The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes11-12 |
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... happiness of thinking nothing a diminution to me , but what argues a depravity of my will . It has as much surprised me as any thing in na- ture , to have it frequently said that he was not a good player : but that must be owing to a ...
... happiness of thinking nothing a diminution to me , but what argues a depravity of my will . It has as much surprised me as any thing in na- ture , to have it frequently said that he was not a good player : but that must be owing to a ...
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... happiness of thinking nothing a diminution to me , but what argues a depravity of my will . my It has as much surprised me as any thing in na- ture , to have it frequently said that he was not a good player : but that must be owing to a ...
... happiness of thinking nothing a diminution to me , but what argues a depravity of my will . my It has as much surprised me as any thing in na- ture , to have it frequently said that he was not a good player : but that must be owing to a ...
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... happiness , before they are in being ; we can set the sun and stars forward , or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity , when the heavens and earth shall be no more . By the way , who can imagine that the ...
... happiness , before they are in being ; we can set the sun and stars forward , or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity , when the heavens and earth shall be no more . By the way , who can imagine that the ...
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... happiness . I have before shown how the influence of hope in general sweetens life , and makes our present condition supportable , if not pleasing ; but a reli- gious hope has still greater advantages . It does not only bear up the mind ...
... happiness . I have before shown how the influence of hope in general sweetens life , and makes our present condition supportable , if not pleasing ; but a reli- gious hope has still greater advantages . It does not only bear up the mind ...
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... happiness , as ever the French were to that of the public , and I would be at an annual expense in spies to observe their motions . Whenever I should be surprised with a visit , as I hate drinking , I would be brisk in swilling bumpers ...
... happiness , as ever the French were to that of the public , and I would be at an annual expense in spies to observe their motions . Whenever I should be surprised with a visit , as I hate drinking , I would be brisk in swilling bumpers ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admirer agreeable annis Miles appear Aristippus beautiful Blank body cern character cities of London consider conversation creatures desire discourse distemper divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain excellent favour Flamstead fortune gentleman give glory Godfrey Kneller greatest hand happy hear heard heart heaven honest honour hope humble servant humour husband imagine infinite JUNE 23 kind lady learned letter live look manner marriage married matter means ment mention mind nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID paper particular passion person Peter Motteux pleased pleasure potential mood present reader reason received Rechteren Renatus Harris RICHARD STEELE Roman dictator says sense Shalum short soul speak species spect Spectator tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told town VIRG virtue vullis Waitfort whig whole woman words writ writing young
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Página 234 - It must be so ; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 20 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Página 14 - I HAVE SET THE LoRD ALWAYS BEFORE ME : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 8 - ... my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o'...
Página 94 - These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Página 313 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Página 14 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Página 207 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Página 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 114 - God's existence, by telling us that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment : that eternity is with him...