English Prose: Seventeenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1922 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison admirable ancient appear beauty Ben Jonson better Bishop blank verse body Burnet called character Charles II Christ Christian Church Church of England conscience conversation creatures death desire discourse divine Dryden E. K. CHAMBERS earth endeavour enemies England English Epicurus essays Euphuism father fire genius gentleman GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand happiness hath heart honour humour imagination Isaac Barrow Isaac Newton judge judgment kind king lady language learning liberty literary live look Lord mankind manner matter mind nation nature neighbour never observed occasion passion Pelasgi persons pleasure poet political prince prose reader reason religion sense sermons sometimes soul speak Spectator spirit style Tatler tell temper things Thomas Burnet Thomas Ellwood THOMAS SHERLOCK thou thought tion true truth verse virtue Whig whole words writing
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Página 525 - The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Página 320 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Página 524 - ... of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling 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. "
Página 159 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Página 523 - ... through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 144 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Página 370 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Página 86 - That if all men were of his mind, if possible, there is not one of these noblemen should have any longer a being in this town. Besides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his judge, calling you an ungodly villain, with many other such like vilifying terms, with which he hath bespattered most of the gentry of our town.
Página 163 - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Página 222 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another.