The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 - English essays |
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... town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning rakes , very unlike the seeming sobriety of those bound for Stocks - market . Nothing remarkable happened in our ...
... town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning rakes , very unlike the seeming sobriety of those bound for Stocks - market . Nothing remarkable happened in our ...
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... town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady was conveniently lost , with notice from her coachman to ours to make off , and he should hear where she went . This chace was now at end ; and the fellow who drove her came to ...
... town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady was conveniently lost , with notice from her coachman to ours to make off , and he should hear where she went . This chace was now at end ; and the fellow who drove her came to ...
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... town . If you are alone with him in a wide room , he carries you up into a corner of it , and speaks in your ear . I have seen Peter seat himself in a company of seven or eight persons , whom he never saw before in his life ; and ...
... town . If you are alone with him in a wide room , he carries you up into a corner of it , and speaks in your ear . I have seen Peter seat himself in a company of seven or eight persons , whom he never saw before in his life ; and ...
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... town the story of the Sibyls , if they deny giving you two - pence . Let them know , that those sacred papers were valued at the same rate after two thirds of them were destroyed , as when there was the whole set . There are so many of ...
... town the story of the Sibyls , if they deny giving you two - pence . Let them know , that those sacred papers were valued at the same rate after two thirds of them were destroyed , as when there was the whole set . There are so many of ...
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... town his great capacity for acting in its full light , by introducing him as dictating to a set of young players , in what manner to speak this sentence , and utter t'other passion . He had so exquisite a discerning of what was ...
... town his great capacity for acting in its full light , by introducing him as dictating to a set of young players , in what manner to speak this sentence , and utter t'other passion . He had so exquisite a discerning of what was ...
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Page 84 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 90 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 167 - 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 49 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 166 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep.
Page 158 - 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.
Page 158 - ... we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Page 56 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 56 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 89 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.