Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Nide 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 sivua |
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Sivu 17
... kind be extinct ? Inftances of tenderness in the moft favage brutes are fo frequent , that quotations of that kind are altogether un- necellary . If we , who have no particular concern in them , take a fecret delight in obferving the ...
... kind be extinct ? Inftances of tenderness in the moft favage brutes are fo frequent , that quotations of that kind are altogether un- necellary . If we , who have no particular concern in them , take a fecret delight in obferving the ...
Sivu 22
... kind of virtue that may find employment for thofe retired hours in which we are altogether left to ourselves , and deftitute of company and conversation ; I mean that intercourfe and communication which every reasonable creature ought ...
... kind of virtue that may find employment for thofe retired hours in which we are altogether left to ourselves , and deftitute of company and conversation ; I mean that intercourfe and communication which every reasonable creature ought ...
Sivu 28
... kind the most refined luxury , to raise the mind to its due perfection , and give it a tafte for thofe entertainments which af- ford the highest tranfport , without the groffness or remorse that attend vulgar en joyments . In thofe ...
... kind the most refined luxury , to raise the mind to its due perfection , and give it a tafte for thofe entertainments which af- ford the highest tranfport , without the groffness or remorse that attend vulgar en joyments . In thofe ...
Sivu 31
... kind of gar- den or landskip , and making every thing file about him , whilft , in reality , he thinks of nothing but of the harveft , and increase which is to arife from it . We may further obferve how Provi- dence has taken care to ...
... kind of gar- den or landskip , and making every thing file about him , whilft , in reality , he thinks of nothing but of the harveft , and increase which is to arife from it . We may further obferve how Provi- dence has taken care to ...
Sivu 33
... kind of hypocrite more virtuous . The former is afraid of every thing that has the fhew of religion in it , and would be thought engaged in many criminal gallan- tries and amours , which he is not guilty cf ; the latter affumes a face ...
... kind of hypocrite more virtuous . The former is afraid of every thing that has the fhew of religion in it , and would be thought engaged in many criminal gallan- tries and amours , which he is not guilty cf ; the latter affumes a face ...
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Suositut otteet
Sivu 12 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Sivu 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Sivu 32 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Sivu 180 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Sivu 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Sivu 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Sivu 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Sivu 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Sivu 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Sivu 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...