The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 14 |
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... notice . I have made so good a use of my time , as to procure from that intimate of hers one of her letters , which she writ to her when in the country . This epistle of her own may serve to alarm the world against her in ordinary life ...
... notice . I have made so good a use of my time , as to procure from that intimate of hers one of her letters , which she writ to her when in the country . This epistle of her own may serve to alarm the world against her in ordinary life ...
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... notices they are capable of . This is perhaps representing the life of a very modest woman , joined to a dull fellow , more insipid than it really deserves ; but I am sure it is not to exalt the commerce with an ingenious companion too ...
... notices they are capable of . This is perhaps representing the life of a very modest woman , joined to a dull fellow , more insipid than it really deserves ; but I am sure it is not to exalt the commerce with an ingenious companion too ...
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... notices which are requisite for the amendment of manners in public , and the instruction of each individual of the human species in what is due from him in respect to the whole body of man- kind . The present paper shall consist only of ...
... notices which are requisite for the amendment of manners in public , and the instruction of each individual of the human species in what is due from him in respect to the whole body of man- kind . The present paper shall consist only of ...
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... notice they take of their foot acquaintance , and send me the speediest advice , when they are guilty of overlooking , turning from , or appearing grave and distant to , their old friends . When man and wife are in the same coach , you ...
... notice they take of their foot acquaintance , and send me the speediest advice , when they are guilty of overlooking , turning from , or appearing grave and distant to , their old friends . When man and wife are in the same coach , you ...
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... notice when I went out . He is perpetually asking his wife if she does not think the time long ( as she said she should ) until she see her cousin again . Pray , sir , what can be done in this case ? I have writ to him to assure him I ...
... notice when I went out . He is perpetually asking his wife if she does not think the time long ( as she said she should ) until she see her cousin again . Pray , sir , what can be done in this case ? I have writ to him to assure him I ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquainted admirer Anacreon animals appear beautiful black tower Blank body Britomartis character Cicero cities of London city of Westminster club consider conversation creatures CREECH death desire discourse divine drachmas endeavour entertain epigram excellent eyes fancy father favour forbear fortune Freeport gentleman give hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope human humble servant humour husband infinite JUNE 23 kind lady learned letter live look manner marriage matter mean Menander mentioned mind nature never obliged observed occasion OVID paper particular passion person pleased pleasure poet poetical justice praise present Procris racters readers reason shoeing horn short sorrow soul speak species Spect SPECTATOR talk Tatler tell thing thou thought tion town VIRG virtue virtuous whole woman worthy writ writing young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache 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 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Página 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Página 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Página 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Página 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Página 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Página 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.