The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلد 16 |
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الصفحة x
... reason . And what shall be said of names intrinsically so contempti- ble as IDLER and LOUNGER ? But ་ " It were to consider too curiously to consider so . " " 9 The views of our ESSAYISTS in the choice of a name , have been either to ...
... reason . And what shall be said of names intrinsically so contempti- ble as IDLER and LOUNGER ? But ་ " It were to consider too curiously to consider so . " " 9 The views of our ESSAYISTS in the choice of a name , have been either to ...
الصفحة xiv
... reason , his name shall be concealed . " Can we suppose that this awkward compliment could be paid by a man who knew how to appreciate ADDISON's writings , and knew upon which of them his future fame was to rest ? Would STEELE have ...
... reason , his name shall be concealed . " Can we suppose that this awkward compliment could be paid by a man who knew how to appreciate ADDISON's writings , and knew upon which of them his future fame was to rest ? Would STEELE have ...
الصفحة xv
... reason is not very obvious , except that he might now be looking to higher employment , does not make his appearance until No. 67 , nor after that , except once , until No. 97 , * In the Address to Mr. CONGREVE , prefixed to ADDISON'S ...
... reason is not very obvious , except that he might now be looking to higher employment , does not make his appearance until No. 67 , nor after that , except once , until No. 97 , * In the Address to Mr. CONGREVE , prefixed to ADDISON'S ...
الصفحة xxvi
... reason does not appear , for the alteration is by no means an improvement . His paper on Pastorals , No. 40 , requires more particular notice from the singular nature of it , and the circumstances which attended it . In this he draws an ...
... reason does not appear , for the alteration is by no means an improvement . His paper on Pastorals , No. 40 , requires more particular notice from the singular nature of it , and the circumstances which attended it . In this he draws an ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... reason to be ashamed ; yet it frequently happens that men in advanced and serious life do not look upon their juvenile pro- ductions with complacency . If this apology is unsatisfactory , let it be supposed , on the other hand , that he ...
... reason to be ashamed ; yet it frequently happens that men in advanced and serious life do not look upon their juvenile pro- ductions with complacency . If this apology is unsatisfactory , let it be supposed , on the other hand , that he ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Aguire ancient appear APRIL Arbor Porphyriana beauty better called character Charwell conversation Corydon countenance daughter delight desire discourse divisions of low dress easy eclogues endeavour eyes fancy favour fortune free-thinker genius gentleman give greater GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humour Iago imagination innocence Ironside kind king labour lady Lizard laugh learning live look Lord lord Roscommon lover madam maid mankind manner Megaric merit mind mother nature neral never night observed occasion Othello paper passions pastoral pastoral poetry person Philips pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry reader reason satisfaction Scaron sense shepherds shew smile song soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE Syphax taste TATLER Theocritus thing thou thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous wherein WHIG whole woman words writing young
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الصفحة 252 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
الصفحة 252 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
الصفحة 271 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
الصفحة 252 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
الصفحة 252 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
الصفحة 150 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause...
الصفحة 101 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
الصفحة 21 - ... part ought to have inspired with nobler and juster sentiments. This prostitution of praise is not only a deceit upon the gross of mankind, who take their notion of characters from the learned; but also the better sort must by this means lose some part at least of that desire of fame which is the incentive to generous actions, when they find it promiscuously bestowed on the meritorious and undeserving...
الصفحة 215 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...
الصفحة 16 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.