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Página 11
... imagination . It is not easy to give a stronger representation of the weariness of despondency , than in the words of Samson to his father : -I feel my genial spirits droop , My hopes all flat : nature within me seems In all her ...
... imagination . It is not easy to give a stronger representation of the weariness of despondency , than in the words of Samson to his father : -I feel my genial spirits droop , My hopes all flat : nature within me seems In all her ...
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... imagination was unoc- cupied , and his judgment unsettled ; and that his principles and actions have taken their colour from some secret infusion , mingled without design in the current of his ideas . The desires that predominate in our ...
... imagination was unoc- cupied , and his judgment unsettled ; and that his principles and actions have taken their colour from some secret infusion , mingled without design in the current of his ideas . The desires that predominate in our ...
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... imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged , secret history easily gains credit ; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers ; and when once it is openly told , is openly confuted . The ...
... imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged , secret history easily gains credit ; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers ; and when once it is openly told , is openly confuted . The ...
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... imagination , or the gra- dual and laborious investigations of reason . The merit of all manual occupations seems to terminate in the inventor ; and surely the first ages cannot be charged with ingratitude ; since those who civilised ...
... imagination , or the gra- dual and laborious investigations of reason . The merit of all manual occupations seems to terminate in the inventor ; and surely the first ages cannot be charged with ingratitude ; since those who civilised ...
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... imagination with any uncommon train of images or contexture of events ; the rest , however laborious , however arrogant , can only be considered as the drudges of the pen , the manufacturers of literature , who have set up for authors ...
... imagination with any uncommon train of images or contexture of events ; the rest , however laborious , however arrogant , can only be considered as the drudges of the pen , the manufacturers of literature , who have set up for authors ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Acastus acquaintance Ajut Altilia amuse ance Anningait ardour Aristotle attention beauty censure common considered contempt conversation curiosity Dagon danger delight desire dignity dili discovered easily elegance eminence endeavour envy equally excellence expected eyes fame fancy father faults favour fear felicity flattered folly force fortune frequently friends gaiety genius gratify Greenland happened happiness heard heart honour hope hour human ignorance imagination inclination indulgence inquire kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence Leviculus live mankind marriage ment merated merit mind miscarriage misery nature necessary neglect neral ness never observed obtained opinion Ovid pain panegyric panegyrist passion perpetual pleased pleasure portunity praise present produced Prospero quire racters RAMBLER reason regard resolved riches risum Samson SATURDAY scarcely Seged seldom sentiments sion solicit sometimes soon sorrow suffer superaddition thou thought Thrasybulus tion TUESDAY turally vanity virtue wealth writer
Passagens conhecidas
Página 12 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Página 152 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 12 - Out, out, hyaena ! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee, To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray, Then as repentant to submit...
Página 347 - I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Página 225 - Envy is almost the only vice which is practicable at all times, and in every place ; the only passion which can never lie quiet for want of irritation : its effects therefore are every where discoverable, and its attempts always to be dreaded.
Página 10 - I not sung and proverbed for a fool In every street? Do they not say, How well Are come upon him his deserts?
Página 233 - Whoever considers the weakness both of himself and others, will not long want persuasives to forgiveness. We know not to what degree of malignity any injury is to be imputed ; or how much its guilt, if we were to inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence...
Página 111 - But the truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself.
Página 340 - ... yet the toil with which performance struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual resuscitation of desires which he feels himself unable to gratify.
Página 96 - Probability requires that the time of action should approach somewhat nearly to that of exhibition, and those plays will always be thought most happily conducted which crowd the greatest variety into the least space. But since it will frequently happen that some delusion must be admitted, I know not where the limits of imagination can be fixed.