Select British Classics, Zväzok 3J. Conrad, 1804 |
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Strana 24
... reason . But to confess a truth , I do not find they have a great- er aversion to fine clothes than the women of any other country whatsoever . I cannot fancy that a shop- keeper's wife in Cheapside has a greater tenderness for the ...
... reason . But to confess a truth , I do not find they have a great- er aversion to fine clothes than the women of any other country whatsoever . I cannot fancy that a shop- keeper's wife in Cheapside has a greater tenderness for the ...
Strana 32
... reason . He contented himself with replying , that he thanked her , he was not hungry . They thought he was taken ill , and so repeated their solicitations . But all was in vain , though the poor child was 32 32 ESSAYS .
... reason . He contented himself with replying , that he thanked her , he was not hungry . They thought he was taken ill , and so repeated their solicitations . But all was in vain , though the poor child was 32 32 ESSAYS .
Strana 39
... reason or resolution to oppose it : by the first method we forget our mise- ries , by the last we only conceal them from others ; by struggling with misfortunes , we are sure to receive some wounds in the conflict . The only method to ...
... reason or resolution to oppose it : by the first method we forget our mise- ries , by the last we only conceal them from others ; by struggling with misfortunes , we are sure to receive some wounds in the conflict . The only method to ...
Strana 42
... reason , that he who best knows how to conceal his necessity and de- sires , is the most likely person to find redress , and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them . When we reflect on the ...
... reason , that he who best knows how to conceal his necessity and de- sires , is the most likely person to find redress , and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them . When we reflect on the ...
Strana 53
... reason upon justice and generosity . The first is despised , though a virtue essential to the good of society ; and the other attracts our esteem , which too frequently proceeds from an im- petuosity of temper , rather directed by ...
... reason upon justice and generosity . The first is despised , though a virtue essential to the good of society ; and the other attracts our esteem , which too frequently proceeds from an im- petuosity of temper , rather directed by ...
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acquaintance admiration Alcander amusement appearance assured attempt attended beauty Bidderman character Charles II coachman continue creature custom dæmon diction distress dress effeminacy eloquence endeavour enemy English English language entertainment esteem expect eyes fame fancied favour feel figure fortune friends friendship frugality generosity genius gentleman give glory hand happy humour Hypasia imagination imitate Italy justice king king of Prussia labour lady language laugh laws learning Lysippus mankind manner master Maupertuis merit Metastasio mind miser Montesquieu nature nerally never nosegay obliged observed occasion Olinda once orator passion perceived perhaps perly philosopher pleased pleasure poet polite poor portunity possessed praise present pride racter regard replied republic of letters reputation ridicule Sabinus Saracens seems seldom Septimius society speak spider style Sweden taste thing thought tion truth virtue Voltaire vulgar whole writer
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Strana 70 - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Strana 71 - ... to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance might give the captive strength sufficient to get loose : the manner then is to wait patiently till, by ineffectual and impotent struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then...
Strana 76 - What a gloom hangs all around ! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. " There will come a time, when this temporary solitude may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room.
Strana 69 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was, with incredible diligence, completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Strana 70 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb.
Strana 71 - I once put a wasp into the net; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Strana 42 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Strana 78 - Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Strana 72 - The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Strana 76 - To the same. 5HE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy, are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person.