Select Essays, المجلد 2Dent, 1889 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 30
الصفحة 14
... present pain , for the sake of obviating evil yet unfelt , or securing advantage in time to come . What is distant is in itself obscure , and , when we have no wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as desire ...
... present pain , for the sake of obviating evil yet unfelt , or securing advantage in time to come . What is distant is in itself obscure , and , when we have no wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as desire ...
الصفحة 21
... present European tongues are nothing more than barbarous degenerations.1 Some advantage they might gain merely by priority , which put them in possession of the most natural sentiments , and left us nothing but servile repetition or ...
... present European tongues are nothing more than barbarous degenerations.1 Some advantage they might gain merely by priority , which put them in possession of the most natural sentiments , and left us nothing but servile repetition or ...
الصفحة 24
... present to his mind . Yet if he has been employed on an abstruse , or complicated argument , he will find , when he has awhile with- drawn his mind , and returns as a new reader to his work , that he has only a conjectural glimpse of ...
... present to his mind . Yet if he has been employed on an abstruse , or complicated argument , he will find , when he has awhile with- drawn his mind , and returns as a new reader to his work , that he has only a conjectural glimpse of ...
الصفحة 28
... present generation from the writings of the past , and are not very early informed of those changes which the gradual diffusion of knowledge , or the sudden caprice of fashion , produces in the world . What- ever might be the state of ...
... present generation from the writings of the past , and are not very early informed of those changes which the gradual diffusion of knowledge , or the sudden caprice of fashion , produces in the world . What- ever might be the state of ...
الصفحة 31
... present moment fills the face with blushes , and the mind with confusion , will have no other effect upon those who observe it , than that of convulsing them with irresistible laughter . Some circum- stances of misery are so powerfully ...
... present moment fills the face with blushes , and the mind with confusion , will have no other effect upon those who observe it , than that of convulsing them with irresistible laughter . Some circum- stances of misery are so powerfully ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
amuse ardour attention Bodleian Library Boswell Boswell's Johnson catenis Catiline censure common commonly consider contempt criticism danger David Fabricius death delight desire dignity diligence discovered Dunciad easily elegance endeavour enemies envy equally Essay Essay on Criticism Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes fancy favour fear felicity folly fortune Garrick genius give gratify happiness heart honour hope Horace Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination indulge John Le Clerc justly kind knowledge labour learning less live Lord Camden mankind memory ment mind misery nature neglect ness never NOVEMBER 17 observed opinion pain Paradise Lost passed passions perhaps pleasure poet Pope poverty praise present pride Rambler reason remember reputation Satires xiv SATURDAY says scarcely scrupulosity seldom sometimes sorrow Statius suffer talk tell things thought tion Trained Bands truth vanity virtue wisdom wish writing
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 75 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
الصفحة 101 - The March begins in Military State, And Nations on his Eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary Coast, And Winter barricades the Realms of Frost ; He comes, nor Want nor Cold his Course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
الصفحة 107 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
الصفحة 82 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas...
الصفحة 67 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great...
الصفحة 223 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
الصفحة 110 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
الصفحة 128 - I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been most current, for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
الصفحة 178 - The sun grew low, and left the skies, Put down (some write) by ladies eyes ; The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight, (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade) And in the lanthorn of the night, With shining horns hung out her light : For darkness is the proper sphere Where all false glories use t
الصفحة 193 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in Religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power; and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the Greatest POWER is the BEST.