Miscellanies ...: A journey from this world to the next. A voyage to LisbonJ.M. Dent, 1893 |
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acquainted afterwards answered appeared apprehend attended beauty began behaviour believe bishop called captain Chapter character Charles the Simple Cocytus countenance court cried death desire distemper doth drachma dropsy Elysium emperor endeavoured enjoyed Eutropius extremely father favour favourite fellow fool fortune gate gave Gelimer gentleman give Gravesend greatest happiness hath honour imagined immediately Jonathan Wild journey Julian Julian the apostate Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king labour lady latter least likewise Lisbon lived Lucilius manner means Minos miserable never obliged observed occasion opinion ordered passengers passion perceived perhaps person pleased pleasure poet present prince reader reason received scarce seemed shew ship smile soon spirit suffered surprized tar-water thane of Sussex thought tion told took travelled truth utmost vanity WHEEL OF FORTune whole wife wind wise woman word young
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Сторінка 170 - My wife, who behaved more like a heroine and philosopher, though at the same time the tenderest mother in the world, and my 'eldest daughter, followed me; some friends went with us, and others here took their leave; and I heard my behaviour applauded, with many murmurs and praises to which I well knew I had no title; as all other such philosophers may, if they have any modesty, confess on the like occasions.
Сторінка 38 - ... me in Elysium, till I discovered by intuition that every soul retained its principal characteristic, being, indeed, its very essence. The line was that celebrated one in Othello — Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Сторінка 36 - The judge then addressed himself to me, who little expected to pass this fiery trial. I confessed I had indulged myself very freely with wine and women in my youth, but had never done an injury to any man living, nor avoided an opportunity of doing good, that I pretended to very little virtue more than general philanthropy and private friendship. — I was proceeding when Minos bid me enter the gate, and not indulge myself with trumpeting forth my virtues.
Сторінка 169 - On this day, the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook. By the light of this sun, I was, in my own opinion, last to behold and take leave of some of those creatures on whom I doated with a mother-like fondness, guided by nature and passion, and uncured and unhardened by all the doctrine of that philosophical school where I had learnt to bear pains and to despise death.
Сторінка 40 - I marvel nothing so much as that men will gird themselves at discovering obscure beauties in an author. Certes the greatest and most pregnant beauties are ever the plainest and most evidently striking; and when two meanings of a passage can in the least balance our judgments which to prefer, I hold it matter of unquestionable certainty that neither of them is worth a farthing.
Сторінка 157 - The principal and most material of those terms was the immediately depositing six hundred pounds in my hands; at which small charge I undertook to demolish the then reigning gangs, and to put the civil policy into such order, that no such gangs should ever be able, for the future, to form themselves into bodies, or at least to remain any time formidable to the public.
Сторінка 169 - In this situation, as I could not conquer nature, I submitted entirely to her, and she made as great a fool of me as she had ever done of any woman whatsoever ; under pretence of giving me leave to enjoy, she drew me in to suffer the company of my little ones during eight hours; and I doubt not whether, in that time, I did not undergo more than in all my distemper.
Сторінка 188 - I proceeded to ask of what rank he was in the customhouse, and receiving an answer from his companion, as I remember, that the gentleman was a riding surveyor ; I replied, that he might be a riding surveyor, but could be no gentleman, for that none who had any title to that denomination would break into the presence of a lady without an apology, or even moving his hat. He then took his covering from his head, and laid it on the table, saying, he asked pardon, and blamed the mate, who should, he said,...
Сторінка 160 - I had more business than he had ever known there ; 1 am sure I had as much as any man could do. The truth is, the fees are so very low, when any are due, and so much is done for nothing, that, if a single justice of peace had business enough to employ twenty clerks, neither he nor they would get much by their labour.
Сторінка 270 - ... which, while the horizon was yet blazing with glory, our eyes were called off to the opposite part to survey the moon, which was then at full, and which in rising presented us with the second object that this world hath offered to our vision. Compared to these the pageantry of theatres, or splendour of courts, are sights almost below the regard of children.