The British Essayists, 第 8 卷Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... , consider it as an outrage against a distressed person that cannot get from thee : to speak indis- creetly what we are obliged to hear , by being hasped up with thee in this public vehicle , is in No 132 . 3 SPECTATOR .
... , consider it as an outrage against a distressed person that cannot get from thee : to speak indis- creetly what we are obliged to hear , by being hasped up with thee in this public vehicle , is in No 132 . 3 SPECTATOR .
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... speak to your correspondent on my behalf , and in your next pa- per let me know what he expects , either by the month or the quarter , for teaching : and where he keeps his place of rendezvous . I have a son too , whom I would fain have ...
... speak to your correspondent on my behalf , and in your next pa- per let me know what he expects , either by the month or the quarter , for teaching : and where he keeps his place of rendezvous . I have a son too , whom I would fain have ...
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... speaking no more than we needs must , which has so miserably cur- tailed some of our words , that in familiar writings and conversations they often lose all but their first syllables , as in mob . rep . pos . incog . ' and the like ...
... speaking no more than we needs must , which has so miserably cur- tailed some of our words , that in familiar writings and conversations they often lose all but their first syllables , as in mob . rep . pos . incog . ' and the like ...
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... speak them . It is certain , the light talkative humour of the French has not a little infected their tongue , which might be shewn by many instances ; as the genius of the Italians , which is so much addicted to music and ceremony ...
... speak them . It is certain , the light talkative humour of the French has not a little infected their tongue , which might be shewn by many instances ; as the genius of the Italians , which is so much addicted to music and ceremony ...
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... speak to me , but you give me some occasion of coming out with one lie or other , that has neither wit , humour , prospect of interest , or any other mo- tive that I can think of in nature . The other day , when one was commending an ...
... speak to me , but you give me some occasion of coming out with one lie or other , that has neither wit , humour , prospect of interest , or any other mo- tive that I can think of in nature . The other day , when one was commending an ...
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第 123 頁 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
第 141 頁 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!
第 123 頁 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see, rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
第 126 頁 - ... waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
第 125 頁 - I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
第 217 頁 - 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.
第 122 頁 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on 'the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
第 217 頁 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
第 130 頁 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those* that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
第 122 頁 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.