The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 17-18 |
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الصفحة 30
... feels his own miseries without know- ing that they are common to all the rest of the species ; and , therefore , though he will not be less sensible of pain by being told that others are equally tormented , he will at least be freed ...
... feels his own miseries without know- ing that they are common to all the rest of the species ; and , therefore , though he will not be less sensible of pain by being told that others are equally tormented , he will at least be freed ...
الصفحة 34
... feels to deceive himself , and considering the advantages and dangers proceeding from this gay prospect of futurity , when , falling asleep , on a sud- den I found myself placed in a garden , of which my sight could descry no limits ...
... feels to deceive himself , and considering the advantages and dangers proceeding from this gay prospect of futurity , when , falling asleep , on a sud- den I found myself placed in a garden , of which my sight could descry no limits ...
الصفحة 39
... feels innumerable throbs , which never break into complaint . Perhaps , likewise , our pleasures are for the most part equally secret , and most are borne up by some private satisfaction , some internal con- sciousness , some latent ...
... feels innumerable throbs , which never break into complaint . Perhaps , likewise , our pleasures are for the most part equally secret , and most are borne up by some private satisfaction , some internal con- sciousness , some latent ...
الصفحة 40
... feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances , and to lose all effect when they become familiar . To be happy at home is the ultimate re- sult of all ambition , the end to which every enter- prise and labour tends , and of which every ...
... feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances , and to lose all effect when they become familiar . To be happy at home is the ultimate re- sult of all ambition , the end to which every enter- prise and labour tends , and of which every ...
الصفحة 42
... feel , that the testimony of a menial domestic can seldom be considered as defective for want of knowledge . And though its impartiality may be sometimes suspected , it is at least as credible as that of equals , where rivalry ...
... feel , that the testimony of a menial domestic can seldom be considered as defective for want of knowledge . And though its impartiality may be sometimes suspected , it is at least as credible as that of equals , where rivalry ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty celebrated censure common considered contempt curiosity Dagon danger delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discovered DRYDEN easily elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes fancy father favour fear flattered folly fortune frequently genius gratify happiness heart hexameter honour hope hour human idleness imagination inclined inquiry JANUARY 26 judgement Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less live look mankind ment Milton mind miscarriage misery nature necessary neglect nerally ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions pauses perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets portunity praise precepts produce quired racters RAMBLER reason regard reproach rest risum Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sound spect suffer surely suspiria syllables thing thou thought tion tivate truth TUESDAY tural vanity verse VIRG Virgil virtue wisdom writer
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الصفحة 167 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
الصفحة 33 - O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
الصفحة 192 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
الصفحة 252 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
الصفحة 106 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
الصفحة 145 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
الصفحة 248 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
الصفحة 136 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But...
الصفحة 145 - Mosaic ; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature here, Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter none, Such was their awe of man.
الصفحة 26 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...