Select British Classics, Volumen3J. Conrad, 1804 |
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... speak to them in the tones of anger , and sometimes it was even ne- cessary to use blows , to excite them to their duty . How different these from the common people of England , whom a blow might induce to return the af- front sevenfold ...
... speak to them in the tones of anger , and sometimes it was even ne- cessary to use blows , to excite them to their duty . How different these from the common people of England , whom a blow might induce to return the af- front sevenfold ...
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... speak without metaphor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty . Our ladies , on the contrary , seem to have no other standard for grace but the run of the town . If fashion gives ...
... speak without metaphor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty . Our ladies , on the contrary , seem to have no other standard for grace but the run of the town . If fashion gives ...
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... speak my mind , cousin " Jeffery , I never liked tails ; for suppose a young " fellow should be rude , and the lady should offer to “ step back in a fright , instead of retiring , she treads 66 upon her train , and falls fairly on her ...
... speak my mind , cousin " Jeffery , I never liked tails ; for suppose a young " fellow should be rude , and the lady should offer to “ step back in a fright , instead of retiring , she treads 66 upon her train , and falls fairly on her ...
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... speak of her beauty , her knowledge , and her virtue . Nay , so much harmony reigns in their accounts of this prodigy of perfection , that , in spite of the opposition of their faith , we should never have been able to judge of what ...
... speak of her beauty , her knowledge , and her virtue . Nay , so much harmony reigns in their accounts of this prodigy of perfection , that , in spite of the opposition of their faith , we should never have been able to judge of what ...
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... speaking , is the only virtue , and all the rest have their origin in it . The qualities of candour , fortitude , charity , and ge- nerosity , for instance , are not , in their own nature , vir- tues ; and , if ever they deserve the ...
... speaking , is the only virtue , and all the rest have their origin in it . The qualities of candour , fortitude , charity , and ge- nerosity , for instance , are not , in their own nature , vir- tues ; and , if ever they deserve the ...
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acquaintance admiration Alcander amusement appearance assured attempt attended beauty Bidderman character Charles II coachman continue creature custom dæmon diction distress dress effeminacy eloquence endeavour enemy English English language entertainment esteem expect eyes fame fancied favour feel figure fortune friends friendship frugality generosity genius gentleman give glory hand happy humour Hypasia imagination imitate Italy justice king king of Prussia labour lady language laugh laws learning Lysippus mankind manner master Maupertuis merit Metastasio mind miser Montesquieu nature nerally never nosegay obliged observed occasion Olinda once orator passion perceived perhaps perly philosopher pleased pleasure poet polite poor portunity possessed praise present pride racter regard replied republic of letters reputation ridicule Sabinus Saracens seems seldom Septimius society speak spider style Sweden taste thing thought tion truth virtue Voltaire vulgar whole writer
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Página 70 - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Página 71 - ... to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance might give the captive strength sufficient to get loose : the manner then is to wait patiently till, by ineffectual and impotent struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then...
Página 76 - What a gloom hangs all around ! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. " There will come a time, when this temporary solitude may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room.
Página 69 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was, with incredible diligence, completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Página 70 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb.
Página 71 - I once put a wasp into the net; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Página 42 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Página 78 - Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Página 72 - The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Página 76 - To the same. 5HE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy, are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person.