Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected by James Prior, Volumen1Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate our inquiry . In deviating from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object , yet it is possible we may meet several ...
... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate our inquiry . In deviating from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object , yet it is possible we may meet several ...
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... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at mediocrity , we run no risk , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever per suading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at mediocrity , we run no risk , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever per suading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
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... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that pro- fession were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that pro- fession were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
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... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been established with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ranged ...
... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been established with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ranged ...
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... excellence of the Bangorian Controversy , * and the absurdity of an intermediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucubration without lifting his nose from the text , and never ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By this ...
... excellence of the Bangorian Controversy , * and the absurdity of an intermediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucubration without lifting his nose from the text , and never ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By this ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admiration Æneid amusement ancient appear Asem beauty Broom of Cowdenknows called character Cicero comedy continued David Rizzio Demetrius Phalereus dress eloquence endeavor enemies England English entertainment ESSAY Europe excellence expect expression eyes fame fancy folly fond fortune France French friends friendship genius gentleman give happiness honor humor Iliad imagination imitation improvement Italy king king of Prussia labors lady language liberty lived Lysippus Manetho mankind manner means ment merit Metastasio mind nation nature never obliged observed occasion once orator passion perceived perhaps philosopher Pindar Planxty pleasing pleasure poet poetry polite learning possessed praise present prince proper quæ Quintilian reader ridiculous says scarcely seemed seldom sense sentiments society Spain spirit spondees taste Thespis thing thought tion truth Virgil virtue Voltaire vulgar whole word writer
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Página 296 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Página 24 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Página 296 - To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect...
Página 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 314 - She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 434 - And, indeed, a child of the public he is in all respects; for while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of guiding himself. His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning, his sensibility to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant, as to agonize under die slightest disappointment.
Página 75 - ... in this manner it continued to lay siege 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...
Página 369 - If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that Folly, instead of being ridiculed. Is commended, and the Comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.
Página 303 - Either there is a civil strife in heaven, Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction.
Página 76 - 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 of my hand ; and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared cither for a defence or an attack.