The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, المجلد 5C. Dilly, 1790 |
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الصفحة 22
... also with delight : " So foon ! " was her only reply , when he announced his immediate depar- ture , but those words were uttered with such a ca- dence and accompanied by fuch a look , as to the eye and ear of love conveyed more meaning ...
... also with delight : " So foon ! " was her only reply , when he announced his immediate depar- ture , but those words were uttered with such a ca- dence and accompanied by fuch a look , as to the eye and ear of love conveyed more meaning ...
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... also by various loffes , bad debts and incautious fecurities , which have fallen heavy upon the purfes of my predeceffors at different times ; but as every man must pay for his good character , I dare fay they did not repent of their ...
... also by various loffes , bad debts and incautious fecurities , which have fallen heavy upon the purfes of my predeceffors at different times ; but as every man must pay for his good character , I dare fay they did not repent of their ...
الصفحة 45
... also wrote occafional essays and paragraphs for the public prints , by way of try- ing my talents in various kinds of stile ; by these experiments I acquired a certain facility of imi- tating other people's manner and disguifing my own ...
... also wrote occafional essays and paragraphs for the public prints , by way of try- ing my talents in various kinds of stile ; by these experiments I acquired a certain facility of imi- tating other people's manner and disguifing my own ...
الصفحة 84
... also in certain writers a profufion of words , ramifying indeed from the fame root , yet rifing into climax by their power and importance , which feems to burst forth from the overflow and impetuofity of the imagina- tion ; resembling ...
... also in certain writers a profufion of words , ramifying indeed from the fame root , yet rifing into climax by their power and importance , which feems to burst forth from the overflow and impetuofity of the imagina- tion ; resembling ...
الصفحة 108
... also a playhouse critic of no mean pretenfions , for he remembers Mrs. Wof- fington , and Quin and Mrs. Cibber ; and when the players come to town , Billy is greatly looked up to , and has been known to lead a clap , where nobody but ...
... also a playhouse critic of no mean pretenfions , for he remembers Mrs. Wof- fington , and Quin and Mrs. Cibber ; and when the players come to town , Billy is greatly looked up to , and has been known to lead a clap , where nobody but ...
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الصفحة 82 - Let her see him injured, but not provoked: Let her attend him to the tribunal, and consider the patience with which he endured the scoffs and reproaches of his enemies. Lead her to his cross, and let her view him in the agony of death, and hear his last prayer for his persecutors...
الصفحة 82 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies; let her follow him to the Mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
الصفحة 141 - All are not just because they do no wrong, But he who will not wrong me when he may, He is the truly just.
الصفحة 188 - ... at the same time slipping his pincers from the screw he was forcing to the head, he caught a piece of flesh in the forceps and wrenched it out of his cheek, laughing at poor Nicolas, whilst he roared aloud with the pain, telling him it was a just reward for the torture he had put him to awhile ago, when he tugged at a tooth till he broke it in his jaw. ' Ah, for the love of heaven...
الصفحة 189 - ... his excellency the inquisidor general with six of his assessors, three on each side the chair of state : the alguazil mayor, a secretary and two notaries, with other officers of the holy council, were attending in their places. The prisoner was placed behind a bar at the foot of the table between the messengers who brought him in, and having made his obeisance to the awful presence in the most supplicating...
الصفحة 75 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
الصفحة 308 - ... motives for the experiment may be virtuous, but the effects of it will be fatal. I am now approaching to the conclusion of this my fourth volume,* and according to my present purpose, shall dismiss the Observers from any fur* This refers to the arrangement of the volumes when firM published.
الصفحة 266 - ... tis a volume of comedies ; he opens it at random ; 'tis all alike to him where he begins ; all our poets put together are not worth a halter; he stumbles by mere chance upon
الصفحة 82 - to your natural " religion ; lay before her Mahomet, and his difciples, arrayed "in armour and blood, riding in triumph over the fpoils of "thoufands who fell by his victorious fword. Shew her the " cities which he fet in flames, the countries which he ravaged " and deftroyed, and the miferable diftrefs of all the inhabitants " of the earth. When fhe has viewed him in this fcene, carry "her into his...
الصفحة 182 - Nicolas's conviction, as plain could be, that his road laid straight forward to the little convent in front ; the mule was of opinion, that the turning on the left down the hill towards the Prado was the road of all roads most familiar and agreeable to herself, and accordingly began to dispute the point of topography with Nicolas by fixing her...