The British Essayists: AdventurerJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... excellence , will smite his breast like the publican , and cry out , God be merciful to me a sinner ! ' Thus to acquaint us with our- selves , may , perhaps , be one use of the precept ; but the precept cannot , surely , be considered ...
... excellence , will smite his breast like the publican , and cry out , God be merciful to me a sinner ! ' Thus to acquaint us with our- selves , may , perhaps , be one use of the precept ; but the precept cannot , surely , be considered ...
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... excellence to perfection . The repu- tation of his house now brings round him a daily confluence of visitants , and every one tells him of some elegance which he has hitherto overlooked , some convenience not yet procured , or some new ...
... excellence to perfection . The repu- tation of his house now brings round him a daily confluence of visitants , and every one tells him of some elegance which he has hitherto overlooked , some convenience not yet procured , or some new ...
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... excellence , I am per- suaded , will be universally acknowledged , because it will be felt . I shall , however , add some remarks , which , perhaps , may not occur to every mind , as every mind has not acquired a habit of speculation ...
... excellence , I am per- suaded , will be universally acknowledged , because it will be felt . I shall , however , add some remarks , which , perhaps , may not occur to every mind , as every mind has not acquired a habit of speculation ...
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... excellence of the latter ; a task I the more readily induced to undertake , as so little is performed in the dissertation prefixed by Broome to Pope's translation of this work , which one may ven- ture to pronounce is confused ...
... excellence of the latter ; a task I the more readily induced to undertake , as so little is performed in the dissertation prefixed by Broome to Pope's translation of this work , which one may ven- ture to pronounce is confused ...
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... excellence , none seems to have been more exalted above the common rate of humanity , than the man known about two centuries ago by the appellation of the Admirable Crichton ; of whose history , whatever we may suppress as surpassing ...
... excellence , none seems to have been more exalted above the common rate of humanity , than the man known about two centuries ago by the appellation of the Admirable Crichton ; of whose history , whatever we may suppress as surpassing ...
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!