The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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Seite vii
... Marriage happy - the Flitch of Bacon ..... 608. List of Persons who demanded the Flitch of Bacon ...... 609. Letters , on the improper Dress of young Clergy- men - On Antipathies - Against Embroidery .. 610. Applause of Men not to be ...
... Marriage happy - the Flitch of Bacon ..... 608. List of Persons who demanded the Flitch of Bacon ...... 609. Letters , on the improper Dress of young Clergy- men - On Antipathies - Against Embroidery .. 610. Applause of Men not to be ...
Seite 61
... married in the 15th year of her age to Sir Simon Waddle knight , aged threescore and twelve , by whom she had twins nine months after his decease . In the 55th year of her age she was married to James Spindle , esq . a youth of one ...
... married in the 15th year of her age to Sir Simon Waddle knight , aged threescore and twelve , by whom she had twins nine months after his decease . In the 55th year of her age she was married to James Spindle , esq . a youth of one ...
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... marriage , and engross the whole male world to themselves . 66 They are obliged , when any one makes love to a member of the society , to communicate his name , at which time the whole assembly sit upon his repu- tation , person ...
... marriage , and engross the whole male world to themselves . 66 They are obliged , when any one makes love to a member of the society , to communicate his name , at which time the whole assembly sit upon his repu- tation , person ...
Seite 71
... married to a very honest gentleman that is exceedingly good - natured , and , at the same time , very choleric . There is no standing before him when he is in a passion ; but as soon as it is over , he is the best humoured creature in ...
... married to a very honest gentleman that is exceedingly good - natured , and , at the same time , very choleric . There is no standing before him when he is in a passion ; but as soon as it is over , he is the best humoured creature in ...
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... marry , but has not yet been asked by the man she could like . She usually admits her hum- ble admirers to an audience or two ; but after she has once given them denial , will never see them more . I am assured by a female relation ...
... marry , but has not yet been asked by the man she could like . She usually admits her hum- ble admirers to an audience or two ; but after she has once given them denial , will never see them more . I am assured by a female relation ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 340 - 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.
Seite 340 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 134 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 156 - 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 188 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.
Seite 81 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 198 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Seite 102 - I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Seite 33 - I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued friendship, than I should be of the fame of being thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing. I remember when I finished The Tender Husband, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished, as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of The Monument, in memory of our friendship.
Seite 122 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...