Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent British Poets, Nide 6J. Sharpe, 1810 |
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... conversation , as well as life , happiness very often depends upon the slightest incidents . The taking notice of the badness of the weather , a north - east wind , the ap- proach of winter , or any trifling circumstance of the ...
... conversation , as well as life , happiness very often depends upon the slightest incidents . The taking notice of the badness of the weather , a north - east wind , the ap- proach of winter , or any trifling circumstance of the ...
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... conversation and writing . Words , by representing ideas , become the picture of our thoughts , and communicate them with the greatest fidelity . But they are not only the sign of sensible ideas , they exhibit the very image and ...
... conversation and writing . Words , by representing ideas , become the picture of our thoughts , and communicate them with the greatest fidelity . But they are not only the sign of sensible ideas , they exhibit the very image and ...
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... conversation , and made happy bon mots , ought to write well ; and imagine that they themselves were made to laugh by the force of genius : but they are generally disappointed when they see the admired character descend upon paper . The ...
... conversation , and made happy bon mots , ought to write well ; and imagine that they themselves were made to laugh by the force of genius : but they are generally disappointed when they see the admired character descend upon paper . The ...
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BOOK XI | 1 |
Marriage compared with single Life Bishop Taylor | 10 |
The same subject | 16 |
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affections agreeable beauty better cern cheerfulness common consider conversation Coriolanus Crito danger death debt desire doth endeavour enemy evil father faults fear folly fool fortune gamester give hand happiness hath hear heart Heaven honest honour human humour keep kind king labour laudanum laws learning less liberty lies long live look looking-glass lords spiritual man's mankind marriage master men's mind ministers of religion mother nature nerally never noble observed pain passions peace perhaps persons pleasing pleasure Poor Richard says praise prosperity racter reason religion revenge rich Rome Scythian seldom sorrow soul speak spirit tell temper tender thee thing thou thought tion true truth vanity Veturia vice virtue virtuous Volsci Volscian Volumnia wife wine wisdom wise woman women word young youth