Select British Classics, Volume 3J. Conrad, 1804 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 7
Page 20
... fancied themselves our equals , and a continuance of our humanity might probably have ren- dered them insolent ; but the imperious tone , menaces , and blows , at once changed their sensations and their ideas : their ears and shoulders ...
... fancied themselves our equals , and a continuance of our humanity might probably have ren- dered them insolent ; but the imperious tone , menaces , and blows , at once changed their sensations and their ideas : their ears and shoulders ...
Page 21
shrink back into servitude , from which they had for some moments fancied themselves disengaged . The enthusiasm of liberty an Englishman feels is ne- ver so strong , as when presented by such prospects as these . I must own , in all my ...
shrink back into servitude , from which they had for some moments fancied themselves disengaged . The enthusiasm of liberty an Englishman feels is ne- ver so strong , as when presented by such prospects as these . I must own , in all my ...
Page 25
... fancied by the same artist who dresses the three battalions of guards . But not only ladies of every shape and complexion , but of every age too , are possessed of this unaccount- able passion of dressing in the same manner . A lady of ...
... fancied by the same artist who dresses the three battalions of guards . But not only ladies of every shape and complexion , but of every age too , are possessed of this unaccount- able passion of dressing in the same manner . A lady of ...
Page 37
... fancied he had loved her , and so all was well again . When fortune wore her angriest look , when he at last fell into the power of his most deadly enemy , cardinal Mazarine , and was confined a close prisoner in the castle of ...
... fancied he had loved her , and so all was well again . When fortune wore her angriest look , when he at last fell into the power of his most deadly enemy , cardinal Mazarine , and was confined a close prisoner in the castle of ...
Page 46
... fancied , just nicked the time , for he came in as the cloth was laying . He took a chair without being de- sired , and talked for some time without being attended to . He assured the company , that nothing procured so good an appetite ...
... fancied , just nicked the time , for he came in as the cloth was laying . He took a chair without being de- sired , and talked for some time without being attended to . He assured the company , that nothing procured so good an appetite ...
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance admiration Alcander amusement appearance assured attempt attended beauty Bidderman character Charles II coachman continue creature custom dæmon diction distress dress effeminacy eloquence endeavour enemy English English language entertainment esteem expect eyes fame fancied favour feel figure fortune friends friendship frugality generosity genius gentleman give glory hand happy humour Hypasia imagination imitate Italy justice king king of Prussia labour lady language laugh laws learning Lysippus mankind manner master Maupertuis merit Metastasio mind miser Montesquieu nature nerally never nosegay obliged observed occasion Olinda once orator passion perceived perhaps perly philosopher pleased pleasure poet polite poor portunity possessed praise present pride racter regard replied republic of letters reputation ridicule Sabinus Saracens seems seldom Septimius society speak spider style Sweden taste thing thought tion truth virtue Voltaire vulgar whole writer
Popular passages
Page 70 - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Page 71 - ... to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance might give the captive strength sufficient to get loose : the manner then is to wait patiently till, by ineffectual and impotent struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then...
Page 76 - What a gloom hangs all around ! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. " There will come a time, when this temporary solitude may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room.
Page 69 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was, with incredible diligence, completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Page 70 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb.
Page 71 - I once put a wasp into the net; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Page 42 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Page 78 - Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Page 72 - The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Page 76 - To the same. 5HE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy, are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person.