Select Essays, Volym 2Dent, 1889 |
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... feel for the wild and unsocial inhabitants of the air and water . We naturally endear to ourselves those to whom we impart any kind of pleasure , because we imagine their affection and esteem secured to us by the benefits which they ...
... feel for the wild and unsocial inhabitants of the air and water . We naturally endear to ourselves those to whom we impart any kind of pleasure , because we imagine their affection and esteem secured to us by the benefits which they ...
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... feel from the spectators , will , at the hour of need , be mocked by his resolution ; and I doubt whether the preservatives which Plato relates Alcibiades to have received from Socrates , when he was about to speak in public , proved ...
... feel from the spectators , will , at the hour of need , be mocked by his resolution ; and I doubt whether the preservatives which Plato relates Alcibiades to have received from Socrates , when he was about to speak in public , proved ...
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... feel our affections divided in different proportions without much regard to moral or intellectual merit . Every man knows some whom he cannot induce himself to trust , though he has no reason to suspect that they would betray him ...
... feel our affections divided in different proportions without much regard to moral or intellectual merit . Every man knows some whom he cannot induce himself to trust , though he has no reason to suspect that they would betray him ...
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... feel ; pleasures which he cannot partake ; and modes of express- ing every sensation which he cannot understand . That frolic which shakes one man with laughter , will convulse another with indignation ; the strain of jocularity which ...
... feel ; pleasures which he cannot partake ; and modes of express- ing every sensation which he cannot understand . That frolic which shakes one man with laughter , will convulse another with indignation ; the strain of jocularity which ...
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... feel in our own favour , that they have reached the summit of excellence , because they discover none higher than them- selves ; and who acquiesce in the first thoughts that occur , because their scantiness of knowledge allows them ...
... feel in our own favour , that they have reached the summit of excellence , because they discover none higher than them- selves ; and who acquiesce in the first thoughts that occur , because their scantiness of knowledge allows them ...
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amuse ardour attention Bodleian Library Boswell Boswell's Johnson catenis Catiline censure common commonly consider contempt criticism danger David Fabricius death delight desire dignity diligence discovered Dunciad easily elegance endeavour enemies envy equally Essay Essay on Criticism Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes fancy favour fear felicity folly fortune Garrick genius give gratify happiness heart honour hope Horace Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination indulge John Le Clerc justly kind knowledge labour learning less live Lord Camden mankind memory ment mind misery nature neglect ness never NOVEMBER 17 observed opinion pain Paradise Lost passed passions perhaps pleasure poet Pope poverty praise present pride Rambler reason remember reputation Satires xiv SATURDAY says scarcely scrupulosity seldom sometimes sorrow Statius suffer talk tell things thought tion Trained Bands truth vanity virtue wisdom wish writing
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Sida 75 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Sida 101 - The March begins in Military State, And Nations on his Eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary Coast, And Winter barricades the Realms of Frost ; He comes, nor Want nor Cold his Course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Sida 107 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Sida 82 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas...
Sida 67 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great...
Sida 223 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
Sida 110 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Sida 128 - I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been most current, for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
Sida 178 - The sun grew low, and left the skies, Put down (some write) by ladies eyes ; The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight, (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade) And in the lanthorn of the night, With shining horns hung out her light : For darkness is the proper sphere Where all false glories use t
Sida 193 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in Religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power; and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the Greatest POWER is the BEST.