The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... ladies , who in another century have been sensible of scarce any other merit than that of riches , and listened only to jointures and pin - money . Thus the ambitious man has at all times been eager of wealth and power ; but these hopes ...
... ladies , who in another century have been sensible of scarce any other merit than that of riches , and listened only to jointures and pin - money . Thus the ambitious man has at all times been eager of wealth and power ; but these hopes ...
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... lady remarkable for her beauty and her wit ; his age is that in which manhood is said to be complete , his constitution is vigorous , his per- son graceful , and his understanding strong . I found him in full health , lolling in an easy ...
... lady remarkable for her beauty and her wit ; his age is that in which manhood is said to be complete , his constitution is vigorous , his per- son graceful , and his understanding strong . I found him in full health , lolling in an easy ...
Side 37
... ladies . I had before made some progress in learn- ing to swear ; I had proceeded by fegs , faith , рох , plague , ' pon my life , ' pon my soul , rat it , and zoo- kers , to zauns and the divil . I now advanced to by Jove , ' fore ged ...
... ladies . I had before made some progress in learn- ing to swear ; I had proceeded by fegs , faith , рох , plague , ' pon my life , ' pon my soul , rat it , and zoo- kers , to zauns and the divil . I now advanced to by Jove , ' fore ged ...
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... lady in the first apartment had prevailed upon her husband , a man of study and economy , to indulge her with a rout twice a week at her own house . This soon multiplied her obligations to the company she kept , and in a fortnight she ...
... lady in the first apartment had prevailed upon her husband , a man of study and economy , to indulge her with a rout twice a week at her own house . This soon multiplied her obligations to the company she kept , and in a fortnight she ...
Side 88
... lady had for many years as- siduously attended an old gouty uncle , had assented to all his absurdities , and humoured all his foibles , in full expectation of being made his executrix ; when happening one day to affirm that his gruel ...
... lady had for many years as- siduously attended an old gouty uncle , had assented to all his absurdities , and humoured all his foibles , in full expectation of being made his executrix ; when happening one day to affirm that his gruel ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance beauty Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt courage danger daughter Dean Swift Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoy enjoyment equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gratify happiness Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope Hope and Fear hour idleness imagination increase insensibility JOHN HAWKESWORTH Johnson kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetually pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion Soliman solitude sometimes soon Story suffered Sycorax tenderness thee thou thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue Warton wish wretched writer Xerxes
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Side 109 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Side 111 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Side 151 - 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.
Side 152 - No, no, no life ! 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.
Side 107 - Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Side 93 - 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...
Side 149 - 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; This...
Side 112 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; — [To Edgar. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.