Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"W.P. Nimmo, 1864 - 318 Seiten |
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... LAUGHTER , THE DANGER OF SATIRE , LUXURY AND AVARICE : ' AN ALLEGORY , HUMOUR : FALSE AND TRUE , 9 19 24 29 31 THE VISION OF MIRZA : AN ORIENTAL ALLEGORY , NATURAL GENIUS , ON INCONSISTENCY AND IRRESOLUTION , VALUE OF GOOD NATURE , ON ...
... LAUGHTER , THE DANGER OF SATIRE , LUXURY AND AVARICE : ' AN ALLEGORY , HUMOUR : FALSE AND TRUE , 9 19 24 29 31 THE VISION OF MIRZA : AN ORIENTAL ALLEGORY , NATURAL GENIUS , ON INCONSISTENCY AND IRRESOLUTION , VALUE OF GOOD NATURE , ON ...
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... LAUGHTER AND RIDICULE , THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE , ON GOOD INTENTIONS , MEDITATIONS ON ANATOMY , · 213 217 222 227 232 TRUE LIBERALITY , 237 ADVANTAGE OF TRUTH , 241 • THE REASONABLENESS OF VIRTUE : AN ALLEGORY , 245 THE IDEA OF A SUPREME ...
... LAUGHTER AND RIDICULE , THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE , ON GOOD INTENTIONS , MEDITATIONS ON ANATOMY , · 213 217 222 227 232 TRUE LIBERALITY , 237 ADVANTAGE OF TRUTH , 241 • THE REASONABLENESS OF VIRTUE : AN ALLEGORY , 245 THE IDEA OF A SUPREME ...
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... laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short ? The stage might be made a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainments , were it under proper regulations . But the mind never unbends itself so ...
... laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short ? The stage might be made a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainments , were it under proper regulations . But the mind never unbends itself so ...
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... memory has here deceived him ; no such passage is to be found in the Alcoran , though it possibly may in some of the histories of Mohammed's life . Egypt , who was an infidel , used to laugh Proper Employment of Time . 15.
... memory has here deceived him ; no such passage is to be found in the Alcoran , though it possibly may in some of the histories of Mohammed's life . Egypt , who was an infidel , used to laugh Proper Employment of Time . 15.
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... laugh at this circumstance in Mohammed's life , as what was altogether impossible and absurd ; but conversing one day with a great doctor in the law , who had the gift of working miracles , the doctor told him he would quickly convince ...
... laugh at this circumstance in Mohammed's life , as what was altogether impossible and absurd ; but conversing one day with a great doctor in the law , who had the gift of working miracles , the doctor told him he would quickly convince ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acrostic actions admiration advantage Æneid agreeable ALLEGORY ambition animal appear atheist Avarice beautiful bewitching black tower body burlesque cast character cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation creatures delight desire discourse discover Divine drachmas endeavour entertaining evil fable fame fancy filled folly friends genius give greater hand happy heart heaven HESIOD honour human nature ideas Iliad imagination infinitely Jupiter kind laugh laughter live look mankind manner mentioned mind Mirth never notion objects observed occasion ourselves Ovid pain particular passions perfection perpetual person philosopher Pindar Plato pleasing pleasure Plutus poet poverty present proper raise reader reason receive reflect religion reputation ridicule says secret sense shew short sider sight Sir Francis Bacon Sir Roger l'Estrange Socrates soul species temper things thou thought tion truth turn vanity vice Virgil virtue virtuous whole wisdom words writing Xenophon
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 201 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Seite 263 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Seite 66 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Seite 213 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Seite 25 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Seite 210 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Seite 200 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Seite 116 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Seite 268 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.
Seite 67 - Ten thousand, thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.