Select British Classics, Том 34J. Conrad, 1803 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 40
Стр. 26
... taste , by mistake , a root that had been sent him from the Indies : it was a most subtle poison , to which his experience in British sim- ples knew no antidote . Immediately upon his death , a neighbouring gentleman who had his eye ...
... taste , by mistake , a root that had been sent him from the Indies : it was a most subtle poison , to which his experience in British sim- ples knew no antidote . Immediately upon his death , a neighbouring gentleman who had his eye ...
Стр. 35
... taste in trifles . Thoughtless man ! ( have I sometimes said to myself , when the melan- choly mood was on ) how blind is he to futurity ! lit- tle do these flutterers think , while their summers are dancing away in dangling to Ranelagh ...
... taste in trifles . Thoughtless man ! ( have I sometimes said to myself , when the melan- choly mood was on ) how blind is he to futurity ! lit- tle do these flutterers think , while their summers are dancing away in dangling to Ranelagh ...
Стр. 39
... taste in gardening are , in my judgment , excellent in their kind ; and so indeed are those upon architecture , as far as they go : but methinks you have not carried your observations quite far enough ; nor have you any where remarked ...
... taste in gardening are , in my judgment , excellent in their kind ; and so indeed are those upon architecture , as far as they go : but methinks you have not carried your observations quite far enough ; nor have you any where remarked ...
Стр. 40
... taste raises at an immode- rate expence a column or turret in his garden , for no other purpose than the generous one of giving delight and wonder to travellers ; and the ungrateful public call it his Folly . Nay , were her late Majesty ...
... taste raises at an immode- rate expence a column or turret in his garden , for no other purpose than the generous one of giving delight and wonder to travellers ; and the ungrateful public call it his Folly . Nay , were her late Majesty ...
Стр. 49
... taste , yet as they are intended for public benefit , and may contain some useful hints and informations , I shall present them to my readers without farther preface . To Mr. Fitz - Adam . SIR , HIS Majesty having frequently recommended ...
... taste , yet as they are intended for public benefit , and may contain some useful hints and informations , I shall present them to my readers without farther preface . To Mr. Fitz - Adam . SIR , HIS Majesty having frequently recommended ...
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
acquaintance admiration amongst amusements appear assure attention beauty Belphegor Berkshire called champaign character chuse Clarinda confess considered contrary correspondent crowd cuckold daugh desire doubt dress drink effeminacy endeavour entertainment Epaminondas eyes false friend Farinelli farther fashion favour Fitz-Adam folly fortune French frequently gentlemen give happy Harlequin hearer heart hint honour hope humble servant husband Hyde-park lady language late least less letter lived look lord Ludgate hill mankind manner master means ment metropolis mind mistress moral nature nerally never obliged observed occasion opinion paper particular passion perhaps person Plato pleasure polite present pretty racter readers reason received rience romantic love seems shew sure talked taste tell thing thought THURSDAY tincture tion town transubstantiation treme Truncheon truth turn virtue whole wine woman words
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 252 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Стр. 36 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Стр. 190 - Roger's; it is usual in all other places, that servants fly from the parts of the house through which their master is passing; on the contrary, here they industriously place themselves in his way; and it is on both sides, as it were, understood as a visit, when the servants appear without calling.
Стр. 280 - ... gentleman two letters of excuses, which with less wit than the epistles of Voiture, had ten times more natural and easy politeness in the turn of their expression. In the postscript, he appointed a meeting at Tyburn at twelve...
Стр. 205 - You mistake me (answered my friend); every member of our club has the privilege of bringing one friend along with him, who is by no means thereby...
Стр. 262 - All words, good or bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together, insomuch that the injudicious reader may speak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly as he pleases, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. It must be owned that our language is at present in a state of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it.
Стр. 103 - And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Стр. 176 - ... weaning his heart from the immoderate love of earthly things, and teaching him to revere the gods, and to place his whole trust and happiness in their government and protection.
Стр. 72 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Стр. 206 - As I found that my friend would have taken a refusal ill, I told him that for this once I would certainly attend him to the club, but desired him to give me previously the outlines of the characters of the sitting members, that I might know how to behave myself properly. "Your precaution (said he) is a prudent one, and I will make you so well acquainted with them beforehand, that you shall not seem a stranger when among them. You must know then that our club consists of at least forty members when...