The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumul 14 |
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Pagina 34
... talk at this time to my female readers . The advantages , as I was going to say , of sense , beauty , and riches , are what are certainly the chief motives to a prudent young woman of fortune for changing her condition ; but , as she is ...
... talk at this time to my female readers . The advantages , as I was going to say , of sense , beauty , and riches , are what are certainly the chief motives to a prudent young woman of fortune for changing her condition ; but , as she is ...
Pagina 89
... talk obscenely in her company , especially when she has not power to stir . Pray let me tell you a story which you can make fit for public view . I knew a gentleman , who having a very good opinion of the gentlemen of the army , invited ...
... talk obscenely in her company , especially when she has not power to stir . Pray let me tell you a story which you can make fit for public view . I knew a gentleman , who having a very good opinion of the gentlemen of the army , invited ...
Pagina 99
... talk but little to her . Her women will represent to me , that she is inconsolable by reason of my unkindness , and beg me with tears to caress her , and let her sit down by me ; but I shall still remain inexorable K 2 x535 . 99 SPECTATOR .
... talk but little to her . Her women will represent to me , that she is inconsolable by reason of my unkindness , and beg me with tears to caress her , and let her sit down by me ; but I shall still remain inexorable K 2 x535 . 99 SPECTATOR .
Pagina 113
... talk we had been carrying on . Some were silent because they doubted , and others because they were conquered in their own way ; so that the gentleman had an opportunity to press the belief of it upon us , and let us see that he was ...
... talk we had been carrying on . Some were silent because they doubted , and others because they were conquered in their own way ; so that the gentleman had an opportunity to press the belief of it upon us , and let us see that he was ...
Pagina 115
... talk , and made them easy . Thus is the same method taken to bring us to shame , which we fondly take to in- crease our character . It is indeed a kind of mimicry , by which another puts on our air of conversation to show us to ...
... talk , and made them easy . Thus is the same method taken to bring us to shame , which we fondly take to in- crease our character . It is indeed a kind of mimicry , by which another puts on our air of conversation to show us to ...
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Pagina 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Pagina 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pagina 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Pagina 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Pagina 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Pagina 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Pagina 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Pagina 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pagina 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Pagina 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.