The British Essayists: AdventurerJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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Sivu 6
... excellence of the tenth Pastoral , I cannot forbear to give the preference to the first , which is equally natural and more diversi- fied . The complaint of the shepherd , who saw his old companion at ease in the shade , while himself ...
... excellence of the tenth Pastoral , I cannot forbear to give the preference to the first , which is equally natural and more diversi- fied . The complaint of the shepherd , who saw his old companion at ease in the shade , while himself ...
Sivu 23
... excellence , will be certain to en- gage a set of readers , whom no other method would have equally allured ; and he that communicates truth with success , must be numbered among the first benefactors to mankind . The same observation ...
... excellence , will be certain to en- gage a set of readers , whom no other method would have equally allured ; and he that communicates truth with success , must be numbered among the first benefactors to mankind . The same observation ...
Sivu 54
... excellence ; I learned several feats of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the practice of ...
... excellence ; I learned several feats of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the practice of ...
Sivu 57
... excellence as derived from truth , they can only please those , who , when they read , exercise no faculty but fancy , and admire because they do not think . If I shall not be thought to digress wholly from my subject , I would ...
... excellence as derived from truth , they can only please those , who , when they read , exercise no faculty but fancy , and admire because they do not think . If I shall not be thought to digress wholly from my subject , I would ...
Sivu 69
... excellence both of body and mind , and decreed that she should be sought in marriage by a sovereign prince . ' 6 When the wife of Omaraddin was pregnant with Shelimah , the fairy Elfarina was again invoked ; at which Farimina , another ...
... excellence both of body and mind , and decreed that she should be sought in marriage by a sovereign prince . ' 6 When the wife of Omaraddin was pregnant with Shelimah , the fairy Elfarina was again invoked ; at which Farimina , another ...
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acquaintance ADVENTURER Almerine Almet appearance bagnio beauty became Caprinus Catiline censure character circumstances Clodio con test considered contempt countenance danger daughters DECEMBER 18 DECEMBER 22 desire diamonds sparkle Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful dress DRYDEN equal Euripides evil excellence eyes father favour fear felicity Flavilla folly fortune frequently Gonerill gratify guilt happiness hast heart Hilario honour hope hour imagination impatient insensibility kind knew labour lady Lear less look mankind manner marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetual pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason reflected SATURDAY scarce scene sentiments servant Shakspeare Shelimah shew solicitous Soliman sometimes soon Sophocles suffered superaddition tenderness thee Theocritus things thou thought tion truth TUESDAY ulmo VIRG virtue wish wretch writers
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Sivu 34 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Sivu 194 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Sivu 135 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
Sivu 149 - Spit, fire ! spout, rain. Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription : then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man...
Sivu 192 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Sivu 60 - In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Sivu 195 - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Sivu 135 - Stain my man's cheeks! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall, — I will do such things, — What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep; No, I'll not weep: — I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll weep. — O fool, I shall go mad!
Sivu 194 - Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Sivu 134 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...