The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 17-18 |
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الصفحة 9
... lives to rural business and diver- sions . “ They had not much reason to regret the change of their situation ; for their vanity , which had so long been tormented by neglect and disappointment , was here gratified with every honour ...
... lives to rural business and diver- sions . “ They had not much reason to regret the change of their situation ; for their vanity , which had so long been tormented by neglect and disappointment , was here gratified with every honour ...
الصفحة 10
... lives of all the last race of wits and beauties ; can enumerate , with exact chronology , the whole succession of cele- brated singers , musicians , tragedians , comedians , and harlequins ; can tell to the last twenty years all 10 NO ...
... lives of all the last race of wits and beauties ; can enumerate , with exact chronology , the whole succession of cele- brated singers , musicians , tragedians , comedians , and harlequins ; can tell to the last twenty years all 10 NO ...
الصفحة 12
... live in public , and to crowd into the winter every pleasure which money can purchase , and every honour which beauty can obtain . " But this tedious interval how shall I endure ? Cannot you alleviate the misery of delay by some ...
... live in public , and to crowd into the winter every pleasure which money can purchase , and every honour which beauty can obtain . " But this tedious interval how shall I endure ? Cannot you alleviate the misery of delay by some ...
الصفحة 16
... lives in alternate elation and sorrow , for want of that calm and immoveable acquiescence in their condition , by which men of slower under- standings are fixed for ever to a certain point , or led on in the plain beaten track , which ...
... lives in alternate elation and sorrow , for want of that calm and immoveable acquiescence in their condition , by which men of slower under- standings are fixed for ever to a certain point , or led on in the plain beaten track , which ...
الصفحة 18
... live in friendship is to have the same desires and the same aversions . WHEN Socrates was building himself a house at Athens , being asked by one that observed the little- ness of the design , why a man so eminent would not have an ...
... live in friendship is to have the same desires and the same aversions . WHEN Socrates was building himself a house at Athens , being asked by one that observed the little- ness of the design , why a man so eminent would not have an ...
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...