The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... pleased , with- out any danger of the statute . That I may imitate these celebrated authors , and publish a paper which shall be more taking than or- dinary , I have here drawn up a very curious libel , in which a reader of penetration ...
... pleased , with- out any danger of the statute . That I may imitate these celebrated authors , and publish a paper which shall be more taking than or- dinary , I have here drawn up a very curious libel , in which a reader of penetration ...
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... pleased , he would give me a lesson upon the gridiron . He then informed me , that he had added two bars to the gridiron , in order to give it a greater compass of sound ; and I perceived he was as well pleased with the invention , as ...
... pleased , he would give me a lesson upon the gridiron . He then informed me , that he had added two bars to the gridiron , in order to give it a greater compass of sound ; and I perceived he was as well pleased with the invention , as ...
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... pleased with these my papers , since I find they have encouraged several men of learning and wit to become my correspondents : I yesterday received the following essay against quacks , which I shall here communicate to my readers for ...
... pleased with these my papers , since I find they have encouraged several men of learning and wit to become my correspondents : I yesterday received the following essay against quacks , which I shall here communicate to my readers for ...
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... pleased to be very merry , as you imagine , with us widows : and you seem to ground your satire on our receiving consolation so soon after the death of our dears , and the number we are pleased to admit for our companions ; but you ...
... pleased to be very merry , as you imagine , with us widows : and you seem to ground your satire on our receiving consolation so soon after the death of our dears , and the number we are pleased to admit for our companions ; but you ...
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... pleased , which was but reasonable for the trouble she was at for my good , I was not to be so censorious as to dislike fa- miliarity and kindness between near relations . I was too great a coward to contend , but not so igno- rant a ...
... pleased , which was but reasonable for the trouble she was at for my good , I was not to be so censorious as to dislike fa- miliarity and kindness between near relations . I was too great a coward to contend , but not so igno- rant a ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirer Æneid Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty body consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth endeavour entertain eternity eyes faculties fancy fear fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glory Gregorio Leti Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa Hockley-in-the-Hole honour humour husband imagination kind king lady light lived lives single look love-casuist lover mankind manner marriage married mind MONDAY nature naufraga never night NOVEMBER 24 observed occasion OCTOBER 27 ourselves OVID pain paper passion periwig persons pleased pleasure present pretty quæ quaqua reader reason received rise fast roundhead scene secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR steward sure tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah Tom Tyler town truth vanity verses VIRG virtue Waitfort walk WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whig whole widow wife wonder words write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 238 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Seite 238 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword.\ Thus am I doubly arm'd ; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Seite 66 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 184 - What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? was the result of a laudable ambition.
Seite 146 - Pleasure to look at, twas Music to hear. But now she is absent, I walk by its Side, And still, as it murmurs, do nothing but chide: 'Must you be so cheerful, while I go in pain? Peace there with your bubbling, and hear me complain.
Seite 58 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Seite 256 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Seite 38 - I say, might give itself up to that happiness which is at hand, considering that it is so very near, and that it would last so very long. But when the choice we actually have before us is this, whether we will...
Seite 194 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Seite 146 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...