The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, כרך 31754 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 52
עמוד
... Virtues . 1 IT gives a pleafing Profpect to your Friends , that is to fay , to the Friends of your Country , that you have paffed through the Highest Offices , at an Age when others ufually do but form to themselves the Hopes of them ...
... Virtues . 1 IT gives a pleafing Profpect to your Friends , that is to fay , to the Friends of your Country , that you have paffed through the Highest Offices , at an Age when others ufually do but form to themselves the Hopes of them ...
עמוד 10
... Virtue , and partake of many Gifts of Fortune and Power that I was never born to . There is nothing in particular in which I fo much rejoice as the Deliverance of good and generous Spirits out of Dangers , Difficulties and Diftreffes ...
... Virtue , and partake of many Gifts of Fortune and Power that I was never born to . There is nothing in particular in which I fo much rejoice as the Deliverance of good and generous Spirits out of Dangers , Difficulties and Diftreffes ...
עמוד 11
... Virtue rewarded : Indeed , were we able to view a Man in the whole Circle of his Existence , we fhould have the Satisfaction of seeing it close with Hap- piness or Mifery , according to his proper Merit : But though our View of him is ...
... Virtue rewarded : Indeed , were we able to view a Man in the whole Circle of his Existence , we fhould have the Satisfaction of seeing it close with Hap- piness or Mifery , according to his proper Merit : But though our View of him is ...
עמוד 34
... Virtue . I would undertake to find out all the Perfons of Senfe and Breeding by the Effect of a fingle Sentence , and to distin- guish a Gentleman as much by his Laugh , as his Bow . When we fee the Footman and his Lord diverted by the ...
... Virtue . I would undertake to find out all the Perfons of Senfe and Breeding by the Effect of a fingle Sentence , and to distin- guish a Gentleman as much by his Laugh , as his Bow . When we fee the Footman and his Lord diverted by the ...
עמוד 35
... Virtue were deservedly placed at the Head of Mankind : But , alas ! Pleasures of this Nature are not frequently to be met with on the English Stage . THE Athenians , at a Time when they were the moft polite , as well as the most ...
... Virtue were deservedly placed at the Head of Mankind : But , alas ! Pleasures of this Nature are not frequently to be met with on the English Stage . THE Athenians , at a Time when they were the moft polite , as well as the most ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 283 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which...
עמוד 284 - ... departure. Who can have lived in an army, and in a serious hour reflect upon the many gay and agreeable men that might long have flourished in the arts of peace, and not join with the imprecations of the fatherless and widow on the tyrant to whose ambition they fell sacrifices...
עמוד 283 - The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo, and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken away by any future application.
עמוד 172 - Postman, and that he would take two or three turns to the other end of the town before his neighbours were up, to see if there were any Dutch mails come in. He had a wife and several children, but was much more inquisitive to know what passed in Poland than in his own family, and was in greater pain and anxiety of mind for king Augustus's welfare than that of his nearest relations.
עמוד 283 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
עמוד 282 - ... cast a melancholy thought or two after those with whom, perhaps, we have indulged ourselves in whole nights of mirth and jollity.
עמוד 134 - Jupiter as he sat upon his throne, and the other on his left. The first was filled with all the blessings, and the other with all the calamities, of human life. Jupiter, in the...
עמוד 13 - ... height upon such a range of rocks, as would have dashed her into ten thousand pieces had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me! when I awaked, equally transported and astonished, to see myself drawn out of an affliction which, the very moment before, appeared to me altogether inextricable.
עמוד 39 - ... several days with great toil and uneasiness, and without the necessary refreshments of food and sleep. The only relief they met with, was in a river that ran through the bottom of the valley on a bed of golden sand. They often drank of...
עמוד 153 - The memory of an old visiting lady is so filled with gloves, silks, and ribbands, that I can look upon it as nothing else but a toy-shop. A matron of my acquaintance, complaining of her daughter's vanity, was observing, that she had all of a...