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Pagina 10
... Paf , fages as occur to my Memory out of ancient Authors , I cannot omit a Sentence in the celebrated Funeral Ora- tion of Pericles , which he made in Honour of those brave Athenians that were flain in a Fight with the Lacedemo- nians ...
... Paf , fages as occur to my Memory out of ancient Authors , I cannot omit a Sentence in the celebrated Funeral Ora- tion of Pericles , which he made in Honour of those brave Athenians that were flain in a Fight with the Lacedemo- nians ...
Pagina 42
... pafs fuch another Night to be Mafter of the whole Sex . My Reader will doubtless be curious to know what became of me the next Morning : Why truly my Bed - fellows left me about an Hour before Day , and told me if I would be good and ...
... pafs fuch another Night to be Mafter of the whole Sex . My Reader will doubtless be curious to know what became of me the next Morning : Why truly my Bed - fellows left me about an Hour before Day , and told me if I would be good and ...
Pagina 45
... pafs the Night , Yet rife next Morning vigorous for the Fight , Fresh as the Day , and active as the Light . } } UPON hearing this , Craftin , with an Air of Defe rence , played Honoria's Fan , and repeated , Sidley has that prevailing ...
... pafs the Night , Yet rife next Morning vigorous for the Fight , Fresh as the Day , and active as the Light . } } UPON hearing this , Craftin , with an Air of Defe rence , played Honoria's Fan , and repeated , Sidley has that prevailing ...
Pagina 51
... pafs away before the happy Meeting . Thus , as faft as our Time runs , we fhould be very glad in moft Parts of our Lives that it ran much fafter than it does . Several Hours of the Day hang up- on our Hands , nay we wish away whole ...
... pafs away before the happy Meeting . Thus , as faft as our Time runs , we fhould be very glad in moft Parts of our Lives that it ran much fafter than it does . Several Hours of the Day hang up- on our Hands , nay we wish away whole ...
Pagina 55
... pafs in his Mind whilft he is taken up with that earnest Contemplation , lets flip " out of his Account a good Part of that Duration , and " thinks that Time fhorter than it is . WE might carry this Thought further , and confider a Man ...
... pafs in his Mind whilft he is taken up with that earnest Contemplation , lets flip " out of his Account a good Part of that Duration , and " thinks that Time fhorter than it is . WE might carry this Thought further , and confider a Man ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 286 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Pagina 289 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Pagina 110 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Pagina 112 - As soon as the Sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the Church. The Knight walks down from his Seat in the Chancel between a double row of his Tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side; and every now and then...
Pagina 153 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
Pagina 112 - ... dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate as of a man of learning...
Pagina 110 - It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time in which the whole village meet together with their best faces and in their cleanliest habits to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the supreme Being.
Pagina 96 - ... he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Pagina 286 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Pagina 101 - Country, and is very famous for finding out a Hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little Handicrafts of an idle Man: He makes a May-fly to a Miracle ; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.