The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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Strana 3
... pieces of wit ( how remote soever they may appear at first sight from the foregoing description ) which upon examination will be found to agree with it . As true wit generally consists in this resemblance and congruity of ideas , false ...
... pieces of wit ( how remote soever they may appear at first sight from the foregoing description ) which upon examination will be found to agree with it . As true wit generally consists in this resemblance and congruity of ideas , false ...
Strana 6
... piece of wit of what kind soever escape them . I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry , who like those in architecture , not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to ...
... piece of wit of what kind soever escape them . I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry , who like those in architecture , not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to ...
Strana 10
... pieces of embroidery . The winds were filled with sighs and messages of distant lovers . As I was walk- ing to and fro in this enchanted wilderness , I could not forbear breaking out into soliloquies upon the several wonders which lay ...
... pieces of embroidery . The winds were filled with sighs and messages of distant lovers . As I was walk- ing to and fro in this enchanted wilderness , I could not forbear breaking out into soliloquies upon the several wonders which lay ...
Strana 20
... piece is a direct knave in his designs , and a clown in his language . Bellair is his admirer and friend ; in return for which , because he is forsooth a greater wit than his said friend , he thinks it reasonable to persuade him to ...
... piece is a direct knave in his designs , and a clown in his language . Bellair is his admirer and friend ; in return for which , because he is forsooth a greater wit than his said friend , he thinks it reasonable to persuade him to ...
Strana 21
... piece . But it is denied , that it is necessary to the character of a fine gentleman , that he should in that manner trample upon all order and decency . As for the character of Dorimant , it is more of a coxcomb than that of Fopling ...
... piece . But it is denied , that it is necessary to the character of a fine gentleman , that he should in that manner trample upon all order and decency . As for the character of Dorimant , it is more of a coxcomb than that of Fopling ...
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Strana 235 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Strana 282 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world : if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public...
Strana 233 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean...
Strana 236 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Strana 237 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother.
Strana 43 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Strana 138 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Strana 213 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction.
Strana 212 - Roger, found me out this gentleman who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is.
Strana 212 - Greek at his own table ; for which reason, he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.