The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 17-18 |
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الصفحة vi
... Lady's Impatience of Con- trol ...... ........ 85. The Mischiefs of total Idleness 86. The Danger of succeeding a great Au- thor : an Introduction to a Criti- cism on Milton's Versification ...... 87. The Reasons why Advice is generally ...
... Lady's Impatience of Con- trol ...... ........ 85. The Mischiefs of total Idleness 86. The Danger of succeeding a great Au- thor : an Introduction to a Criti- cism on Milton's Versification ...... 87. The Reasons why Advice is generally ...
الصفحة vii
... Ladies . MR . RICHARDSON 98. The Necessity of cultivating Polite- ness 99. The Pleasures of private Friend- ship - the Necessity of similar Dis- positions 100. Modish Pleasures .... JOHNSON ..MRS . CARTER 101. A proper Audience ...
... Ladies . MR . RICHARDSON 98. The Necessity of cultivating Polite- ness 99. The Pleasures of private Friend- ship - the Necessity of similar Dis- positions 100. Modish Pleasures .... JOHNSON ..MRS . CARTER 101. A proper Audience ...
الصفحة viii
... Ladies ' Misery in a Summer Re- tirement .... 125. The Difficulty of defining Comedy- Tragic and Comic Sentiments ... Lady 129. The Folly of Cowardice and Inacti- vity 130. The History of a Beauty .... 131. Desire of Gain , the general ...
... Ladies ' Misery in a Summer Re- tirement .... 125. The Difficulty of defining Comedy- Tragic and Comic Sentiments ... Lady 129. The Folly of Cowardice and Inacti- vity 130. The History of a Beauty .... 131. Desire of Gain , the general ...
الصفحة 4
... ladies , he tells them of the innumerable pleasures to which he can introduce them ; but never fails to hint , how much they will be deficient , at their first arrival , in the knowledge of the town 4 NO . 61 . RAMBLER .
... ladies , he tells them of the innumerable pleasures to which he can introduce them ; but never fails to hint , how much they will be deficient , at their first arrival , in the knowledge of the town 4 NO . 61 . RAMBLER .
الصفحة 8
... his pursuit , and , to repair the consequences of expensive attendance and negligence of his affairs , married a lady much older than himself , who had lived in the fashionable world till she was considered as 8 NO . 62 . RAMBLER .
... his pursuit , and , to repair the consequences of expensive attendance and negligence of his affairs , married a lady much older than himself , who had lived in the fashionable world till she was considered as 8 NO . 62 . RAMBLER .
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
مقاطع مشهورة
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...