The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John RuskinW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 - 536 páginas |
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... pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world ...
... pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world ...
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... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
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... pleasure in looking upon the fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy . For envy is a gadding passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep home ; " Non est curiosus , quin ...
... pleasure in looking upon the fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy . For envy is a gadding passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep home ; " Non est curiosus , quin ...
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... pleasure near great cities ; armouries , arsenals , no such things ; and in like manner , that the magazines , exchanges , burses , warehouses ; exer- schoolmen had framed a number of subtile and cises of horsemanship , fencing ...
... pleasure near great cities ; armouries , arsenals , no such things ; and in like manner , that the magazines , exchanges , burses , warehouses ; exer- schoolmen had framed a number of subtile and cises of horsemanship , fencing ...
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... pleasure in solitude , but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation : such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman ...
... pleasure in solitude , but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation : such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman ...
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admiration affection appear atheism Augustus Cæsar beauty Ben Jonson better called cern character Coleridge common creature death delight divine doth Dr Johnson dream earth England eyes fancy fear feel fortune genius give hand happy hath heart heaven honour hour human humour imagination Julius Cæsar kind king knowledge labour lady learning less live look Lord Lord Byron man's mankind manner marriage matter ment Milton mind nature ness never night object observed opinion pain Paradise Lost pass passion perhaps person Pilgrim's Progress pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry Quakers reason Roger de Coverley Scotland seems sense Shakespeare Sir Roger soul speak spirit Stesichorus taste Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion true truth Virgil virtue walk whole wise woman words write young