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... species , whose ❝vices are almost a reproach to the wisdom of the divine " Creator ! Were men entirely free from vice , all would " be uniformity , harmony , and order . A world of moral " rectitude should be the result of a perfectly ...
... species , whose ❝vices are almost a reproach to the wisdom of the divine " Creator ! Were men entirely free from vice , all would " be uniformity , harmony , and order . A world of moral " rectitude should be the result of a perfectly ...
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... species , who with equal terror and haste attempted to avoid them . " This , " cried Asem to his guide , " is truly surprising ; 66 nor can I conceive the reason for so strange an action . " " Every species of animals , ” replied the ...
... species , who with equal terror and haste attempted to avoid them . " This , " cried Asem to his guide , " is truly surprising ; 66 nor can I conceive the reason for so strange an action . " " Every species of animals , ” replied the ...
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... species of pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience ! This seeming insensibility is not owing to any original defect . Nature has stretched the string , though it has long ceased to ...
... species of pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience ! This seeming insensibility is not owing to any original defect . Nature has stretched the string , though it has long ceased to ...
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... species will go hand in hand with the advances of morality , and the under- standing be gradually extended . Virtue and sentiment reciprocally assist each other , and both conduce to the improvement of perception . While the scholar's ...
... species will go hand in hand with the advances of morality , and the under- standing be gradually extended . Virtue and sentiment reciprocally assist each other , and both conduce to the improvement of perception . While the scholar's ...
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... species of it , which owed its rise to inspiration and enthusiasm , and properly be- longed to the culture of religion . In the first ages of mankind , and even in the original state of Nature , the unlettered mind must have been struck ...
... species of it , which owed its rise to inspiration and enthusiasm , and properly be- longed to the culture of religion . In the first ages of mankind , and even in the original state of Nature , the unlettered mind must have been struck ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquainted admiration Æneid amusement ancient antistrophe appear Aristophanes Asem audience beauty Broom of Cowdenknows Cæsar called celebrated character Cicero Comedy cried Asem dactyl David Rizzio death devil Diphilus distress drink endeavour England English entertainment ESSAY excellence exhibited expression eyes Falstaff fancy feet follies fond fortune friends Genius gentleman give Greek Handel happiness heard heart Homer honour Horace human idea Iliad imitation improved instance kind labour lady language live lively colours mankind manner merry metaphors mind modern nation Nature never observed original outrageous fortune passions perceive Pergolese piece Pindar Poet Poetry propriety quæ Quintilian resemblance ridicule says scene seems sense sentiments short siculis simile society song sound species spirit spondees sublime sung sure taste tavern Thespis thought tion Tragedy trochee ture verse versification vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom word young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 117 - And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Página 117 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Página 94 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 124 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 151 - In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of their tin money on the stage; and though they want humour, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts...
Página 134 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Página 153 - ... into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of scenes, make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling of tender melancholy conversation through the whole, and there is no doubt but all the ladies will cry, and all the gentlemen applaud.
Página 152 - ... have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught not only to pardon, but to applaud them in consideration of the goodness of their hearts ; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions, without the power of being truly pathetic.
Página 109 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare That glows within my ravish'd heart? But Thou canst read it there. Thy Providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redrest; When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.
Página 108 - He spake; and, to confirm his words, out-flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell.