The British Essayists: AdventurerJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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25. oldal
... gained by noisy turbulence and popular clamour . Avarice has worn a different form as she actuated the usurer of Rome and the stock - jobber of England ; and idleness itself , how little soever inclined to the trouble of invention , has ...
... gained by noisy turbulence and popular clamour . Avarice has worn a different form as she actuated the usurer of Rome and the stock - jobber of England ; and idleness itself , how little soever inclined to the trouble of invention , has ...
28. oldal
... gained nothing more than he ex- pected ; his danger was not known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acquisition was not increased ; nor had Providence interposed farther 6 6 than to exclude chance from the government of ...
... gained nothing more than he ex- pected ; his danger was not known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acquisition was not increased ; nor had Providence interposed farther 6 6 than to exclude chance from the government of ...
45. oldal
... gained only more rashness to rush into another : he stormed city after city , over - ran kingdom after king- dom , fought battles only for barren victory , and in- vaded nations only that he might make his way through them to new ...
... gained only more rashness to rush into another : he stormed city after city , over - ran kingdom after king- dom , fought battles only for barren victory , and in- vaded nations only that he might make his way through them to new ...
54. oldal
... gained the appella- tion of an Honest Fellow . By this distinction I was animated to attempt yet greater excellence ; I learned several feats of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and ...
... gained the appella- tion of an Honest Fellow . By this distinction I was animated to attempt yet greater excellence ; I learned several feats of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and ...
106. oldal
... gaining the ten thou- sand pounds by the number of his chances . He spent a month in surveying the counties that lie in the neighbourhood of the metropolis , before he could find out an agreeable site for the fine house he intended to ...
... gaining the ten thou- sand pounds by the number of his chances . He spent a month in surveying the counties that lie in the neighbourhood of the metropolis , before he could find out an agreeable site for the fine house he intended to ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
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34. oldal - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
194. oldal - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
135. oldal - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
149. oldal - Spit, fire ! spout, rain. Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription : then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man...
192. oldal - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
60. oldal - In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
195. oldal - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
135. oldal - Stain my man's cheeks! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall, — I will do such things, — What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep; No, I'll not weep: — I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll weep. — O fool, I shall go mad!
194. oldal - Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
134. oldal - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...