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Pagina 14
... some general propofition . No praise is claimed on that account ; becaufe cenfuring with a view merely to find fault , cannot be en- tertaining to any perfon of humanity . Writers , one should imagine , ought , above all others , to be ...
... some general propofition . No praise is claimed on that account ; becaufe cenfuring with a view merely to find fault , cannot be en- tertaining to any perfon of humanity . Writers , one should imagine , ought , above all others , to be ...
Pagina 37
... Some actions raise pleasant emotions in the spectator , without the least reflection ; fuch as graceful motion , and genteel behaviour . But as intention , a capital circumstance in human ac- tions , is not visible , it requires ...
... Some actions raise pleasant emotions in the spectator , without the least reflection ; fuch as graceful motion , and genteel behaviour . But as intention , a capital circumstance in human ac- tions , is not visible , it requires ...
Pagina 93
... some degree be enga- ged by the former , efpecially if the distinctness of ideal prefence approach to that of real pre- fence . Hence the pleasure of a reverie , where a man , forgetting himself , is totally occupied with the ideas ...
... some degree be enga- ged by the former , efpecially if the distinctness of ideal prefence approach to that of real pre- fence . Hence the pleasure of a reverie , where a man , forgetting himself , is totally occupied with the ideas ...
Pagina 94
Lord Henry Home Kames. any emotion : it may be agreeable in some slight degree ; but its ideas are too faint and obfcure to raise any thing like an emotion ; and were they ever fo lively , they pafs with too much pre- cipitation to have ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. any emotion : it may be agreeable in some slight degree ; but its ideas are too faint and obfcure to raise any thing like an emotion ; and were they ever fo lively , they pafs with too much pre- cipitation to have ...
Pagina 111
... Some perfons indeed , Nature's favourites , have a wonderful a- cuteness of sense , which to them unfolds many a delightful scene totally hid from vulgar eyes . But if fuch refined pleasure be confined to a small number , it is however ...
... Some perfons indeed , Nature's favourites , have a wonderful a- cuteness of sense , which to them unfolds many a delightful scene totally hid from vulgar eyes . But if fuch refined pleasure be confined to a small number , it is however ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 287 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 157 - I did hear him groan ; Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Pagina 156 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Pagina 283 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Pagina 162 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Pagina 74 - O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Pagina 510 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pagina 221 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pagina 136 - Out upon her ! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise ; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
Pagina 161 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!