The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Sida 54
... distress ; but to counterbalance the evils of ob- scurity , neglect , and ugliness , she decreed , that " to the taste of Shelimah the coarsest food should be the most exquisite dainty ; that the rags which co- vered her should in her ...
... distress ; but to counterbalance the evils of ob- scurity , neglect , and ugliness , she decreed , that " to the taste of Shelimah the coarsest food should be the most exquisite dainty ; that the rags which co- vered her should in her ...
Sida 56
... distress rather increased than diminished : this incident , however , as he had no suspicion of the cause , only rendered him more impatient of delay ; and Almerine , covered with ornaments by which art and nature were exhausted , was ...
... distress rather increased than diminished : this incident , however , as he had no suspicion of the cause , only rendered him more impatient of delay ; and Almerine , covered with ornaments by which art and nature were exhausted , was ...
Sida 57
... distress : this , however , was a secret , which neither her pride nor her fear would suffer her to reveal . She continued silent and inconsolable ; and Soliman , though he secretly suspected some other attachment , yet appeared to be ...
... distress : this , however , was a secret , which neither her pride nor her fear would suffer her to reveal . She continued silent and inconsolable ; and Soliman , though he secretly suspected some other attachment , yet appeared to be ...
Sida 72
... distress ; and Jack , on the contrary , admired the bravery of Tom and his crew , from whose countenances and behaviour he at length derived some hope ; he believed he had deserved the reproach which he suffered , and de- spised himself ...
... distress ; and Jack , on the contrary , admired the bravery of Tom and his crew , from whose countenances and behaviour he at length derived some hope ; he believed he had deserved the reproach which he suffered , and de- spised himself ...
Sida 77
... distress : are you married ? you are troubled with suspicions ; are you single ? you languish in solitude ; children occasion toil , and a childless life is a state of desti- tution ; the time of youth is a time of folly , and gray ...
... distress : are you married ? you are troubled with suspicions ; are you single ? you languish in solitude ; children occasion toil , and a childless life is a state of desti- tution ; the time of youth is a time of folly , and gray ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance beauty Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt courage danger daughter Dean Swift Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoy enjoyment equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gratify happiness Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope Hope and Fear hour idleness imagination increase insensibility JOHN HAWKESWORTH Johnson kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetually pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion Soliman solitude sometimes soon Story suffered Sycorax tenderness thee thou thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue Warton wish wretched writer Xerxes
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Sida 109 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Sida 111 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Sida 151 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Sida 152 - No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Sida 107 - Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Sida 93 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Sida 149 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Sida 112 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; — [To Edgar. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.