The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Band 35 |
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Seite 41
... turn in conversation , who had only one fault , which was an inordinate desire of appear- ing fashionable . This ran him into many amours , and consequently into many distempers . He never went to bed until two o'clock in the morning ...
... turn in conversation , who had only one fault , which was an inordinate desire of appear- ing fashionable . This ran him into many amours , and consequently into many distempers . He never went to bed until two o'clock in the morning ...
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... turn of wit , as won upon the affections of every one he conversed with . His reputation grew so fast every day , that it at last raised a curiosity in the prince himself to see and talk with him . He did so ; and , far from finding ...
... turn of wit , as won upon the affections of every one he conversed with . His reputation grew so fast every day , that it at last raised a curiosity in the prince himself to see and talk with him . He did so ; and , far from finding ...
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... turn either to the right or left you are in a forest , where Nature presents you with a much more beau- tiful scene than could have been raised by art . ' Instead of tulips or carnations I can shew you oaks in my gardens of four hundred ...
... turn either to the right or left you are in a forest , where Nature presents you with a much more beau- tiful scene than could have been raised by art . ' Instead of tulips or carnations I can shew you oaks in my gardens of four hundred ...
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... turn over a few of the leaves together , and oblige the public with an account of the dreams that lie under them . N ° 594. WEDNESDAY , SEPT . 15 , 1714 . Absentem qui rodit amicum , Qui non defendit , alio culpante ; solutos . Qui ...
... turn over a few of the leaves together , and oblige the public with an account of the dreams that lie under them . N ° 594. WEDNESDAY , SEPT . 15 , 1714 . Absentem qui rodit amicum , Qui non defendit , alio culpante ; solutos . Qui ...
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... turn off all such discourse if possible ; but , in case they hear any thing of this nature so well attested that they cannot disbelieve it , they are then to sup- pose that the criminal action may have proceeded from a good intention in ...
... turn off all such discourse if possible ; but , in case they hear any thing of this nature so well attested that they cannot disbelieve it , they are then to sup- pose that the criminal action may have proceeded from a good intention in ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admirer Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady Lesbia letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours nerally ness never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR sure tell temper tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told traitor's heart trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Seite 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Seite 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Seite 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Seite 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Seite 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Seite 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...