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Pagina 13
... look into their own conduct for the cause , and , imitating the behaviour of Horatio , endeavour to shew that a man's feelings need not be the less delicate for being under the direction of a sound judgment ; and that he who best knows ...
... look into their own conduct for the cause , and , imitating the behaviour of Horatio , endeavour to shew that a man's feelings need not be the less delicate for being under the direction of a sound judgment ; and that he who best knows ...
Pagina 24
... look a little odd , and now and then tempt one to smile , yet the most eccentric of them all have something venerable about them . Some of my friend's peculiarities may not only be discovered in his manner and his discourse , but may be ...
... look a little odd , and now and then tempt one to smile , yet the most eccentric of them all have something venerable about them . Some of my friend's peculiarities may not only be discovered in his manner and his discourse , but may be ...
Pagina 41
... look for them in the company of the gay , whose minds , unbent from serious and important occupations , had leisure to sport themselves in the regions of wit and humour , and to communicate the liveliness of their fancy to the society ...
... look for them in the company of the gay , whose minds , unbent from serious and important occupations , had leisure to sport themselves in the regions of wit and humour , and to communicate the liveliness of their fancy to the society ...
Pagina 42
... look , for some time , with impatience . The superiority of his talents for conversation seemed , indeed , to be acknowledged ; for he was al- lowed to talk almost unceasingly , with very little inter- ruption from any other person ...
... look , for some time , with impatience . The superiority of his talents for conversation seemed , indeed , to be acknowledged ; for he was al- lowed to talk almost unceasingly , with very little inter- ruption from any other person ...
Pagina 43
... look when they next entered the room ! ” For my part I have so much reverence for a woman of honour , as to hold sacred even the place she has occupied , and cannot easily bear its immediate profanation by obscenity . I therefore took ...
... look when they next entered the room ! ” For my part I have so much reverence for a woman of honour , as to hold sacred even the place she has occupied , and cannot easily bear its immediate profanation by obscenity . I therefore took ...
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Pagina 249 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
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Pagina 304 - Sir Edward pressed to know the cause; after some hesitation she told it all. Her father had fixed on the son of a neighbour, rich in possessions, but rude in manners, for her husband. Against this match she had always protested as strongly as a sense of duty, and the mildness of her nature, would allow; but Venoni was obstinately bent on the match, and she was wretched from the thoughts of it — ' To marry, where one cannot love, — to marry such a man, Sir Edward !' It was an opportunity beyond...