Select British Classics, Volym 37J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... authors proceed in this affair just as a dauber I have heard of , who , not being able to draw portraits after the life , was used to paint faces at random , and look out afterwards for people whom he might persuade to be 24 THE GUARDIAN .
... authors proceed in this affair just as a dauber I have heard of , who , not being able to draw portraits after the life , was used to paint faces at random , and look out afterwards for people whom he might persuade to be 24 THE GUARDIAN .
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... look upon these pasteboard edifices , adorned with the fragments of the ingenious , with the same veneration as antiquaries upon ruined buildings , whose walls pre- serve divers inscriptions and names , which are no where else to be ...
... look upon these pasteboard edifices , adorned with the fragments of the ingenious , with the same veneration as antiquaries upon ruined buildings , whose walls pre- serve divers inscriptions and names , which are no where else to be ...
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... look in my face : but my business at present was to make my court to the mother ; therefore , without regarding the resentment in the looks of the children , Madam , said I , there is a petulant and hasty manner practised in this age ...
... look in my face : but my business at present was to make my court to the mother ; therefore , without regarding the resentment in the looks of the children , Madam , said I , there is a petulant and hasty manner practised in this age ...
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... look . The indiscretion of believing that great qualities make up for the want of things less considerable , is punished too severely in those who are guilty of it . Every day's experience shews us , among variety of people with whom we ...
... look . The indiscretion of believing that great qualities make up for the want of things less considerable , is punished too severely in those who are guilty of it . Every day's experience shews us , among variety of people with whom we ...
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... look into the nature of dress ; and am what they call an Acade- mical beau . I have often lamented that I am obliged to wear a grave habit , since by that means I have not an opportunity to introduce fashions amongst our young gentlemen ...
... look into the nature of dress ; and am what they call an Acade- mical beau . I have often lamented that I am obliged to wear a grave habit , since by that means I have not an opportunity to introduce fashions amongst our young gentlemen ...
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Sida 181 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Sida 259 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Sida 163 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Sida 300 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Sida 198 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Sida 277 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few ., Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Sida 107 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Sida 398 - To Make an Episode. — Take any remaining adventure of your former collection, in which you could no way involve your hero; or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away; and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work, without the least damage to the composition.
Sida 213 - 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.
Sida 164 - Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song : Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage. Such plays alone should please a British ear, As Cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. ' Britons attend .-] Altered thus by the author, from " Britons arise," to humour, we are told, the timid delicacy of Mr.