The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... observed the gentleman you know of fall into the same way , and imitate as well as he could the despised Fanfly . I cannot well give you , who are so grave a country lady , the idea of the joy we have when we see a stubborn heart ...
... observed the gentleman you know of fall into the same way , and imitate as well as he could the despised Fanfly . I cannot well give you , who are so grave a country lady , the idea of the joy we have when we see a stubborn heart ...
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... observation ; and whoever reads the history of the Irish rebellion , and the cruelties which ensued thereupon , will be sufficiently con- vinced to what rage poor ignorants may be worked up by those who profess holiness , and become in ...
... observation ; and whoever reads the history of the Irish rebellion , and the cruelties which ensued thereupon , will be sufficiently con- vinced to what rage poor ignorants may be worked up by those who profess holiness , and become in ...
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... observe and grasp the occasion . À prince , who from- T. Gloria- -Fuit Ilium , et ingens VIRG . Æn . ii . 325 . Troy is no more , and Ilium was a town . - DRYDEN . N ° 517. THURSDAY , OCTOBER 23 , 1712 . Heu pietas ! heu prisca fides ...
... observe and grasp the occasion . À prince , who from- T. Gloria- -Fuit Ilium , et ingens VIRG . Æn . ii . 325 . Troy is no more , and Ilium was a town . - DRYDEN . N ° 517. THURSDAY , OCTOBER 23 , 1712 . Heu pietas ! heu prisca fides ...
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... observations and inquiries , it is amazing to consider the infinity of animals with which it is stocked . Every part of matter is peopled ; every green leaf swarms with inhabitants . There is scarce a single humour in the body of a man ...
... observations and inquiries , it is amazing to consider the infinity of animals with which it is stocked . Every part of matter is peopled ; every green leaf swarms with inhabitants . There is scarce a single humour in the body of a man ...
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... observation , that matter is only made as the basis and support of animals , and that there is no more of the one than what is necessary for the existence of the other . Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature , that it seems ...
... observation , that matter is only made as the basis and support of animals , and that there is no more of the one than what is necessary for the existence of the other . Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature , that it seems ...
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Page 118 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Page 117 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, 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 12 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Page 197 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Page 118 - 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 113 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to 'small purpose yron wedges made; Those be unquiet thoughts, that carefull minds invade.
Page 118 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 202 - 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.
Page 228 - 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 119 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?