The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Svazky 5–6T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... lives . This is the founda- tion of the acceptance which eloquence , music , and poetry , make in the world ; and I know not why de- votion , considered merely as an exaltation of our happiness , should not at least be so far regarded ...
... lives . This is the founda- tion of the acceptance which eloquence , music , and poetry , make in the world ; and I know not why de- votion , considered merely as an exaltation of our happiness , should not at least be so far regarded ...
Strana 13
... live any more years a maid , than she continues to be courted ? I am , & c . ' ' SIR , Aug. 15 , 1710 . ' I observe that the Postman of Saturday last , giving an account of the action in Spain , has this elegant turn of expression ...
... live any more years a maid , than she continues to be courted ? I am , & c . ' ' SIR , Aug. 15 , 1710 . ' I observe that the Postman of Saturday last , giving an account of the action in Spain , has this elegant turn of expression ...
Strana 31
... live without scandal ; and being under the common denomination of being such , men fear to meet their faults in those who are as agreeable as they are innocent . I take the Bully among men , and the Scold among women , to draw the ...
... live without scandal ; and being under the common denomination of being such , men fear to meet their faults in those who are as agreeable as they are innocent . I take the Bully among men , and the Scold among women , to draw the ...
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... lives , should take it in their heads to differ in their religion . N ° 221. THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 7 , 1710 . Sicut meus est mos , Nescio quid meditans nugarum , et totus in illis . Musing , as wont , on this and that , HOR . 1 Sat. ix ...
... lives , should take it in their heads to differ in their religion . N ° 221. THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 7 , 1710 . Sicut meus est mos , Nescio quid meditans nugarum , et totus in illis . Musing , as wont , on this and that , HOR . 1 Sat. ix ...
Strana 61
... live unmarried , as they often do now , because the goodness of a wife cannot be ensured to them ; but the loss of an estate is certain , and a man would never have the affliction of a worthless heir added to that of a bad wife . I am ...
... live unmarried , as they often do now , because the goodness of a wife cannot be ensured to them ; but the loss of an estate is certain , and a man would never have the affliction of a worthless heir added to that of a bad wife . I am ...
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Strana 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Strana 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Strana 31 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Strana 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Strana 214 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Strana 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Strana 10 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Strana 110 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach the organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure...
Strana 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Strana 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.