The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes11-12 |
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... truth of it is , a woman seldom asks ad- vice before she has bought her wedding clothes . When she has made her own choice , for form's sake , she sends a congé d'élire to her friends . If we look into the secret springs and motives ...
... truth of it is , a woman seldom asks ad- vice before she has bought her wedding clothes . When she has made her own choice , for form's sake , she sends a congé d'élire to her friends . If we look into the secret springs and motives ...
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... truth is , we generally make love in a style and with sentiments very unfit for ordinary life : they are half theatrical , half romantic . By this means we raise our imaginations to what is not to be expected in human life ; and ...
... truth is , we generally make love in a style and with sentiments very unfit for ordinary life : they are half theatrical , half romantic . By this means we raise our imaginations to what is not to be expected in human life ; and ...
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... truth of it is , they have a certain flavour at their first appear- ance , from several accidental circumstances of time , place , and person , which they may lose if they are not taken early ; but in this case , every reader is to ...
... truth of it is , they have a certain flavour at their first appear- ance , from several accidental circumstances of time , place , and person , which they may lose if they are not taken early ; but in this case , every reader is to ...
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... truth , any satisfac- tion beyond the boundaries of reason is but a step towards madness and folly . But is the sense of joy and accomplishment of desire no way to be indulged or attained ? and have we appetites given us to be at all ...
... truth , any satisfac- tion beyond the boundaries of reason is but a step towards madness and folly . But is the sense of joy and accomplishment of desire no way to be indulged or attained ? and have we appetites given us to be at all ...
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... loitering way of reading , something will remain to be food to the imagination . The writings that please me most on such occasions are stories , for the truth of which there is good authority . The mind No. 491 . 105 SPECTATOR .
... loitering way of reading , something will remain to be food to the imagination . The writings that please me most on such occasions are stories , for the truth of which there is good authority . The mind No. 491 . 105 SPECTATOR .
Términos y frases comunes
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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...