Select British Classics, Volumen17J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... pretty fellow that dwells so much in her thoughts , asks her very gravely , what she would advise her to do in a case of so much difficulty . Why else should Melissa , who had not a thousand pounds in the world , go into every quarter ...
... pretty fellow that dwells so much in her thoughts , asks her very gravely , what she would advise her to do in a case of so much difficulty . Why else should Melissa , who had not a thousand pounds in the world , go into every quarter ...
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... pretty fancies , and I am sure , if you saw him , you would like him . He is a very good scholar , and can talk Latin as fast as English . I wish you could but see him dance . Now you must understand , B 2 THE SPECTATOR . 17 I must not ...
... pretty fancies , and I am sure , if you saw him , you would like him . He is a very good scholar , and can talk Latin as fast as English . I wish you could but see him dance . Now you must understand , B 2 THE SPECTATOR . 17 I must not ...
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... pretty gentlemen , we have conceived the motto for the house in the learned language . There is to be a picture over the door with a looking - glass and a dress- ing chair in the middle of it : then on 30 THE SPECTATOR .
... pretty gentlemen , we have conceived the motto for the house in the learned language . There is to be a picture over the door with a looking - glass and a dress- ing chair in the middle of it : then on 30 THE SPECTATOR .
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... pretty sounding manner : Adeste , O quotquot sunt , Veneres , Gratia , Cupidines , En vobis adsunt in promptu Faces , vincula , spicula ; Hinc eligite , sumite , regite . All ye Venus's , Graces , and Cupids attend : See prepar'd to ...
... pretty sounding manner : Adeste , O quotquot sunt , Veneres , Gratia , Cupidines , En vobis adsunt in promptu Faces , vincula , spicula ; Hinc eligite , sumite , regite . All ye Venus's , Graces , and Cupids attend : See prepar'd to ...
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... pretty ..... This puts me in mind of what I have somewhere read in the admired memoirs of the famous Cervantes , where , while ho- nest Sancho Pança is putting some necessary humble question concerning Rozinante , his supper , or his ...
... pretty ..... This puts me in mind of what I have somewhere read in the admired memoirs of the famous Cervantes , where , while ho- nest Sancho Pança is putting some necessary humble question concerning Rozinante , his supper , or his ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admiration agreeable Anacreon appear beauty black tower body Britomartis cerning character Cicero city of London club coach consider conversation countenance creatures daugh death desire discourse divine drachmas dream endeavour entertainment epigram excellent eyes fancy favour fortune gentleman give Great-Britain greatest hand happiness head hear heard heart honest Honeycomb honour hope human humble servant humour husband imagine kind lady learned letter live look manner marriage married matter Menander mentioned mind nature never obliged observed occasion OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond pleased pleasure Plutarch present pretty Procris racter reader reason Rechteren RICHARD STEELE sense September 26 shew sorrow soul speak SPECTATOR tell thing thou thought tion told town Tunbridge VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous whole wife woman women words worthy write young
Pasajes populares
Página 158 - Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial spirits in bondage, nor the abyss Long under darkness cover.
Página 307 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. 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...
Página 306 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 308 - 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...
Página 76 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 78 - My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Página 69 - Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Página 99 - If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
Página 261 - When you glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as you can : for even yet will he far exceed. And when you exalt him, put forth all your strength and be not weary; for you can never go far enough.
Página 100 - They are, indeed, so disseminated through all the trading parts of the world, that they are become the instruments by which the most distant nations converse with one another, and by which mankind are knit together in a general correspondence. They are like the pegs and nails in a great building, which, though they are but little valued in themselves, are absolutely necessary to keep the whole frame together.