The British Essayists: AdventurerJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... able to refrain from cards than to fly : ' and a few nights afterwards I observed her chairmen waiting at the door of a great lady , who seldom sees company but on a Sunday , and then has always the happiness of en- gaging a brilliant ...
... able to refrain from cards than to fly : ' and a few nights afterwards I observed her chairmen waiting at the door of a great lady , who seldom sees company but on a Sunday , and then has always the happiness of en- gaging a brilliant ...
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... abridged of so consider- able a portion of their profits . A Tyburn execution , a duel , a most terrible fire , or a horrid , barbarous , bloody , cruel and inhuman murder , was wont to bring in vast revenues to N ° 43 . ADVENTURER . 7.
... abridged of so consider- able a portion of their profits . A Tyburn execution , a duel , a most terrible fire , or a horrid , barbarous , bloody , cruel and inhuman murder , was wont to bring in vast revenues to N ° 43 . ADVENTURER . 7.
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... able to repress the at- -tacks of curiosity , and to resist those powerful en- gines that will be employed against him , wine and resentment . Such are the powers that he must constantly exert , after a trust is reposed in him : and ...
... able to repress the at- -tacks of curiosity , and to resist those powerful en- gines that will be employed against him , wine and resentment . Such are the powers that he must constantly exert , after a trust is reposed in him : and ...
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... able to distinguish himself as the head of a party , he will less readily be made a follower or an associate . The reigning philosophy informs us , that the vast , bodies which constitute the universe , are regulated in their progress ...
... able to distinguish himself as the head of a party , he will less readily be made a follower or an associate . The reigning philosophy informs us , that the vast , bodies which constitute the universe , are regulated in their progress ...
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... massacre the women whom he found in the tent of Darius neither did honest Bagshot kill the gentle- man whom he had plundered , when he was no longer able to resist . If Bagshot , then , is justly dragged to prison N ° 47 . 33 ADVENTURER .
... massacre the women whom he found in the tent of Darius neither did honest Bagshot kill the gentle- man whom he had plundered , when he was no longer able to resist . If Bagshot , then , is justly dragged to prison N ° 47 . 33 ADVENTURER .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absurd acquainted ADVENTURER Æneid Agrestis Amana Amelia appear Aristotle bagnio Bagshot beauty believe Boileau Caliph Captain character coach conceal conduct consider contempt countenance daugh dear Charlotte death desire dignity disappointment discovered distress dreadful effect equally esteem Eugenio Euripides expected eyes falsehood father favour folly fortune Freeman genius gentleman gratify guilt hand happiness heart Homer honour hope human Iliad imagine immediately indignation knew labour Lady Forrest lady's secret less look mankind ment mind misery Miss Meadows morning nature ness never night Nouraddin object Odyssey opinion Osmin OVID PALINGENIUS passion perceived perhaps person Pindar pleasure poets POPE present principles produced Prosopopoeia punished purple emperor racters reason received ridiculous SATURDAY says scarce sentiments Serenus servant shew Sir James Socrates soon Sophocles suffered tain tenderness thou thought Tibullus tion told truth TUESDAY Ventosus vice VIRG virtue wife wish writers XXIV
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 56 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great.
Seite 94 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Seite 307 - I will up, saith the Lord : and will help every one from him that swelleth against him, and will set him at rest. 7 The words of the Lord are pure words : even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.
Seite 46 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Seite 56 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Seite 93 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Seite 57 - Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Seite 94 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb ? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a...
Seite 55 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Seite 134 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!