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... entertainment , than what can be found in the following , or any other book . One cannot indeed without offence to yourself observe , that you excel the rest of mankind in the least , as well as the greatest endowments . Nor were it a ...
... entertainment , than what can be found in the following , or any other book . One cannot indeed without offence to yourself observe , that you excel the rest of mankind in the least , as well as the greatest endowments . Nor were it a ...
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... entertainment of my life : I never enter into the com- merce of discourse with any but my particular friends , and not in public even with them . Such a habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I cannot ...
... entertainment of my life : I never enter into the com- merce of discourse with any but my particular friends , and not in public even with them . Such a habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I cannot ...
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... entertainment as any that I am able to fur nish him with , and therefore shall make no apology for them : - " TO THE SPECTATOR , & c . for the reformation of manners , and therefore think myself a proper person for your correspondence ...
... entertainment as any that I am able to fur nish him with , and therefore shall make no apology for them : - " TO THE SPECTATOR , & c . for the reformation of manners , and therefore think myself a proper person for your correspondence ...
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... entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate trifles of that nation . This alarmed the poetasters and fiddlers of the town , who were used to deal in a more ordinary kind of ware ; and therefore laid down an established rule ...
... entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate trifles of that nation . This alarmed the poetasters and fiddlers of the town , who were used to deal in a more ordinary kind of ware ; and therefore laid down an established rule ...
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... entertainment . lation to these three heads , his pains , his reliefs , and his happiness . The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure . The relish of his life is inverted ; and the objects which ...
... entertainment . lation to these three heads , his pains , his reliefs , and his happiness . The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure . The relish of his life is inverted ; and the objects which ...
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Page 287 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 203 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 129 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
Page 6 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Page 345 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 6 - He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Page 181 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Page 181 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Page 7 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily.
Page 6 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.