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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... told him he had left as quit - rents upon the estate . The captain truly seems a courteous man , though 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 ...
... told him he had left as quit - rents upon the estate . The captain truly seems a courteous man , though 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 ...
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... told us the name of the person who lies interred , to launch out into his praises . This epitaph takes a quite contrary turn , having been made by the person himself some time before his death . " Hic jacet R. C. in expectatione diei ...
... told us the name of the person who lies interred , to launch out into his praises . This epitaph takes a quite contrary turn , having been made by the person himself some time before his death . " Hic jacet R. C. in expectatione diei ...
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... told her she must certainly die , she desired as well as she could , that all who were present except myself , might depart the room . She said she had nothing to say , for she was resigned , and I knew all she knew that concerned us in ...
... told her she must certainly die , she desired as well as she could , that all who were present except myself , might depart the room . She said she had nothing to say , for she was resigned , and I knew all she knew that concerned us in ...
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... told her he does not care a farthing for her . All I hope for is , that the fair lady will make use of the first light night to show B. T. she understands a marriage is not to be considered as a common bargain . T. No 523. THURSDAY ...
... told her he does not care a farthing for her . All I hope for is , that the fair lady will make use of the first light night to show B. T. she understands a marriage is not to be considered as a common bargain . T. No 523. THURSDAY ...
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... piquet , played two or three games , and drank tea . I should have told you that this was my second time of seeing her since marriage ; but before , she lived at the same town where I went to school ; so that the 60 No 527 . SPECTATOR .
... piquet , played two or three games , and drank tea . I should have told you that this was my second time of seeing her since marriage ; but before , she lived at the same town where I went to school ; so that the 60 No 527 . SPECTATOR .
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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.