The British Prose Writers...: Goldsmith's essays, and BeeJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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Strana 28
... pleasure to me equal to a refined conversation ; there is nothing of which I am so much enamoured as wisdom ... pleasures have their origin in vanity , lux- ury , or avarice , we are too good to pursue them . " " All this may be right ...
... pleasure to me equal to a refined conversation ; there is nothing of which I am so much enamoured as wisdom ... pleasures have their origin in vanity , lux- ury , or avarice , we are too good to pursue them . " " All this may be right ...
Strana 43
... pleasures , and follies , of men at different periods . You will find mankind neither better nor worse now than formerly : the vices of an uncivilized people are generally more detestable , though not so frequent , as those in polite ...
... pleasures , and follies , of men at different periods . You will find mankind neither better nor worse now than formerly : the vices of an uncivilized people are generally more detestable , though not so frequent , as those in polite ...
Strana 44
... pleasure , and gave a boundless loose to appetite . The laws allowed it ; each priest had a right to a favourite companion , and a power of discarding her as often as he pleased . The laity grumbled , quarrelled with their wives and ...
... pleasure , and gave a boundless loose to appetite . The laws allowed it ; each priest had a right to a favourite companion , and a power of discarding her as often as he pleased . The laity grumbled , quarrelled with their wives and ...
Strana 52
... pleasure , but quite ignorant of the art of refining upon it ; thus a court - bawd of those times resembled the common low - lived harridan of a modern bagnio . Witness , ye powers of debauchery , how often I have been present at the ...
... pleasure , but quite ignorant of the art of refining upon it ; thus a court - bawd of those times resembled the common low - lived harridan of a modern bagnio . Witness , ye powers of debauchery , how often I have been present at the ...
Strana 53
... pleasure , and in- finitely more selfish . " The last hostess of note I find upon record was Jane Rouse . She was born among the lower ranks of the people ; and by frugality and extreme com- plaisance contrived to acquire a moderate ...
... pleasure , and in- finitely more selfish . " The last hostess of note I find upon record was Jane Rouse . She was born among the lower ranks of the people ; and by frugality and extreme com- plaisance contrived to acquire a moderate ...
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Strana 139 - 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: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Strana 139 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Strana 158 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's...
Strana 158 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Strana 109 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Strana 148 - O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Strana 183 - Humor at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and a song. It depends upon the audience, whether they will actually drive those poor merry creatures from the stage, or sit at a play as gloomy as at the tabernacle. It is not easy to recover an art when once lost ; and it will be but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humor from the stage, we should ourselves...
Strana 81 - Let me no longer waste the night over the page of antiquity, or the sallies of contemporary genius ; but pursue the solitary walk, where vanity, ever changing, but a few hours past walked before me, where she kept up the pageant, and now, like a froward child, seems hushed with her own importunities.
Strana 74 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Strana 77 - It formed an attack upon a neighbouring fortification with great vigour, and at first was as vigorously repulsed. Not daunted, however, with one defeat, in this manner it continued to lay siege to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance...