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... kind ; though they have not , perhaps , expected events equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ...
... kind ; though they have not , perhaps , expected events equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ...
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... kind . I have heard how some have been paci- fied with claret and a supper , and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me suf- ficient reason to dread the united attacks of this ...
... kind . I have heard how some have been paci- fied with claret and a supper , and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me suf- ficient reason to dread the united attacks of this ...
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... kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance , and is to be conducted nearly by the rules of comic poetry . Its province is to bring about natural events by easy means , and to keep up cu- riosity without the help ...
... kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance , and is to be conducted nearly by the rules of comic poetry . Its province is to bring about natural events by easy means , and to keep up cu- riosity without the help ...
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... kind ,. though not the same degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to secure them from unjust prejudices , perverse opinions , and incon- gruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly ...
... kind ,. though not the same degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to secure them from unjust prejudices , perverse opinions , and incon- gruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly ...
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... kind , supposes man to act from a brute impulse , and pursue a certain degree of inclina- tion , without any choice of the object ; for , otherwise , though it should be allowed that gratitude and resent- ment arise from the same ...
... kind , supposes man to act from a brute impulse , and pursue a certain degree of inclina- tion , without any choice of the object ; for , otherwise , though it should be allowed that gratitude and resent- ment arise from the same ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance ambition amusements Anthea appearance AUGUST 25 beauty calamity censure Cleobulus common consider contempt danger daugh delighted desire discover easily ELPHINSTON endeavor envy Epictetus equally error evil expected eyes fame favor fear folly fortune frequently gain genius give happen happiness heart hinder honor hope hopes and fears human imagination incited inclined indulge innu inquiries Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind knowledge labor ladies Learning lence less lest live mankind marriage means Melanthia ment mind miscarriages misery nature nerally ness never numbers objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passed passions pastoral perhaps pleased pleasure portunity praise precept produce Prudentius racter RAMBLER reason regard reproach reputation rest riches rience SATURDAY seldom SEPTEMBER 25 soon sophism sorrow suffer tenderness thing thou thought Timocreon tion TUESDAY vanity Virgil virtue wish write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 43 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 362 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. "He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he...
Página 243 - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick -axe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
Página 331 - FRANCIS. -i\LL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Página 17 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Página 336 - If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth.
Página 332 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Página 19 - But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part.
Página 334 - Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion. Thus the story of Melancthon affords a striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us that, when he made an appointment, he expected not only the hour but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspense...
Página 89 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.