The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... once the utmost of his ambition , and of renewing that pursuit which alone had made him happy , such was the pungency of his regret that , in the despair of recovering the money which he knew had pro- duced nothing but riot , disease ...
... once the utmost of his ambition , and of renewing that pursuit which alone had made him happy , such was the pungency of his regret that , in the despair of recovering the money which he knew had pro- duced nothing but riot , disease ...
Side 13
... . But having , by accident , heard the re- port which had been circulated by the friends of Evander , he was at once struck with a sense of his VOL . III . C good fortune ; and was so affected by a retrospect 96 . 13 ADVENTURER .
... . But having , by accident , heard the re- port which had been circulated by the friends of Evander , he was at once struck with a sense of his VOL . III . C good fortune ; and was so affected by a retrospect 96 . 13 ADVENTURER .
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... once highly poetical , and exactly suited to the wildness of the speaker : Pray you tread softly , that the blind mole may not Hear a foot - fall .. I always lament that our author has not preserved this fierce and implacable spirit in ...
... once highly poetical , and exactly suited to the wildness of the speaker : Pray you tread softly , that the blind mole may not Hear a foot - fall .. I always lament that our author has not preserved this fierce and implacable spirit in ...
Side 20
... once the tenderness , the innocence , and the simplicity of her character . She discovers her lover employed in the laborious task of carrying wood , which Pros- pero had enjoined him to perform . Would , " says she , " the lightning ...
... once the tenderness , the innocence , and the simplicity of her character . She discovers her lover employed in the laborious task of carrying wood , which Pros- pero had enjoined him to perform . Would , " says she , " the lightning ...
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... once the remains and the monument , written over it , among many others of the same rank , in the gallery of a spacious building , to be erected by lottery for that purpose : I propose that this gallery be called the Blood's Gallery ...
... once the remains and the monument , written over it , among many others of the same rank , in the gallery of a spacious building , to be erected by lottery for that purpose : I propose that this gallery be called the Blood's Gallery ...
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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.