The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Band 16 |
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... young Men - Fashion of driving Carriages 15. Love Verses - easy Writing .. 16. On Poetry - Songs - Song Writing • 17. On illicit Love - Story of a French Knight 18. Thoughts on the Prospect of Death --Psalm by Sir Philip Sidney .... 19 ...
... young Men - Fashion of driving Carriages 15. Love Verses - easy Writing .. 16. On Poetry - Songs - Song Writing • 17. On illicit Love - Story of a French Knight 18. Thoughts on the Prospect of Death --Psalm by Sir Philip Sidney .... 19 ...
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... young man , was an occasional contributor . These papers were collected and published in four volumes , 1747 ; there is some vivacity and hu- mour , and some knowledge of life and manners in many of them ; the intention , at least , was ...
... young man , was an occasional contributor . These papers were collected and published in four volumes , 1747 ; there is some vivacity and hu- mour , and some knowledge of life and manners in many of them ; the intention , at least , was ...
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... young Mr. Lizard of Northampton- shire . He was sent for a little before he was of bachelor's standing , to be married to Mrs. Jane Lizard , an heiress , whose father would have it so for the sake of the name . Mr. Ambrose knew nothing ...
... young Mr. Lizard of Northampton- shire . He was sent for a little before he was of bachelor's standing , to be married to Mrs. Jane Lizard , an heiress , whose father would have it so for the sake of the name . Mr. Ambrose knew nothing ...
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... young men of the age are kept safe from reflection by dabbling in their rhapsodies , without tasting the pleasures for which their doctrines leave them unaccountable . Thus do heavy mortals , only to gratify a dry pride of heart , give ...
... young men of the age are kept safe from reflection by dabbling in their rhapsodies , without tasting the pleasures for which their doctrines leave them unaccountable . Thus do heavy mortals , only to gratify a dry pride of heart , give ...
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... young nobleman's permis- sion to pay him her kneeling adorations , ' I am far from censuring the expression , as some criticks would do , as deficient in grammar or sense ; but I reflect , that adorations paid in that posture are what a ...
... young nobleman's permis- sion to pay him her kneeling adorations , ' I am far from censuring the expression , as some criticks would do , as deficient in grammar or sense ; but I reflect , that adorations paid in that posture are what a ...
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.