The bee. Essays. An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsJohn Murray, 1837 |
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... speak to them in the tones of anger , and sometimes it was even necessary to use blows , to excite them to their duty . How different these from the common people of England , whom a blow might induce to return the affront sevenfold ...
... speak to them in the tones of anger , and sometimes it was even necessary to use blows , to excite them to their duty . How different these from the common people of England , whom a blow might induce to return the affront sevenfold ...
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... speak without metaphor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty . Our ladies , on the contrary , seem to have no other standard for grace but the run of the town . If fashion gives ...
... speak without metaphor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty . Our ladies , on the contrary , seem to have no other standard for grace but the run of the town . If fashion gives ...
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... speak my mind , cousin Jeffery , I never liked tails ; for suppose a young fellow should be rude , and the lady should offer to step back in a fright , instead of retiring she treads upon her train , and falls fairly on her back ; and ...
... speak my mind , cousin Jeffery , I never liked tails ; for suppose a young fellow should be rude , and the lady should offer to step back in a fright , instead of retiring she treads upon her train , and falls fairly on her back ; and ...
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... speak of her beauty , her knowledge , and her virtue . Nay , so much harmony reigns in their accounts of this prodigy of perfection , that , in spite of the opposition of their faith , we should never have been able to judge of what ...
... speak of her beauty , her knowledge , and her virtue . Nay , so much harmony reigns in their accounts of this prodigy of perfection , that , in spite of the opposition of their faith , we should never have been able to judge of what ...
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... speaking , is the only virtue , and all the rest have their origin in it . The qualities of candour , fortitude , charity , and gene- rosity , for instance , are not , in their own nature , virtues ; and , if ever they deserve the title ...
... speaking , is the only virtue , and all the rest have their origin in it . The qualities of candour , fortitude , charity , and gene- rosity , for instance , are not , in their own nature , virtues ; and , if ever they deserve the title ...
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Sida iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Sida 296 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Sida 317 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Sida 525 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Sida 274 - Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum, 220 Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit, et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit : eo quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator functusque sacris et potus et exlex.
Sida 303 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Sida 424 - The author, when unpatronked by the great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much, as possible.
Sida 270 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Sida 424 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Sida 69 - ... becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days.