A Century of English EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1916 - 474 strán (strany) |
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A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R.L ... Ernest Rhys,Lloyd Vaughan Úplné zobrazenie - 1920 |
A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L ... Ernest Rhys Úplné zobrazenie - 1915 |
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acquaintance admiration appear beauty believe better Bo-bo body boys busy called character Cimabue conversation Country death delight Demosthenes discommendable discourse dreams Drybone eyes face fancy father feel fences of shame followed fortune Friend Sir ROGER garden Gentleman give hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Honour human Humour imagination James Miller Jeems Lady laugh learned Lebanon living look Lord Macbeth manner Maria Linley Master mind nature never night objects observed occasion once passion person play pleased pleasure poets poor present pretty Pyrrhus reason remember Rhadamanthus rich ROGER DE COVERLEY round Samuel Johnson seemed seen sense Servants side Sir Isaac Newton Sir Richard Baker soul speak spirit talk tell thee things thou thought tion told town turned walk whole woman words young youth
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Strana 11 - more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses
Strana 195 - which two I behold like a Spanish great gallion, and an English manof-war ; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and
Strana 10 - own feature, scorn her own image, and very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be
Strana 22 - and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time
Strana 11 - his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be
Strana 333 - thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long Monument, And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.
Strana 268 - in the world. He feels the truth of the lines— " The man whose eye is ever on himself, Doth look on one, the least of nature's works ; One who might move the wise man to that scorn Which wisdom holds unlawful ever "— he looks out of himself at the wide extended prospect of
Strana 11 - mirabilia. Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen) : It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a god. Vere magnum,
Strana 114 - publick or private this half Year ; and that the Parson threatens him, if he does not mend his Manners, to pray for him in the Face of the whole Congregation. Feuds of this Nature, though too frequent in the Country, are very fatal to the ordinary People ; who are so used to be