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... sound ; Where'er the king of fish moves on before , This humble friend attends from shore to shore ; With eye still earnest , and with bill inclin'd , He picks up what his patron drops behind , With those choice cates his palate to ...
... sound ; Where'er the king of fish moves on before , This humble friend attends from shore to shore ; With eye still earnest , and with bill inclin'd , He picks up what his patron drops behind , With those choice cates his palate to ...
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... features than in other countries , and are not without wit and ingenuity . Their apprehension is quick , and their judgment sound . There are in the climate two harvests in the year ; one in winter , 12 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
... features than in other countries , and are not without wit and ingenuity . Their apprehension is quick , and their judgment sound . There are in the climate two harvests in the year ; one in winter , 12 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
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... sound mind in a sound body . Let us pray for fortitude , that we may think the labours of Hercules and all his sufferings preferable to a life of luxury and the soft repose of SARDANA- PALUS . This is a blessing within the reach of ...
... sound mind in a sound body . Let us pray for fortitude , that we may think the labours of Hercules and all his sufferings preferable to a life of luxury and the soft repose of SARDANA- PALUS . This is a blessing within the reach of ...
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... sound of the words . Determined to discard colloquial barbarisms and licen- tious idioms , he forgot the elegant simplicity that distin- guishes the writings of Addison . He had what Locke calls a round about view of his subject ; and ...
... sound of the words . Determined to discard colloquial barbarisms and licen- tious idioms , he forgot the elegant simplicity that distin- guishes the writings of Addison . He had what Locke calls a round about view of his subject ; and ...
118. oldal
... sound observation . The writers who followed Dr. Donne , went in quest of something better than truth and nature . As Sancho says in Don Quixote , they wanted better bread than is made with wheat . They took pains to bewil- der ...
... sound observation . The writers who followed Dr. Donne , went in quest of something better than truth and nature . As Sancho says in Don Quixote , they wanted better bread than is made with wheat . They took pains to bewil- der ...
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83. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
156. oldal - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain...
154. oldal - Ray, And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day ; Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy Cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate Fumes in Vain; Should Beauty blunt on Fops...
51. oldal - To the Right Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, " I HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietors of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the...
52. oldal - When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
160. oldal - Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise? From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
52. oldal - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour.
144. oldal - But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold; Where won by bribes, by flatteries implor'd, The groom retails the favours of his lord. But hark! th...
10. oldal - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
163. oldal - WHEN Learning's Triumph o'er her barb'rous Foes First rear'd the Stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each Change of many-colour'd Life he drew, Exhausted Worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded Reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain: His pow'rful Strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the Breast.