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 - English essays |
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... gave me an opportunity to hold up a crown to her coachman , who gave me the signal , that he would hurry on , and make no haste , as you know the way is when they favour a chase . By his many kind blunders , driving against other ...
... gave me an opportunity to hold up a crown to her coachman , who gave me the signal , that he would hurry on , and make no haste , as you know the way is when they favour a chase . By his many kind blunders , driving against other ...
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... gave it me ; and I doubt not but you will find it the soul of an happy self - loving dame , that takes all the admiration she can meet with , and returns none of it in love to her admirers . " 66 DEAR JENNY , " I am glad to find you are ...
... gave it me ; and I doubt not but you will find it the soul of an happy self - loving dame , that takes all the admiration she can meet with , and returns none of it in love to her admirers . " 66 DEAR JENNY , " I am glad to find you are ...
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... gave them partners of such of my own sex who most en- vied me . " My way is , when any man who is my admirer pretends to give himself airs of merit , as at this time a certain gentleman you know did , to mortify him by favouring in his ...
... gave them partners of such of my own sex who most en- vied me . " My way is , when any man who is my admirer pretends to give himself airs of merit , as at this time a certain gentleman you know did , to mortify him by favouring in his ...
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... gave one to reign by his permission , but he gave to another also to reign by his grace . All the circumstances of the illustrious life of our prince seem to have conspired to make him the check and bridle of tyranny ; for his mind has ...
... gave one to reign by his permission , but he gave to another also to reign by his grace . All the circumstances of the illustrious life of our prince seem to have conspired to make him the check and bridle of tyranny ; for his mind has ...
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... gave us such an idea of our good old friend , that upon the reading of it there was not a dry eye in the club . Sir Andrew , opening the book , found it to be a collection of acts of par- liament . There was in particular the Act of Uni ...
... gave us such an idea of our good old friend , that upon the reading of it there was not a dry eye in the club . Sir Andrew , opening the book , found it to be a collection of acts of par- liament . There was in particular the Act of Uni ...
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Page 13 - Upon his coming home, the first complaint he made was, that he had lost his roast-beef stomach, not being able to touch a sirloin, which was served up according to custom ; and you know he used to take great delight in it. From that time forward he grew worse and worse, but still kept a good heart to the last. Indeed we were once in great hope of his recovery, upon a kind message that was sent him from the widow lady whom he had made love to the forty last years of his life ; but this only proved...
Page 128 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 249 - 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.
Page 14 - He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of. It would have gone to your heart to have heard the moans the dumb creature made on the day of my master's death. He has never joyed himself since; no more has any of us.
Page 128 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 201 - 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,
Page 127 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.
Page 123 - The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike beech ; the ash for nothing ill; The fruitful olive • and the platane round ; The carver holme; the maple seldom inward sound.
Page 14 - When my old master saw him a little before his death, he shook him by the hand, and wished him joy of the estate which was falling to him, desiring him only to make a good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond...
Page 221 - The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features: one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one.