The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... particular pleasure . As we were sitting together , being the sole remain- ing members of our club , Sir Andrew gave me an account of the many busy scenes of life in which he had been engaged , and at the same time reckoned up to me ...
... particular pleasure . As we were sitting together , being the sole remain- ing members of our club , Sir Andrew gave me an account of the many busy scenes of life in which he had been engaged , and at the same time reckoned up to me ...
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... particular respect . Having maturely weighed these several particu- lars , with the many remonstrances that have been made to me on this subject , and considering how invidious an office I shall take upon me if I make the whole election ...
... particular respect . Having maturely weighed these several particu- lars , with the many remonstrances that have been made to me on this subject , and considering how invidious an office I shall take upon me if I make the whole election ...
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... particular by a certain ritual which I have by me , that contains all the ceremonies which are practised at the opening of the mouth of a cardinal . I have likewise examined the forms which were used of old by Pythagoras , when any of ...
... particular by a certain ritual which I have by me , that contains all the ceremonies which are practised at the opening of the mouth of a cardinal . I have likewise examined the forms which were used of old by Pythagoras , when any of ...
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... particular persons , spreads and lasts according to the merit of authors : and when it thus meets with a full success , changes its denomination , and is called fame . They who have happily arrived at this , are , even while they live ...
... particular persons , spreads and lasts according to the merit of authors : and when it thus meets with a full success , changes its denomination , and is called fame . They who have happily arrived at this , are , even while they live ...
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... particular character . It would be better if , when we light upon such a turn , we join it with something that circumscribes and bounds it to the qualities of our subject . He who gives his praise . in gross , will often appear either ...
... particular character . It would be better if , when we light upon such a turn , we join it with something that circumscribes and bounds it to the qualities of our subject . He who gives his praise . in gross , will often appear either ...
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acquainted agreeable Anacreon annis Miles antediluvian appear beautiful Blank body character Cicero consider conversation creatures daugh delight dervis desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes fancy Flamstead FRIDAY gentleman give glory hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar June 24 kind king lady letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Menander ment mind MONDAY nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person Peter Motteux pleased pleasure poet praise present Publius Syrus reader reason received Renatus Harris ROSCOMMON says secret Shalum short soul speak Spectator tell thing thor thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIRG virtue Waitfort WEDNESDAY whig whole widow words write young Zilpah
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...