The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, 36권 |
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... town and the world , is the playhouse ; I shall therefore fill this pa- per with reflections upon the use of it in that place . The application of wit in the theatre has as strong an effect upon the manners of our gentlemen , as the ...
... town and the world , is the playhouse ; I shall therefore fill this pa- per with reflections upon the use of it in that place . The application of wit in the theatre has as strong an effect upon the manners of our gentlemen , as the ...
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... town , ex- cept the Shoemaker . ' His pretension to be the hero of the drama appears still more in his own descrip- tion of his way of living with his lady . • There is , says he , ' never a man in town lives more like a gen- tleman ...
... town , ex- cept the Shoemaker . ' His pretension to be the hero of the drama appears still more in his own descrip- tion of his way of living with his lady . • There is , says he , ' never a man in town lives more like a gen- tleman ...
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... town , and under my care for her education . She is very pretty , but you cannot ima- gine how unformed a creature it is . She comes to my hands just as nature left her , half finished , and * How could it be otherwise , when the author ...
... town , and under my care for her education . She is very pretty , but you cannot ima- gine how unformed a creature it is . She comes to my hands just as nature left her , half finished , and * How could it be otherwise , when the author ...
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... town , when her elder brother is afraid to come into a room . From this ill management it arises , that we frequently ob- serve a man's life is half spent , before he is taken notice of ; and a woman in the prime of her years is out of ...
... town , when her elder brother is afraid to come into a room . From this ill management it arises , that we frequently ob- serve a man's life is half spent , before he is taken notice of ; and a woman in the prime of her years is out of ...
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... town which I so much love to frequent as the Royal Exchange . It gives me a secret satisfaction , and in some measure gratifies my vanity , as I am an Englishman , to see so rich an assembly of countrymen and foreigners , consulting ...
... town which I so much love to frequent as the Royal Exchange . It gives me a secret satisfaction , and in some measure gratifies my vanity , as I am an Englishman , to see so rich an assembly of countrymen and foreigners , consulting ...
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294 페이지 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge ? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
200 페이지 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
283 페이지 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that Means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several Times Foreman of the Petty-Jury. The other that rides along with him is Tom Touchy, a Fellow famous for taking the Law of every Body.
259 페이지 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
211 페이지 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
39 페이지 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the...
65 페이지 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
232 페이지 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn x 2 from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it; which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others who have written on this subject, though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it.
255 페이지 - So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
64 페이지 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...