The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Том 41 |
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... took for flattering himself , by introducing a kind of chorus , wherein he takes occasion to tell his hearers , that careless of all vulgar censure , as not depending on common approbation , he is confident his plays shall super ...
... took for flattering himself , by introducing a kind of chorus , wherein he takes occasion to tell his hearers , that careless of all vulgar censure , as not depending on common approbation , he is confident his plays shall super ...
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... took him up , a nimble artist might have made the glove : at last , however , it was over , and the boy was putting himself in order of retreat , when the master observing that I had omitted the necessary bend of my wrist upon receiving ...
... took him up , a nimble artist might have made the glove : at last , however , it was over , and the boy was putting himself in order of retreat , when the master observing that I had omitted the necessary bend of my wrist upon receiving ...
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... took care his daughter should be instructed in every thing he did not understand himself , and as the girl grew exceedingly vain of the applause of the pedagogue , who read to her , the merchant grew as vain of the scholarship of his ...
... took care his daughter should be instructed in every thing he did not understand himself , and as the girl grew exceedingly vain of the applause of the pedagogue , who read to her , the merchant grew as vain of the scholarship of his ...
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... concluded must be the master of the mansion waiting our approach ; and as I perceived he had his hat under his arm , expecting us with great politeness and civility , I instantly took mine from my head , and called to No 4 . 21 OBSERVER .
... concluded must be the master of the mansion waiting our approach ; and as I perceived he had his hat under his arm , expecting us with great politeness and civility , I instantly took mine from my head , and called to No 4 . 21 OBSERVER .
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. instantly took mine from my head , and called to our driver to stop the carriage , for that I perceived Sir Theodore was come out to meet us . My com- panion was at this time exceedingly busy in ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. instantly took mine from my head , and called to our driver to stop the carriage , for that I perceived Sir Theodore was come out to meet us . My com- panion was at this time exceedingly busy in ...
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Сторінка 208 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Сторінка 205 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Сторінка 28 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean ; There, where your argosies with portly sail. Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curtsy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Сторінка 3 - I must confess I am amazed that the press should be only made use of in this way by newswriters, and the zealots of parties ; as if it were not more advantageous to mankind, to. be instructed in wisdom and virtue, than in politics; and to be made good fathers, husbands and sons, than counsellors and statesmen.
Сторінка 160 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greatness, unaffected wisdom, And sanctity of manners.
Сторінка 74 - Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis, and dull Aretine But coldly imitated. Then, my glasses Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse And multiply the figures, as I walk Naked between my succubae. My mists I'll have of perfume, vapour'd 'bout the room, To lose ourselves in...
Сторінка 208 - I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.
Сторінка 255 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, — senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a Christian is?
Сторінка 74 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Сторінка 196 - ... reproach, who is a stranger to the guilt that is implied in it ? or subject himself to the penalty, when he knows he has never committed the crime ? This is a piece of fortitude which every one owes to his own innocence, and without which it is impossible for a man of any merit or figure to live at peace with himself, in a country that abounds with wit and liberty.