The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Band 16 |
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... soul animated with nobler views , and know that the distinction of wealth and plenteous cir- cumstances , is a tax upon an honest mind , to en- deavour , as much as the occurrences of life will give him leave , to guard the properties ...
... soul animated with nobler views , and know that the distinction of wealth and plenteous cir- cumstances , is a tax upon an honest mind , to en- deavour , as much as the occurrences of life will give him leave , to guard the properties ...
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... soul , there is no subject I could launch into with more pleasure than your panegyrick . But since something is due to modesty , let me conclude by telling you , that there is nothing so much I desire as to know you more thoroughly than ...
... soul , there is no subject I could launch into with more pleasure than your panegyrick . But since something is due to modesty , let me conclude by telling you , that there is nothing so much I desire as to know you more thoroughly than ...
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... soul to be exalted and enlarged , as well as soothed . This often requires a raised figurative style ; which readers of low apprehensions or soft and languid dis- positions ( having heard of the words , fustian and bombast ) are apt to ...
... soul to be exalted and enlarged , as well as soothed . This often requires a raised figurative style ; which readers of low apprehensions or soft and languid dis- positions ( having heard of the words , fustian and bombast ) are apt to ...
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... soul , inspire easy thoughts . Of the thoughts suggested by these gentle sub- jects , there are some which may be set off by style and ornament . Others there are , which the more simply they are conceived , and the more clearly they ...
... soul , inspire easy thoughts . Of the thoughts suggested by these gentle sub- jects , there are some which may be set off by style and ornament . Others there are , which the more simply they are conceived , and the more clearly they ...
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... and as we are men of honour ( for I must not speak as we are Christians ) let us not desert our friends for the loss of their noses . * Viz . Lent . N ° 18. WEDNESDAY , AR Mortis Souls , andismay's 96 No 17 . GUARDIAN .
... and as we are men of honour ( for I must not speak as we are Christians ) let us not desert our friends for the loss of their noses . * Viz . Lent . N ° 18. WEDNESDAY , AR Mortis Souls , andismay's 96 No 17 . GUARDIAN .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Aguire ancient appear APRIL Arbor Porphyriana beauty better called character Charwell conversation Corydon countenance daughter delight desire discourse divisions of low dress easy eclogues endeavour eyes fancy favour fortune free-thinker genius gentleman give greater GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humour Iago imagination innocence Ironside kind king labour lady Lizard laugh learning live look Lord lord Roscommon lover madam maid mankind manner Megaric merit mind mother nature neral never night observed occasion Othello paper passions pastoral pastoral poetry person Philips pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry reader reason satisfaction Scaron sense shepherds shew smile song soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE Syphax taste TATLER Theocritus thing thou thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous wherein WHIG whole woman words writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 252 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Seite 252 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Seite 271 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Seite 252 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Seite 252 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Seite 150 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause...
Seite 101 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Seite 21 - ... part ought to have inspired with nobler and juster sentiments. This prostitution of praise is not only a deceit upon the gross of mankind, who take their notion of characters from the learned; but also the better sort must by this means lose some part at least of that desire of fame which is the incentive to generous actions, when they find it promiscuously bestowed on the meritorious and undeserving...
Seite 215 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...
Seite 16 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.