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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... taste and passion , A complaint of the decay of beggars in the metropolis , On simplicity and refinement in writing , 225 A dissertation upon roast pig , PAGE New Year's Eve , A Quakers ' meeting , ✓ Imperfect sympathies , Modern ...
... taste and passion , A complaint of the decay of beggars in the metropolis , On simplicity and refinement in writing , 225 A dissertation upon roast pig , PAGE New Year's Eve , A Quakers ' meeting , ✓ Imperfect sympathies , Modern ...
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... taste Gower , or Chaucer at first , lest falling too much in love with anti- quity , and not apprehending the weight , they grow rough and barren in language only . When their judgments are firm , and out of danger , let them read both ...
... taste Gower , or Chaucer at first , lest falling too much in love with anti- quity , and not apprehending the weight , they grow rough and barren in language only . When their judgments are firm , and out of danger , let them read both ...
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... taste : so many things are offensive to us , not of themselves , but out of our corrupt judgment , jealousy , sus- Yea , but thou infer again , facile consilium damus aliis , we can easily give counsel to others ; every man , as the ...
... taste : so many things are offensive to us , not of themselves , but out of our corrupt judgment , jealousy , sus- Yea , but thou infer again , facile consilium damus aliis , we can easily give counsel to others ; every man , as the ...
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... Taste it first as a potion for physic , and by degrees thou shalt drink it as beer for thirst : practice will make it pleasant . Mathematics are also good for this purpose . If beginning to try a conclusion , thou must make an end ...
... Taste it first as a potion for physic , and by degrees thou shalt drink it as beer for thirst : practice will make it pleasant . Mathematics are also good for this purpose . If beginning to try a conclusion , thou must make an end ...
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... taste , that they can never after relish any solid and whole- some writers ; secondly , they cast dirt on the faces of many innocent persons , which dried on by continuance of time can never after be washed off ; thirdly , the pamphlets ...
... taste , that they can never after relish any solid and whole- some writers ; secondly , they cast dirt on the faces of many innocent persons , which dried on by continuance of time can never after be washed off ; thirdly , the pamphlets ...
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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