The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... passed . How providential , " said he , " was it that I did not stay to drink another dish of tea at break- fast , that I found a hackney coach at the end of the street , and that I met with no stop by the way ! " What an alteration was ...
... passed . How providential , " said he , " was it that I did not stay to drink another dish of tea at break- fast , that I found a hackney coach at the end of the street , and that I met with no stop by the way ! " What an alteration was ...
Strana 34
... passed through the whole series , I shall ex- plain each station by a short account of my life , re- marking the periods when my character changed its denomination , and the particular incidents by which the change 34 100 . ADVENTURER .
... passed through the whole series , I shall ex- plain each station by a short account of my life , re- marking the periods when my character changed its denomination , and the particular incidents by which the change 34 100 . ADVENTURER .
Strana 39
... passed my nights in a brothel , the street , or the watch - house ; was utterly insensible of shame , and lived upon the town as a beast of prey in a forest . Thus I reached the summit of modern glory , and had just acquired the ...
... passed my nights in a brothel , the street , or the watch - house ; was utterly insensible of shame , and lived upon the town as a beast of prey in a forest . Thus I reached the summit of modern glory , and had just acquired the ...
Strana 46
... passed it over , unpraised and un- noticed . " " If an apology should be deemed necessary for the freedom here used with our inimitable bard , let me conclude in the words of Longinus : Whoever was carefully to collect the blemishes of ...
... passed it over , unpraised and un- noticed . " " If an apology should be deemed necessary for the freedom here used with our inimitable bard , let me conclude in the words of Longinus : Whoever was carefully to collect the blemishes of ...
Strana 51
... passed , and in which I can , there- fore , have no interest : I am utterly unconcerned to know whether Tully or Demosthenes excelled in oratory , whether Hannibal lost Italy by his own negligence or the corruption of his countrymen . I ...
... passed , and in which I can , there- fore , have no interest : I am utterly unconcerned to know whether Tully or Demosthenes excelled in oratory , whether Hannibal lost Italy by his own negligence or the corruption of his countrymen . I ...
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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.