ProseSamuel Walker, 1826 |
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Pagina 505
... nature : for any thing fo overdone , is from the purpofe of playing ; whofe end is - to hold , as ' twere the mirror up to na- ture ; to fhew Virtue her own feature , Scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time his form ...
... nature : for any thing fo overdone , is from the purpofe of playing ; whofe end is - to hold , as ' twere the mirror up to na- ture ; to fhew Virtue her own feature , Scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time his form ...
Pagina 512
... nature , and give a man the afcen- dant in fociety : formed to excel in peace , as well as war ; provident in counfel ; fearlefs in action ; and execut- ing what he had refolved with an amaz- ing celerity : generous beyond measure to ...
... nature , and give a man the afcen- dant in fociety : formed to excel in peace , as well as war ; provident in counfel ; fearlefs in action ; and execut- ing what he had refolved with an amaz- ing celerity : generous beyond measure to ...
Pagina 513
... natural enemies to juftice , and as fuggefting falfe motives of acting , from favour , clemency , and compaffion : in ... nature and philofophy : when he could no longer be what he had been ; or when the ills of life over - balanced the ...
... natural enemies to juftice , and as fuggefting falfe motives of acting , from favour , clemency , and compaffion : in ... nature and philofophy : when he could no longer be what he had been ; or when the ills of life over - balanced the ...
Pagina 521
... Nature in her graces , but even to adorn her with graces of thine own ! Poffeffed of thee , the meaneft genius grows deferving , and has a just demand for a portion of our efteem : devoid of thee , the brighteft of our kind lie loft and ...
... Nature in her graces , but even to adorn her with graces of thine own ! Poffeffed of thee , the meaneft genius grows deferving , and has a just demand for a portion of our efteem : devoid of thee , the brighteft of our kind lie loft and ...
Pagina 522
... nature , not the pleasure of his palate , he folely regarded in his meals . He made no diftinction of day and night in his watching , or taking reft ; and ap- propriated no time to fleep , but what remained after he had completed his ...
... nature , not the pleasure of his palate , he folely regarded in his meals . He made no diftinction of day and night in his watching , or taking reft ; and ap- propriated no time to fleep , but what remained after he had completed his ...
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Pagina 729 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Pagina 657 - The curse never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear ! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin...
Pagina 505 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Pagina 514 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Pagina 883 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Pagina 778 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Pagina 725 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Pagina 831 - I shall say but little at present of their Learning, which for many Ages hath flourished in all its Branches among them : But their manner of Writing is very peculiar, being neither from the Left to the Right, like the Europeans ; nor from the Right to the Left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese , nor from down to up, like the Cascagians ; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England.
Pagina 870 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Pagina 585 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.