The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 15-16 |
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... turn the hare , to bay the deer , And wheel the courser in his mid career . Ah ! had he there restrain'd his tyrant hand ! Let me , ye powers , an humbler wreath demand : No pomps I ask , which crowns and sceptres yield ; Nor dang'rous ...
... turn the hare , to bay the deer , And wheel the courser in his mid career . Ah ! had he there restrain'd his tyrant hand ! Let me , ye powers , an humbler wreath demand : No pomps I ask , which crowns and sceptres yield ; Nor dang'rous ...
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... turn , as is taken up in any composition , though the piece he writes is not foreign to that of his natural inclination . For it is a great step towards gaining upon the pas- sions , that there is a delicacy in the choice of their ...
... turn , as is taken up in any composition , though the piece he writes is not foreign to that of his natural inclination . For it is a great step towards gaining upon the pas- sions , that there is a delicacy in the choice of their ...
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... turns obey ; Or if he stoops on earth , great princes burn , Sicken on thrones , and wreathed with laurels mourn . Th ' inferior powers o'er hearts inferior reign , And pierce the rural fair , or homely swain . Here Love's imperial pomp ...
... turns obey ; Or if he stoops on earth , great princes burn , Sicken on thrones , and wreathed with laurels mourn . Th ' inferior powers o'er hearts inferior reign , And pierce the rural fair , or homely swain . Here Love's imperial pomp ...
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... turns , her image falls , And a new Venus dances on the walls . Now while she did her spotless form survey , Pleased with Love's empire , and almighty sway : She spied her son , and , fired with eager joy , Sprung forwards , and ...
... turns , her image falls , And a new Venus dances on the walls . Now while she did her spotless form survey , Pleased with Love's empire , and almighty sway : She spied her son , and , fired with eager joy , Sprung forwards , and ...
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... turn it into ridicule . The light in which these points should be exposed to the view of one who is prejudiced against the names religion , church , priest , and the like , is to consider the clergy as so many philosophers , the ...
... turn it into ridicule . The light in which these points should be exposed to the view of one who is prejudiced against the names religion , church , priest , and the like , is to consider the clergy as so many philosophers , the ...
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Page 189 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 189 - Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 189 - Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Page 189 - Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ' ' The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Page 19 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Page xxiv - He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best: there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.
Page 77 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Page 12 - Yet by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind: which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm. him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material...
Page 257 - To those who have skill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced to correctness. Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarely been attainable; but happily there remains the original copy of the Iliad...
Page 277 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.