Selected Prose and PoetryRinehart, 1952 - 488 oldal |
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126. oldal
... danger , or possibility of contest . Interest is seldom pursued but at some hazard . He that hopes to gain much , has commonly something to lose , and when he ventures to attack superiority , if he fails to conquer , is irrecoverably ...
... danger , or possibility of contest . Interest is seldom pursued but at some hazard . He that hopes to gain much , has commonly something to lose , and when he ventures to attack superiority , if he fails to conquer , is irrecoverably ...
201. oldal
... danger . I believe it may be sometimes found , that a little learning is to a poor man a dangerous thing.3 But such is the condition of humanity , that we easily see , or quickly feel the wrong , but cannot always distinguish the right ...
... danger . I believe it may be sometimes found , that a little learning is to a poor man a dangerous thing.3 But such is the condition of humanity , that we easily see , or quickly feel the wrong , but cannot always distinguish the right ...
340. oldal
... danger where gold and dia- monds are safe . A cat hunted for his musk is , according to Pope's account , but the emblem of a wit winded by booksellers . His complaint , however , received some attestation , for the same year the Letters ...
... danger where gold and dia- monds are safe . A cat hunted for his musk is , according to Pope's account , but the emblem of a wit winded by booksellers . His complaint , however , received some attestation , for the same year the Letters ...
Tartalomjegyzék
PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS | 32 |
POETRY | 42 |
ESSAYS | 60 |
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Addison appears Aristotle attention beauties blank verse censure character Chrysippus common considered criticism curiosity danger death delight desire dignity diligence discovered Drugget Dryden Dunciad Earse easily elegance endeavour English enquire envy equally Essay Essay on Criticism evil excellence expected eyes faults favour frequently garret genius happiness honour hope Hudibras human idleness Iliad images imagination kind knowledge labour language learning lence letters live Lord mankind Matthew Prior ment mind misery nature neglect never numbers observed opinion ourselves Ovid pain Paradise Lost passed passions perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's praise present produced publick reader reason Satire of Juvenal says scarcely scenes seems Seged seldom sentiments Shakespeare shew Skie sometimes sorrow suffered sufficient supposed things thou thought tion truth unkle vanity verse virtue wish words writer