The Citizen of the World, Volume 2J. M. Dent and Company, 1891 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
acquaintance Adieu admiration agonizing respirations amusement appeared applause assertor barbarity beauty become Brentford bugbites Ceremonial Academy character charms China Chinese Circassia Confucius continued cries curiosity dear desire detesting disappointed distress dress Emperor endeavour Europe expected eyes face fame fancy favour fond fortune Fum Hoam genius give gratitude happened happiness Hingpo honour lady laws learning LETTER Lien Chi Altangi live Livonia look mad dog Mandarine mankind manner marriage master mastiff Mencius ment merit mind misery Moscow Nature ness never night obliged occasion once passion Pekin perceived person philosopher pity pleased pleasure poet poor praise present proper racter rapture received regard replied repug resolved Richard Rock says seemed seraglio served Sesostris shew smile society soon spectator spleen surprize Thalestris things thought Tibbs tion town virtue whole wisdom wretch
Populaire passages
Pagina 254 - If I had had the good fortune to have lost my leg and use of my hand on board a king's ship, and not aboard a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life ; but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle.
Pagina 243 - ... be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room. What cities as great as this have once triumphed in existence, had their victories as great, joy as just, and as unbounded; and, with short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some ; the sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others ; and, as he beholds, he learns wisdom, and feels the transience of every sublunary...
Pagina 54 - ... was quite disgusted with small gains, and his customers began to forsake him. Every day he repeated the wish, and every night laid himself down in order to dream. Fortune, that was for a long time unkind, at last however seemed to smile upon his distresses, and indulged him with the wished-for vision.
Pagina 271 - ... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.
Pagina 63 - I found every sense overpaid with more than expected pleasure; the lights everywhere glimmering through the scarcely moving trees; the full-bodied concert bursting on the stillness of the night, the natural concert of the birds, in the more retired part of the grove, vying with that which was formed by art; the company...
Pagina 242 - THE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person.
Pagina 242 - 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.
Pagina 109 - The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Pagina 284 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Pagina 53 - Chinese learning ; he, who despising small sums, and grasping at all, lost even what he had ? tVhang, the miller, was naturally avaricious ; nobody loved money better than he, or more respected those that had it. When people would talk of a rich man in company, Whang would say, I know him very well ; he and I have been long acquainted ; he and I are intimate...