The British Essayists: RamblerT. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... secure it , and suffer the imagination to riot in the fruition of some possible good , till the time of obtaining it has slipped away . There would , however , be few enterprises of great labour or hazard undertaken , if we had not the ...
... secure it , and suffer the imagination to riot in the fruition of some possible good , till the time of obtaining it has slipped away . There would , however , be few enterprises of great labour or hazard undertaken , if we had not the ...
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... secure by a short forbearance , have sunk under his scythe , as they were posting down with their volumes in triumph to futurity . It was observable that some were destroyed by little and little , and others crushed for ever by a single ...
... secure by a short forbearance , have sunk under his scythe , as they were posting down with their volumes in triumph to futurity . It was observable that some were destroyed by little and little , and others crushed for ever by a single ...
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... secure them from unjust prejudices , perverse opi- nions , and incongruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly written , every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men , that the reader was in ...
... secure them from unjust prejudices , perverse opi- nions , and incongruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly written , every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men , that the reader was in ...
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... secure to our minds a state of tranquillity : for , though the boast of absolute inde- pendence is ridiculous and vain , yet a mean flexibility to every impulse , and a patient submission to the ty- ranny of casual troubles , is below ...
... secure to our minds a state of tranquillity : for , though the boast of absolute inde- pendence is ridiculous and vain , yet a mean flexibility to every impulse , and a patient submission to the ty- ranny of casual troubles , is below ...
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... secure him from neglect . ' No man is so much abstracted from common life , as not to feel a particular pleasure from the regard of the female world ; the candid writers of the first billet will not be offended , that my haste to ...
... secure him from neglect . ' No man is so much abstracted from common life , as not to feel a particular pleasure from the regard of the female world ; the candid writers of the first billet will not be offended , that my haste to ...
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Popular passages
Page 168 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 17 - But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly, should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects.
Page 30 - Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence, and that the plain was dusty and uneven, he resolved to pursue the new path, which he supposed only to make a few meanders, in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected he was not gaining ground.
Page 145 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 15 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Page 136 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 145 - Italian, the most mellifluous of all modern poetry, seems fully convinced of the unfitness of our language for smooth versification, and is therefore pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance : for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself in a long series of proper names, and introduces them where they add little but music to his poem : — The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El...
Page 41 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 154 - His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other light she needed none In that...
Page 155 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing. These were from without The growing miseries, which Adam saw Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade, To sorrow...