Harrison's British Classicks, Том 7Harrison and Company, 1786 |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 100
Сторінка 9
... town , at forty pounds per annum ; that I am five and thirty years old , and that I have a wife and two children . My fa- ther , who was a clergyman of fome note in the country , unfortunately died foon after I came from college , and ...
... town , at forty pounds per annum ; that I am five and thirty years old , and that I have a wife and two children . My fa- ther , who was a clergyman of fome note in the country , unfortunately died foon after I came from college , and ...
Сторінка 10
... town ; and as our fortunes were pretty equal , and both of us our own mafters , we lodged in the fame house , dressed in the fame manner , followed the fame diver- fions , spent all we had , and were ruin ed together . My friend , whofe ...
... town ; and as our fortunes were pretty equal , and both of us our own mafters , we lodged in the fame house , dressed in the fame manner , followed the fame diver- fions , spent all we had , and were ruin ed together . My friend , whofe ...
Сторінка 11
... town , whither he ufually re- tired in the evening , to avoid ( as he called it ) the perfecutions of his wife . In this cruel feparation , and without complaint , the paffed away a twelve- month ; feldom feeing him but when bufinefs ...
... town , whither he ufually re- tired in the evening , to avoid ( as he called it ) the perfecutions of his wife . In this cruel feparation , and without complaint , the paffed away a twelve- month ; feldom feeing him but when bufinefs ...
Сторінка 12
... town ; and topping in her way home at a thread - thop in a by - treet near St. James's , the faw Mr. Wilfon crofling the way , and afterwards knocking at the door of a genteel houte over - against her , which was opened by a fervant in ...
... town ; and topping in her way home at a thread - thop in a by - treet near St. James's , the faw Mr. Wilfon crofling the way , and afterwards knocking at the door of a genteel houte over - against her , which was opened by a fervant in ...
Сторінка 16
... town is charmed with a genuine cafcade upon the stage , and was in raptures last year with one of tin at Vauxhall , But this is cer- tainly prejudice : the world , Mr. Fitz- Adam , though never fated with show , is fick of fiction . I ...
... town is charmed with a genuine cafcade upon the stage , and was in raptures last year with one of tin at Vauxhall , But this is cer- tainly prejudice : the world , Mr. Fitz- Adam , though never fated with show , is fick of fiction . I ...
Загальні терміни та фрази
abfolutely affure againſt alfo almoft APICIUS becauſe BOILEAU cafe caufe confefs confequence confiderable converfation correfpondent daugh defign defire difcovered drefs fafe faid fame fashion fatire feems feen felf felves fenfe fent fentiments fervant ferve fervice feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fingle fion FITZ-ADAM fociety fome fometimes foon fortune fpirit ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fupport fure gentleman give happy himſelf honour houfe houſe humble fervant huſband inftance inftruction lady laft leaft lefs letter lived mankind ment moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafion paffed paffion perfons philofophers Phocion pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poffibly prefent propofe purpoſe racter readers reafon refpect ſhall ſtate tafte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought THURSDAY tion truth univerfal uſed vifit virtue whofe wife woman worfe
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 163 - that there are many people in the world who would never have been in love if they had never heard talk of it.
Сторінка 205 - I find you are but a bad engineer. While you aim at your mouth you will never hit it, take my word for it. A floating battery, to hit the mark, must be pointed something above or below it. If you would hit your mouth, direct your four-pounder at your forehead, or your chin.
Сторінка 79 - Now sir, I have told you as much as I know of it, though I have admired and aimed at it all my Life.
Сторінка 79 - Your daughters muft have been fo educated as to fit them to be wives without conjugal affedlion, and mothers without maternal care.
Сторінка 42 - I can allure you, fir, that it is a very ferious one to me, notwithftanding the ill-natured comfort which I might have, of thinking it of late a very common one. I AM a gentleman of a reafonable paternal eftate in my county, and ferve as knight of the fhire for it.
Сторінка 366 - I sat like a mope all the night, not daring to look up, for fear of catching the eyes of my acquaintance, who would have laughed me out of countenance. You may imagine, Mr. Fitz-Adam, that I contrived all manner of means to get off from any future engagements with my cousins ; but it has unfortunately so happened, that we have met almost every where.
Сторінка 365 - I cannot but hope it will have some good effect on the conduct of those polite people, who are too sagacious, learned, and courageous to be kept in awe by the threats of hell and damnation...
Сторінка 39 - I never faw either of them fo much as playing with the other's hand — I mean only when they have known I was within fight of them ; I have ftolen upon them unawares indeed, and have been witnefs to fuch words and looks as have quite melted me.
Сторінка 22 - ... by the benefit than he had been before by his wants. But it is the peculiar talent of this gentleman to wound himfelf by proxy, or (in the fportfman's phrafe) to' knock himfelf down by by the recoiling of his own gun.
Сторінка 41 - Such horfes have their necks adorned <c with firings of beads, and relicks, being writings " wrapt up in cloth of gold, or filk, containing the " names of their prophet, and when thefe horfes die, " they are buried with as much ceremony, as the near• " eft relations of their owners.