The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... beauty has inspired would of themselves be sufficient to fill a volume ; sometimes balls and serenades , sometimes tourna- ments and adventures have been employed to melt the hearts of ladies , who in another century have been sensible ...
... beauty has inspired would of themselves be sufficient to fill a volume ; sometimes balls and serenades , sometimes tourna- ments and adventures have been employed to melt the hearts of ladies , who in another century have been sensible ...
Strana 14
... beauty and her wit ; his age is that in which manhood is said to be complete , his constitution is vigorous , his per- son graceful , and his understanding strong . I found him in full health , lolling in an easy chair ; his coun ...
... beauty and her wit ; his age is that in which manhood is said to be complete , his constitution is vigorous , his per- son graceful , and his understanding strong . I found him in full health , lolling in an easy chair ; his coun ...
Strana 15
... beauty ? Curio , during the ten days that preceded my last visit , had been tormented with the toothache ; and had , within the last hour , been restored to ease by having the tooth drawn . And is human reason so impotent , and imagina ...
... beauty ? Curio , during the ten days that preceded my last visit , had been tormented with the toothache ; and had , within the last hour , been restored to ease by having the tooth drawn . And is human reason so impotent , and imagina ...
Strana 17
... beauty , because the gathering wood was the occu- pation to which Caliban was subjected by Pros- pero , who , therefore , deemed it a service of high importance . The gross ignorance of this monster is represented with delicate judgment ...
... beauty , because the gathering wood was the occu- pation to which Caliban was subjected by Pros- pero , who , therefore , deemed it a service of high importance . The gross ignorance of this monster is represented with delicate judgment ...
Strana 18
... all , be sure to secure the daughter ; whose beauty , " he tells them , " is incomparable . ' The charms of Miranda could not be more exalted than by extorting this testimony from so insensible a monster 18 97 . ADVENTURER .
... all , be sure to secure the daughter ; whose beauty , " he tells them , " is incomparable . ' The charms of Miranda could not be more exalted than by extorting this testimony from so insensible a monster 18 97 . ADVENTURER .
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance beauty Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt courage danger daughter Dean Swift Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoy enjoyment equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gratify happiness Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope Hope and Fear hour idleness imagination increase insensibility JOHN HAWKESWORTH Johnson kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetually pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion Soliman solitude sometimes soon Story suffered Sycorax tenderness thee thou thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue Warton wish wretched writer Xerxes
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Strana 109 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Strana 111 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Strana 151 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Strana 152 - No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Strana 107 - Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Strana 93 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Strana 149 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Strana 112 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; — [To Edgar. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.