A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Oxford University Press, 1913 - 573 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... pleasure . I understand it that the song be in choir , placed aloft and accompanied with some broken music ; and the ditty fitted to the device . Acting in song , especially in dialogues , hath an extreme good grace ; I say acting , not ...
... pleasure . I understand it that the song be in choir , placed aloft and accompanied with some broken music ; and the ditty fitted to the device . Acting in song , especially in dialogues , hath an extreme good grace ; I say acting , not ...
Pagina 2
... pleasure to desire to see that it cannot perfectly discern . Let the songs be loud and cheerful , and not chirpings or pulings let the music likewise be sharp and loud and well placed . The colours that show best by candlelight are ...
... pleasure to desire to see that it cannot perfectly discern . Let the songs be loud and cheerful , and not chirpings or pulings let the music likewise be sharp and loud and well placed . The colours that show best by candlelight are ...
Pagina 20
... pleasure from her in a dream which she had denied unto his awaking senses : conceiving that she had merited somewhat from his fantastical fruition and shadow of herself . If there be such debts , we owe deeply unto sympathies ; but the ...
... pleasure from her in a dream which she had denied unto his awaking senses : conceiving that she had merited somewhat from his fantastical fruition and shadow of herself . If there be such debts , we owe deeply unto sympathies ; but the ...
Pagina 32
... pleasure ; the one against the peace of Germany , and the other against that with the Low Countries ; by both which these his vicars - general absolve all men from observing it , though they are bound by their oaths never to swerve from ...
... pleasure ; the one against the peace of Germany , and the other against that with the Low Countries ; by both which these his vicars - general absolve all men from observing it , though they are bound by their oaths never to swerve from ...
Pagina 37
... pleasure in that kind of mirth . I have been drawn twice or thrice by company to go to Bedlam , and have seen others very much delighted with the fantastical extravagancy of so many various madnesses ; which upon me wrought so contrary ...
... pleasure in that kind of mirth . I have been drawn twice or thrice by company to go to Bedlam , and have seen others very much delighted with the fantastical extravagancy of so many various madnesses ; which upon me wrought so contrary ...
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Pagina 68 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival...
Pagina 93 - ... sed nil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrina sapientum templa serena...
Pagina 68 - I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, "Mirza," said he, "I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Pagina 3 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Pagina 155 - In barbers' shops and public-houses a fellow will get up, and spell out a paragraph, which he communicates as some discovery. Another follows with his selection. So the entire journal transpires at length by piece-meal. Seldom-readers are slow readers, and, without this expedient no one in the company would probably ever travel through the contents of a whole paper. Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. What an eternal time that gentleman...
Pagina 3 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism, as the time of Augustus Caesar, were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many...
Pagina 149 - English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Pagina 153 - But where a book is at once both good and rare, where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine; such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess: no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.
Pagina 135 - O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early homestead ! The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years ! How, in my dreams, would my native town (far in the west) come back, with its church, and trees, and faces ! How I would wake weeping, and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! To this late hour of my life, I trace impressions left by recollection of those friendless holidays.
Pagina 234 - And beyond is the land of Beulah, where the flowers, the grapes, and the songs of birds never cease, and where the sun shines night and day. Thence are plainly seen the golden pavements and streets of pearl, on the other side of that black and cold river over which there is no bridge.