The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. 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], 1807 |
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... less time he spends in cere- mony the better ; and he must be a very silly fellow indeed , who stands shuffling and apologizing , when he ought cither to warn people of their danger , or inform them of their good fortune : but where ...
... less time he spends in cere- mony the better ; and he must be a very silly fellow indeed , who stands shuffling and apologizing , when he ought cither to warn people of their danger , or inform them of their good fortune : but where ...
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... less than his friend's , still it is his interest to give him the ap- probation he deserves : if greater or equal , because the higher his glory rises , whom you equal or excel , the more considerable yours must necessarily be : if less ...
... less than his friend's , still it is his interest to give him the ap- probation he deserves : if greater or equal , because the higher his glory rises , whom you equal or excel , the more considerable yours must necessarily be : if less ...
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... less pitied than they ought to be . Now a Damper will tell you that he is consulting such a man's good , and lowering his vanity , when he is sporting with his feelings , and will take merit to himself for the discipline he gives him ...
... less pitied than they ought to be . Now a Damper will tell you that he is consulting such a man's good , and lowering his vanity , when he is sporting with his feelings , and will take merit to himself for the discipline he gives him ...
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... less a personage than almighty Love himself : the metre was heroic , and many of the thoughts displayed a juvenile fancy and wild originality ; the action was not altogether uninteresting , nor ill . managed , and victory for a while ...
... less a personage than almighty Love himself : the metre was heroic , and many of the thoughts displayed a juvenile fancy and wild originality ; the action was not altogether uninteresting , nor ill . managed , and victory for a while ...
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... less can I describe the stroke of pity and surprise , which her emotion gave me . It was evident she alluded to something that had occurred since the reading of the poem ; I recollected she was absent all the latter part of the evening ...
... less can I describe the stroke of pity and surprise , which her emotion gave me . It was evident she alluded to something that had occurred since the reading of the poem ; I recollected she was absent all the latter part of the evening ...
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Página 255 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, — senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a Christian is?
Página 28 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean, There, where your argosies ' with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Página 205 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Página 179 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Página 336 - I saw the apparition move from the bed side, and clap up against the wall that divided their room and mine. I went and stood directly against it within my arm's length of it, and asked it, in the name of God, what it was, that made it come disturbing of us ? I stood some time expecting an answer and receiving none, and thinking it might be some fellow hid in the room to fright me, I put out my arm to feel it, and my hand seemingly went through the body of it, and felt no manner of substance till...
Página 74 - Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis, and dull Aretine But coldly imitated. Then, my glasses Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse And multiply the figures, as I walk Naked between my succubae. My mists I'll have of perfume, vapour'd 'bout the room, To lose ourselves in...
Página 178 - Tis (let me see) three years and more, (October next it will be four) Since HARLEY bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend ; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that ; As, "What's-o'elock?" And, «How's the wind!" " Whose chariot's that we left behind?
Página 74 - I'll go look A little, how it heightens. [Exit. Mam. Do.— My shirts I'll have of taffeta-sarsnet, soft and light As cobwebs ; and for all my other raiment, It shall be such as might provoke the Persian, Were he to teach the world riot anew. My gloves of fishes and birds' skins, perfumed With gums of paradise, and eastern air — Sur.
Página 196 - ... reproach, who is a stranger to the guilt that is implied in it ? or, subject himself to the penalty, when he knows he has never committed the crime ? This is a piece of fortitude, which every one owes to his own innocence, and without which it is impossible for a man of any merit, or figure, to live at peace with himself, in a country that abounds with wit and liberty.
Página 263 - What is there in France to be learned more than in England, but falsehood in friendship, perfect slovenry, and to love no man but for my pleasure ? I have known some that have continued there by the space of half a dozen years, and when they came home, they have hid a little weerish lean face under a broad French hat, kept a terrible coil with the dust in the street in their long cloaks of grey paper, and spoken English strangely.