The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 31-32 |
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... superior acuteness and penetration , far from enabling her to fix upon a cer- tain , steady , uniform line of conduct , frequently pro- duce only doubt , uncertainty , and hesitation . To which ever side she turns , she sees ...
... superior acuteness and penetration , far from enabling her to fix upon a cer- tain , steady , uniform line of conduct , frequently pro- duce only doubt , uncertainty , and hesitation . To which ever side she turns , she sees ...
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... thankful , for a very humble station ; and have lived these many years as the attendant of a lady , who is indeed of the same blood with myself , but whom I now must needs call my superior . It is with her , as a NO . 55 . 23 LOUNGER .
... thankful , for a very humble station ; and have lived these many years as the attendant of a lady , who is indeed of the same blood with myself , but whom I now must needs call my superior . It is with her , as a NO . 55 . 23 LOUNGER .
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. my superior . It is with her , as a striking example of the self - deception mentioned that I mean to bring you and your readers acquainted ; in hope , no doubt , at the same time to meet with some ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. my superior . It is with her , as a striking example of the self - deception mentioned that I mean to bring you and your readers acquainted ; in hope , no doubt , at the same time to meet with some ...
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... superior tenderness , on the ground of feel- ing more than common for herself . I remain , Sir , with all respect , " Yours , & c . 66 HANNAH WAITFORT . " I have taken the first opportunity of publishing Mrs. Waitfort's letter , as I ...
... superior tenderness , on the ground of feel- ing more than common for herself . I remain , Sir , with all respect , " Yours , & c . 66 HANNAH WAITFORT . " I have taken the first opportunity of publishing Mrs. Waitfort's letter , as I ...
الصفحة 29
... superior region , undisturbed by the emotions of ordinary life . Something too might be claimed by beauty , to which coldness or indifference is perhaps a safe , and has long been an acknowledged , attend- ant . All things considered ...
... superior region , undisturbed by the emotions of ordinary life . Something too might be claimed by beauty , to which coldness or indifference is perhaps a safe , and has long been an acknowledged , attend- ant . All things considered ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acquaintance acquired affection allowed amusement ancient Greece attention beauty Ben Jonson bestow bustle Calliope character circumstances companion daughters degree Delaserre dinner disposition distress dress Emilia enjoyment Epimenides Eudocius Eupolis excellent Falstaff fancy fashion father favour favourite feelings flattered fortune frequently gave genius gentleman give happy heard Hermippus honour humour husband indulgence knowledge Ladyship late learned less letter look LOUNGER Macbeth Magnetic Lady manner marriage melancholy ment Metapontum mind misanthropy mother nature never NUMBER observed passion perceived perfect perhaps person phaëton philosopher Pisistratus pleasure Plutarch poet Porphyry possessed present Pythagoras racter ridicule SATURDAY Scotland seems sensibility sentiment Shakspeare silence situation society sometimes sort spirits superior Symposius talk taste tell tenderness thing thought tion told town turally uncon vanity virtue walk wife Wilfull Wilfull's wish XXXI
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الصفحة 262 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
الصفحة 143 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
الصفحة 146 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
الصفحة 263 - Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date ; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN.
الصفحة 100 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greatness, unaffected wisdom, And sanctity of manners.
الصفحة 103 - Though I will not go so far as a paradoxical critic has done, and ascribe valour to Falstaff ; yet, if his cowardice is fairly examined, it will be' found to be not so much a weakness as a principle. In his very cowardice there is much of the sagacity I have remarked in him; he has the sense of danger, but not the discomposure of fear.
الصفحة 240 - But see the fading many-coloured woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round Imbrown, a crowded umbrage, dusk, and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green To sooty dark.
الصفحة 282 - From this tyranny, as youth conceives it, of attention and of labor, relief is commonly sought from some favorite avocation or amusement, for which a young man either finds or steals a portion of his time, either patiently plods through his task, in expectation of its approach, or anticipates its arrival by deserting his work before the legal period for amusement is arrived. It may fairly be questioned, whether the most innocent of those amusements, is either so honorable or so safe as the avocation...
الصفحة 281 - The abstraction of learning, the speculations of science, and the visionary excursions of fancy are fatal, it is said, to the steady pursuit of common objects, to the habits of plodding in dustry, which ordinary business demands. The fineness of mind which is created or increased by the study of letters, or the admiration of the arts, is supposed to incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge, applied to a coarse and rugged material, is...
الصفحة 281 - Genius are proscribed, as leading their votaries to barren indigence and merited neglect. In doubting the truth of these assertions, I think I shall not entertain any hurtful degree of...