The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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acquaintance ADVENTURER affection Almerine ancient appearance bagnio beauty became brothel Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt Crito danger daughter Demosthenes Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful dress DRYDEN endeavour enjoy equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently Gonerill gratify happiness hast Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope imagination impatient increase insensibility kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery morning nature neral ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perpetual pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced proportion racter reason received reflected SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion solicitous Soliman solitude sometimes soon Sophocles suffered Sycorax Telephus tenderness thee things thou thought tion truth TUESDAY utmost VIRG virtue wish wretched writer Xerxes
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Page 262 - remarks, that Socrates was said to have brought philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men : " And I," says he, " shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables, and coffee-houses.
Page 161 - readers that can peruse his answer without tears ; -Pray do not mock me : I am a very foolish, fond old man, Fourscore and upward ; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful : for I am mainly ignorant What place this
Page 104 - as age, wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely ! Then suddenly he addresses Gonerill and Regan in the severest terms and with the bitterest threats : No, you unnatural hags ! I will have such revenges on you both—
Page 14 - a spirit? Lord, how it looks about ! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit. Her imagining that as he was so beautiful he must necessarily be one of her father's aerial agents is a stroke of nature worthy admiration : as are likewise her entreaties to her father not
Page 11 - where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts; Show thee a jay's nest; and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmazet. I'll bring thee To clustering filberds; and sometimes I'll get thee Young sea-malls from the rock
Page 120 - condition, and worthy to be written in characters of gold in the closet of every monarch upon earth : O ! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp ! Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; That
Page 157 - There's your press money. That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper : draw me a clothier's yard. Look, look, a mouse ! Peace, peace : this piece of toasted cheese will do it." The art of our poet is transcendant in thus making a passage, that even borders on burlesque, strongly expressive of the madness
Page 36 - and majestic, is unnatural and far fetched; May thy billows roll ashore The beryl and the golden ore : May thy lofty head be crown'd With many a tower and terras round; And here and there, thy banks upon, With groves of myrrh and cinnamon!
Page 101 - am sure, is kind and comfortable. When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails She'll flay thy wolfish visage He was, however, mistaken ; for the first object he encounters in the castle of the Earl of Gloucester, whither
Page 161 - Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. When Cordelia in great affliction asks him if he knows her, he replies, You are a spirit,