The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... compositions obtruded upon the world with the pomp of novelty contain only tedious repetitions of common senti- ments , or at best exhibit a transposition of known images , and give a new appearance to truth only 6 94 . ADVENTURER .
... compositions obtruded upon the world with the pomp of novelty contain only tedious repetitions of common senti- ments , or at best exhibit a transposition of known images , and give a new appearance to truth only 6 94 . ADVENTURER .
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... known time enough to increase his hope , and his being too late only a few minutes , though he had reason to believe his application had been precluded by as many days , were circumstances which imagination immediately improved to ...
... known time enough to increase his hope , and his being too late only a few minutes , though he had reason to believe his application had been precluded by as many days , were circumstances which imagination immediately improved to ...
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... known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acquisition was not increased ; nor had Providence interposed farther than to ex- clude chance from the government of the world . But Agenor did not before reflect that any ...
... known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acquisition was not increased ; nor had Providence interposed farther than to ex- clude chance from the government of the world . But Agenor did not before reflect that any ...
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... known , should be careful to express the character when he describes the appearance , and to connect it with the name by which it then happens to be called . You have frequently used the terms buck and blood , and have given some ...
... known , should be careful to express the character when he describes the appearance , and to connect it with the name by which it then happens to be called . You have frequently used the terms buck and blood , and have given some ...
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... of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the practice of these arts 38 100 . ADVENTURER .
... of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the practice of these arts 38 100 . ADVENTURER .
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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.