The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... hear the lady propose her doubts , and to see the pains she is at to get over them .. I must not here omit a practice that is in use among the vainer part of our own sex , who will often ask a friend's advice in relation to a fortune ...
... hear the lady propose her doubts , and to see the pains she is at to get over them .. I must not here omit a practice that is in use among the vainer part of our own sex , who will often ask a friend's advice in relation to a fortune ...
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... hear a thou- sand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensi- ble of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics , where , after the ...
... hear a thou- sand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensi- ble of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics , where , after the ...
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... hear , I seem to move , And wander through the happy grove , Where smooth springs flow , and murm'ring breeze Wantons through the waving trees . ' SIR , СВЕЕСН . HAVING lately read your essay on The Pleasures of the Imagination , I was ...
... hear , I seem to move , And wander through the happy grove , Where smooth springs flow , and murm'ring breeze Wantons through the waving trees . ' SIR , СВЕЕСН . HAVING lately read your essay on The Pleasures of the Imagination , I was ...
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... hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and , when they run over his head , he is not disturbed at their noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he thinks it doubles his attention to ...
... hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and , when they run over his head , he is not disturbed at their noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he thinks it doubles his attention to ...
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... that we in the country hear so often repeated the word prerogative . That part of your law which is reserved in yourself , for the readier service and good of the public , slight men are eternally buzzing No 480 . 31 SPECTATOR .
... that we in the country hear so often repeated the word prerogative . That part of your law which is reserved in yourself , for the readier service and good of the public , slight men are eternally buzzing No 480 . 31 SPECTATOR .
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Page 302 - 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 60 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions...
Page 69 - In midst of dangers, fears, and death, Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more. My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Page 301 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 60 - ... and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Page 68 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Page 16 - It must have been a fine Genius for Gardening, that could have thought of forming such an unsightly Hollow into so beautiful an Area, and to have hit the Eye with so uncommon and agreeable a Scene as that which it is now wrought into. To give this particular Spot of Ground the greater Effect, they have made a very pleasing Contrast ; for as on one Side of the Walk you see this hollow Basin, with its several little Plantations lying so conveniently under the Eye of the Beholder ; on the other Side...
Page 189 - ... 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 of.
Page 68 - They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 195 - If after this we look into the several inward Perfections of Cunning and Sagacity, or what we generally call Instinct, we find them rising after the same manner, imperceptibly one above another, and receiving additional Improvements, according to the Species in which they are implanted. This Progress in Nature is so very gradual, that the most perfect of an inferior Species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which is immediately above it...