The Emerald, Volúmenes1-2Belcher & Armstrong, 1806 |
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... taste for natural history , great sensibility and true worth . He without teaching it . His account of has been a long time the intimate the new system of botany is more friend of Jean Jacques Rosseau ; and , amusing than instructive ...
... taste for natural history , great sensibility and true worth . He without teaching it . His account of has been a long time the intimate the new system of botany is more friend of Jean Jacques Rosseau ; and , amusing than instructive ...
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... taste , which could give a lively interest to original communications . Appropriate Motto . - During one of Foote's trips to Dublin , he was much solicited by a silly young man of fashion to assist him in a miscel- lany of poems and ...
... taste , which could give a lively interest to original communications . Appropriate Motto . - During one of Foote's trips to Dublin , he was much solicited by a silly young man of fashion to assist him in a miscel- lany of poems and ...
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... taste for the marvelous is no ev - of the same utility as a Bible , and idence of superior understanding , the intelligent FRANKLIN has mor- VOL . I. ] E The funds for conversation which are obtained by novel - THE EMERALD ...
... taste for the marvelous is no ev - of the same utility as a Bible , and idence of superior understanding , the intelligent FRANKLIN has mor- VOL . I. ] E The funds for conversation which are obtained by novel - THE EMERALD ...
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... taste enough to dress well , and cash enough to afford it . He might pass for a man of the world . His folly is in attempting to raise himself among those " set apart . " that no extraneous object should distract their attention they ...
... taste enough to dress well , and cash enough to afford it . He might pass for a man of the world . His folly is in attempting to raise himself among those " set apart . " that no extraneous object should distract their attention they ...
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... taste ; " And all amid them stood the TREE OF LIFE , " High , eminant , blooming ambrosial fruit " Of vegetable gold . " Nature is so arranged by him , as to receive an additional lustre from art ; and the exuberance of the earth ...
... taste ; " And all amid them stood the TREE OF LIFE , " High , eminant , blooming ambrosial fruit " Of vegetable gold . " Nature is so arranged by him , as to receive an additional lustre from art ; and the exuberance of the earth ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration amusement Anacreon appear Appollonius attention beauty BELCHER & ARMSTRONG Boethius Boileau bosom Boston breast character charms death delight DESULTORY SELECTIONS effect elegant Emerald EPIGRAM eral fair fashion feel folly fortune genius gentleman give grace hand happy heart heaven honour hope human JOHN HORNE TOOKE king labour lady learned literary Lord Macbeth Madoc maid manner marriage means ment merit mind moral nature Neolin ness never night o'er object observed orator ORIGINAL REMARKS Othello passion performance person play pleasure poem poet poetry praise present pride profanum R. B. Sheridan racter readers respect scene SEMPER REFULGET sentiment Shakespeare smile song soon soul spirit sweet talents taste tears Tharsie thee thing thou thought tion truth ture verse virtue voice WANDERER wealth wife writer Yoto young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 276 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 276 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Página 276 - I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip, But where my own did hope to sip.
Página 177 - Christian religion, which might be drawn from the prophecies of the Old Testament, from the necessary connection it has with the whole system of the Jewish religion, from the miracles of Christ, and from the evidence given of his resurrection by all the other apostles, he thought the conversion of St Paul alone, duly considered, was of itself a demonstration sufficient to prove Christianity to be a divine revelation.
Página 30 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 224 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Página 237 - ... if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.
Página 235 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Página 200 - Be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say. I am going to my cold and silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished : my race is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom!
Página 210 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?