reproached , which reason could not ob- viate , nor ...
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... thought ; yet incon- stancy , however dignified by its motives , is always to be avoided , because life allows us but a small time for inquiry and experiment , and he that steadily en- deavours at excellence , in whatever employment ...
... thought ; yet incon- stancy , however dignified by its motives , is always to be avoided , because life allows us but a small time for inquiry and experiment , and he that steadily en- deavours at excellence , in whatever employment ...
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... thought the curse only of se- nates , of armies , and of courts ; and the rival dancers of an obscure assembly have their partisans and abettors , often not less exasperated against each other , than those who are promoting the ...
... thought the curse only of se- nates , of armies , and of courts ; and the rival dancers of an obscure assembly have their partisans and abettors , often not less exasperated against each other , than those who are promoting the ...
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... thought them- selves out of the reach of censure , broke out from their restraint , like winds imprisoned in their ca- yerns ; and whom every one had reason to love , but they whose love a wise man is chiefly solicitous to 40 NO . 68 ...
... thought them- selves out of the reach of censure , broke out from their restraint , like winds imprisoned in their ca- yerns ; and whom every one had reason to love , but they whose love a wise man is chiefly solicitous to 40 NO . 68 ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty celebrated censure common considered contempt curiosity Dagon danger delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discovered DRYDEN easily elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes fancy father favour fear flattered folly fortune frequently genius gratify happiness heart hexameter honour hope hour human idleness imagination inclined inquiry JANUARY 26 judgement Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less live look mankind ment Milton mind miscarriage misery nature necessary neglect nerally ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions pauses perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets portunity praise precepts produce quired racters RAMBLER reason regard reproach rest risum Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sound spect suffer surely suspiria syllables thing thou thought tion tivate truth TUESDAY tural vanity verse VIRG Virgil virtue wisdom writer
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Страница 192 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Страница 252 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Страница 106 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Страница 145 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
Страница 248 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Страница 136 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But...
Страница 145 - Mosaic ; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature here, Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter none, Such was their awe of man.
Страница 26 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...