The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Side 12
... wish more than any other to oblige ; but I have just presented the living to the person whom you saw take his leave when you entered the room . " 66 This declaration was a stroke which Evander had neither skill 12 96 . ADVENTURER .
... wish more than any other to oblige ; but I have just presented the living to the person whom you saw take his leave when you entered the room . " 66 This declaration was a stroke which Evander had neither skill 12 96 . ADVENTURER .
Side 20
... this simple wish and offer of assistance than by the unnatural eloquence and witticisms of Dryden , or the amorous declamations of Rowe . The resentment of Prospero for the matchless cruelty and wicked 20 97 . ADVENTURER .
... this simple wish and offer of assistance than by the unnatural eloquence and witticisms of Dryden , or the amorous declamations of Rowe . The resentment of Prospero for the matchless cruelty and wicked 20 97 . ADVENTURER .
Side 28
... wishes never want celebrators of their wisdom and their virtue ; and they that mis- carry are quickly discovered to have been defective not only in mental but in moral qualities . The world will never be long without some good reason to ...
... wishes never want celebrators of their wisdom and their virtue ; and they that mis- carry are quickly discovered to have been defective not only in mental but in moral qualities . The world will never be long without some good reason to ...
Side 31
... wish rather to diminish the reputation of their suc- cess than the infamy of their miscarriages : for I cannot conceive , why he that has burned cities , wasted nations , and filled the world with horror and desolation , should be more ...
... wish rather to diminish the reputation of their suc- cess than the infamy of their miscarriages : for I cannot conceive , why he that has burned cities , wasted nations , and filled the world with horror and desolation , should be more ...
Side 42
... wishes are most proper for the welfare of a river goddess : the circumstance of summer not scorching her tresses is highly poetical and elegant : but what follows , though it is pompous and ma- jestic , is unnatural and far fetched ...
... wishes are most proper for the welfare of a river goddess : the circumstance of summer not scorching her tresses is highly poetical and elegant : but what follows , though it is pompous and ma- jestic , is unnatural and far fetched ...
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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.