The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes11-12 |
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... lives , in gratitude for that great blessing . This mis- fortune is so very great and unfrequent , that one would think an establishment for all the poor under it might be easily accomplished , with the addition of a very few others to ...
... lives , in gratitude for that great blessing . This mis- fortune is so very great and unfrequent , that one would think an establishment for all the poor under it might be easily accomplished , with the addition of a very few others to ...
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... live , dead more than half : O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark , total eclipse , Without all hopes of day . 77 . " The enjoyment of sight , then , being so great a blessing , and the loss of it so ...
... live , dead more than half : O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark , total eclipse , Without all hopes of day . 77 . " The enjoyment of sight , then , being so great a blessing , and the loss of it so ...
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... live in gardens , have never thought of contrving a winter garden , which should consist of such trees only as never cast their leaves . We have very often little snatches of sunshine and fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of ...
... live in gardens , have never thought of contrving a winter garden , which should consist of such trees only as never cast their leaves . We have very often little snatches of sunshine and fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of ...
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... live ; it is hoped that this ill humour will be much suppressed , when we can have recourse to the fashions of their times , produce them in our . vindication , and be able to show , that it might have been as expensive in queen ...
... live ; it is hoped that this ill humour will be much suppressed , when we can have recourse to the fashions of their times , produce them in our . vindication , and be able to show , that it might have been as expensive in queen ...
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... live . When these are joined to men of warm spirits , without temper or learning , they are frequently corrected with stripes ; but one of our famous lawyers * is of opinion , that this ought to be used sparingly ; as I remember , those ...
... live . When these are joined to men of warm spirits , without temper or learning , they are frequently corrected with stripes ; but one of our famous lawyers * is of opinion , that this ought to be used sparingly ; as I remember , those ...
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
Pasajes populares
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...