Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 pages |
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... fhould have employed thofe affiduous and painful labours , which all the Ancients take fo much notice of ; for , beyond doubt , no- thing is of more importance . To fuperfi- cial thinkers , the management of the voice and gefture , in ...
... fhould have employed thofe affiduous and painful labours , which all the Ancients take fo much notice of ; for , beyond doubt , no- thing is of more importance . To fuperfi- cial thinkers , the management of the voice and gefture , in ...
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... fhould correfpond with the nature of the difcourfe , and when no particular emotion is expreffed , a serious and manly look is always the beft . The eyes fhould never be fixed clofe on any one object , but move eafily round the audience ...
... fhould correfpond with the nature of the difcourfe , and when no particular emotion is expreffed , a serious and manly look is always the beft . The eyes fhould never be fixed clofe on any one object , but move eafily round the audience ...
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... fhould efcape , but that they should fink laft ; and with this pro- mife every one was fatisfied , though he laughed at the reft for feeming to believe it . Hope , indeed , apparently mocked the credulity of her companions ; for , in ...
... fhould efcape , but that they should fink laft ; and with this pro- mife every one was fatisfied , though he laughed at the reft for feeming to believe it . Hope , indeed , apparently mocked the credulity of her companions ; for , in ...
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... fhould endeavour to fecure to our- felves the pleasures and gratifications of a life which is uncertain and precarious , and , at its utmost length , of a very inconfider- able duration ; or to fecure to ourfelves the pleasures of a ...
... fhould endeavour to fecure to our- felves the pleasures and gratifications of a life which is uncertain and precarious , and , at its utmost length , of a very inconfider- able duration ; or to fecure to ourfelves the pleasures of a ...
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... fhould be fent to school , very positively told him , that the would not fuffer a fine child to be ruined ; that he never knew any boys at a grammar - fchool , that could come into a room without blushing , or fit at the table without ...
... fhould be fent to school , very positively told him , that the would not fuffer a fine child to be ruined ; that he never knew any boys at a grammar - fchool , that could come into a room without blushing , or fit at the table without ...
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Popular passages
Page 12 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Page 32 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Page 180 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Page 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Page 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Page 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Page 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Page 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...