Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Τόμος 41812 |
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Σελίδα 16
... heart . The wild exploits of those romantic knights who sallied forth in quest of adventures , are well known , and have been treated with proper ridicule . The humanity which accompanies all the operations of war , the refine- ments of ...
... heart . The wild exploits of those romantic knights who sallied forth in quest of adventures , are well known , and have been treated with proper ridicule . The humanity which accompanies all the operations of war , the refine- ments of ...
Σελίδα 60
... hearts of all at first sight . These qualities gained him esteem and affection , which stood him in great stead in several circumstances of his life . For some time he was exceedingly liberal : but at length he grew covetous , not so ...
... hearts of all at first sight . These qualities gained him esteem and affection , which stood him in great stead in several circumstances of his life . For some time he was exceedingly liberal : but at length he grew covetous , not so ...
Σελίδα 63
... heart ; he pos- sessed insinuation and address , but never employed these talents except some great point of interest was to be gained ; and while he neglected to con- ciliate the affections of his people , he often felt the danger of ...
... heart ; he pos- sessed insinuation and address , but never employed these talents except some great point of interest was to be gained ; and while he neglected to con- ciliate the affections of his people , he often felt the danger of ...
Σελίδα 65
... heart , but seem to have taken their rise from the same source with many of his virtues . His mind , forcible and vehement in all its operations , roused by great objects , or agitated by violent passions , broke out , on many occasions ...
... heart , but seem to have taken their rise from the same source with many of his virtues . His mind , forcible and vehement in all its operations , roused by great objects , or agitated by violent passions , broke out , on many occasions ...
Σελίδα 80
... heart , replete with this love of literature and serious studies , and with tenderness towards her husband , who was deserving of her affection , had never opened itself to the flattering 6 allurements of ambition ; and the information ...
... heart , replete with this love of literature and serious studies , and with tenderness towards her husband , who was deserving of her affection , had never opened itself to the flattering 6 allurements of ambition ; and the information ...
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Σελίδα 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Σελίδα 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Σελίδα 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Σελίδα 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Σελίδα 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Σελίδα 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Σελίδα 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Σελίδα 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Σελίδα 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Σελίδα 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.