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... SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES ; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY ; AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF GOLDSMITH , LIFE OF BURKE , ETC. ETC. IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL I. LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET . MDCCCXXXVII . OTHE BODI FIL Printed by J. L. Cox ...
... SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES ; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY ; AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF GOLDSMITH , LIFE OF BURKE , ETC. ETC. IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL I. LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET . MDCCCXXXVII . OTHE BODI FIL Printed by J. L. Cox ...
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... society , I feel the solitude of a hermit , but not his ease . ( 1 ) The prince of *** has taken me in his train , so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout . The prince's governor is a rude ignorant pedant , and his tutor a ...
... society , I feel the solitude of a hermit , but not his ease . ( 1 ) The prince of *** has taken me in his train , so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout . The prince's governor is a rude ignorant pedant , and his tutor a ...
Pagina 40
... society . Whatever we desire , whatever we wish , it is but to clothe those de- sires or wishes in words , in order to fruition ; the principal use of language , therefore , say they , is to express our wants , so as to receive a speedy ...
... society . Whatever we desire , whatever we wish , it is but to clothe those de- sires or wishes in words , in order to fruition ; the principal use of language , therefore , say they , is to express our wants , so as to receive a speedy ...
Pagina 46
... society , is not a more solitary being than the woman who leaves the duties of her own sex to invade the privileges of ours . She seems , in such circum- stances , like one in banishment ; she appears like a neutral being between the ...
... society , is not a more solitary being than the woman who leaves the duties of her own sex to invade the privileges of ours . She seems , in such circum- stances , like one in banishment ; she appears like a neutral being between the ...
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... society ; and the other attracts our es- teem , which too frequently proceeds from an impetuosity of temper , rather directed by vanity than reason . Lysippus is told that his banker asks a debt of forty pounds , and that a distressed ...
... society ; and the other attracts our es- teem , which too frequently proceeds from an impetuosity of temper , rather directed by vanity than reason . Lysippus is told that his banker asks a debt of forty pounds , and that a distressed ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 298 - 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...
Pagina 298 - 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...
Pagina iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Pagina 298 - To die: to sleep; 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...
Pagina 298 - 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 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 272 - 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.
Pagina 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Pagina 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Pagina 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...