The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 19-20 |
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الصفحة xv
... passions were to be affected , were his province ; not works of dry , cold , accurate narrative . However , he executed his task , and is said to have received for it the enormous sum of 6,000l . He died in 1773 : some say of high ...
... passions were to be affected , were his province ; not works of dry , cold , accurate narrative . However , he executed his task , and is said to have received for it the enormous sum of 6,000l . He died in 1773 : some say of high ...
الصفحة xxix
... passions to hold too strong a dominion over him ; and it must be confessed , a too keen sensibility seemed to him , as indeed it ever is to all who possess it , a pleas- * Adventurer , concluding paragraph of the last paper , which has ...
... passions to hold too strong a dominion over him ; and it must be confessed , a too keen sensibility seemed to him , as indeed it ever is to all who possess it , a pleas- * Adventurer , concluding paragraph of the last paper , which has ...
الصفحة xxx
... passion , as were too much for his delicate constitution to bear , without feeling the effects of them . Yet with all these quick sensations , he was incapable of lasting resentment or revenge ; and had he never found an enemy till he ...
... passion , as were too much for his delicate constitution to bear , without feeling the effects of them . Yet with all these quick sensations , he was incapable of lasting resentment or revenge ; and had he never found an enemy till he ...
الصفحة xxxi
... passions . That of Agamus cannot be read without exciting a powerful interest . It is to be feared it turns upon an incident more common than is generally suspected among those who extend their licentious indulgences to a late period of ...
... passions . That of Agamus cannot be read without exciting a powerful interest . It is to be feared it turns upon an incident more common than is generally suspected among those who extend their licentious indulgences to a late period of ...
الصفحة 18
... passions . History is a relation of the most natural and im- portant events ; history , therefore , gratifies curiosity , but it does not often excite either terror or pity : the mind feels not that tenderness for a falling state ...
... passions . History is a relation of the most natural and im- portant events ; history , therefore , gratifies curiosity , but it does not often excite either terror or pity : the mind feels not that tenderness for a falling state ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acquainted advantage Adventurer Æsop Alibeg Amurath appear astonishment Azail bagnio Bagshot Bathurst beauty caliph cerned character contempt curiosity daugh death delight desire disappointed discovered distress dreadful effect endeavoured enjoyment entertainment equally evil expected eyes fable father favour fear felicity folly fore gentleman gratify greater happiness hast Hawkesworth heard honour hope human husband imagination immediately indulged Joseph Warton judgement kind labour lady less lived mankind MARCH 27 marriage Melissa ment mind misery moral morning nature never night object OPSINOUS OVID pain pantomime paper passions perceived perpetual person Phidyle pity pleasure precept present produced prostitution punishment racter reason received regard regret religion remembered rendered restrained risum scarce seraglio servant sion Sir John Hawkins soon story suffered thee thou thought tion told truth TUESDAY vanity venison vice VIRG virtue WARTON wife wish wretched young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 61 - Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
الصفحة 24 - 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.
الصفحة 23 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
الصفحة 27 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
الصفحة 61 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
الصفحة 61 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
الصفحة 97 - 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 hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 51 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
الصفحة 96 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape.
الصفحة 61 - Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.