Essays, on miscellaneous subjects; with An enquiry into the present state of polite learningSamuel Archer, 1818 - 270 頁 |
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第 22 頁
... beauty of these scenes is no way comparable with their utility ; hence a hundred rivers are supplied , which distribute health and verdure to the various countries through which they flow . Every part of the universe is beautiful , just ...
... beauty of these scenes is no way comparable with their utility ; hence a hundred rivers are supplied , which distribute health and verdure to the various countries through which they flow . Every part of the universe is beautiful , just ...
第 23 頁
... beauty . Why was I born of that detested species , whose vices are almost a reproach to the wisdom of the divine Creator ? Were men entirely free from vice , all would be uniformity , harmony , and order . A world of moral rectitude ...
... beauty . Why was I born of that detested species , whose vices are almost a reproach to the wisdom of the divine Creator ? Were men entirely free from vice , all would be uniformity , harmony , and order . A world of moral rectitude ...
第 46 頁
... beauty , and great expectations . She could make shifts and hose for herself and all the servants of the family , when she was twelve years old . She knew the names of the four - and- twenty letters , so that it was impossible to ...
... beauty , and great expectations . She could make shifts and hose for herself and all the servants of the family , when she was twelve years old . She knew the names of the four - and- twenty letters , so that it was impossible to ...
第 47 頁
... beauty ; when every woman that could tell stories , might be cried up for a wit . " — “ I am as much displeased at those dresses which conceal too much , as at those which discover too much : I am equal- ly an enemy to a female dunce or ...
... beauty ; when every woman that could tell stories , might be cried up for a wit . " — “ I am as much displeased at those dresses which conceal too much , as at those which discover too much : I am equal- ly an enemy to a female dunce or ...
第 48 頁
... beauty palled upon enjoyment , be doom- ed to infamy and want . " Under the care of this lady , the tavern grew into great reputation ; the courtiers had not yet learned to game , but they paid it off by drinking ; drunkenness is ever ...
... beauty palled upon enjoyment , be doom- ed to infamy and want . " Under the care of this lady , the tavern grew into great reputation ; the courtiers had not yet learned to game , but they paid it off by drinking ; drunkenness is ever ...
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第 132 頁 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
第 150 頁 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
第 150 頁 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
第 139 頁 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
第 131 頁 - To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
第 103 頁 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
第 173 頁 - Yet, notwithstanding this weight of authority, and the universal practice of former ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults of mankind, make our interest in the piece.
第 234 頁 - There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much as possible.
第 233 頁 - His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning ; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonize under the slightest disappointment.
第 132 頁 - He now drops this idea, and reverts to his reasoning on death, in the course of which he owns himself deterred from suicide by the thoughts of what may follow death: the dread of something after death (That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns.) This might be a good argument in a Heathen or Pagan, and such indeed...