The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... present to be spoken of those great triumviri of the world ; the covetous man , who is a mean villain , like Le- pidus ; the ambitious , who is a brave one , like Octavius ; and the voluptuous , who is a loose and debauched one , like ...
... present to be spoken of those great triumviri of the world ; the covetous man , who is a mean villain , like Le- pidus ; the ambitious , who is a brave one , like Octavius ; and the voluptuous , who is a loose and debauched one , like ...
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... present mind . Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days , that yet belong to fate , Does , like an unthrift , mortgage his estate , Before it falls into his hand : The bondman of the cloister so , All that he does receive ...
... present mind . Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days , that yet belong to fate , Does , like an unthrift , mortgage his estate , Before it falls into his hand : The bondman of the cloister so , All that he does receive ...
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... present rage for figuring in the world , without staying to pass through the wholesome discipline of retirement , is the proper and immediate cause why ability of every kind is so rare among us . - Hurd . # The monster London . ] But ...
... present rage for figuring in the world , without staying to pass through the wholesome discipline of retirement , is the proper and immediate cause why ability of every kind is so rare among us . - Hurd . # The monster London . ] But ...
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... present disposition of the age allowed more proba- bility of bringing it into execution . What I have further to say of the country life , shall be borrowed from the poets , who were always the most faithful and affectionate friends to ...
... present disposition of the age allowed more proba- bility of bringing it into execution . What I have further to say of the country life , shall be borrowed from the poets , who were always the most faithful and affectionate friends to ...
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... present , And with new work his industry ' content . This the young lamb , that the soft fleece doth yield ; This loads with hay , and that with corn the field ; All sorts of fruit crown the rich autumn's pride : And on a swelling ...
... present , And with new work his industry ' content . This the young lamb , that the soft fleece doth yield ; This loads with hay , and that with corn the field ; All sorts of fruit crown the rich autumn's pride : And on a swelling ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 121 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Seite 101 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 28 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Seite 116 - 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.
Seite 121 - Even when I was a very young Boy at School, instead of running about on Holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a Book, or with some one Companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Seite 105 - I thought, when I went first to dwell in the country, that without doubt I should have met there with the simplicity of the old poetical golden age ; I thought to have found no inhabitants there, but such as the shepherds of Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, or of Monsieur d'Urfe...
Seite 126 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Seite 66 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Seite 29 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.