The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The TatlerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1809 |
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Strana 28
... short in the midst of a full career , to the great surprise and derision of their be- holders . When a man foresees a decaying ministry , he has leisure to grow a malecontent , reflect upon the present conduct , and by gradual murmurs ...
... short in the midst of a full career , to the great surprise and derision of their be- holders . When a man foresees a decaying ministry , he has leisure to grow a malecontent , reflect upon the present conduct , and by gradual murmurs ...
Strana 37
... short , studies of this nature should be the di- versions , relaxations , and amusements ; not the care , business , and concern of life . It is indeed wonderful to consider , that there should be a sort of learned men , who are wholly ...
... short , studies of this nature should be the di- versions , relaxations , and amusements ; not the care , business , and concern of life . It is indeed wonderful to consider , that there should be a sort of learned men , who are wholly ...
Strana 52
... short work for us reformers ; for it is only want of making this a position that renders some characters bad , which would otherwise be good . Tom Mercet means no man ill , but does ill to every body . His ambition is to be witty ; and ...
... short work for us reformers ; for it is only want of making this a position that renders some characters bad , which would otherwise be good . Tom Mercet means no man ill , but does ill to every body . His ambition is to be witty ; and ...
Strana 59
... short , I have now by me , digested in an alphabetical order , all the counties , corporations , and boroughs in Great Britain , with their respective tempers , as they stand related to my Thermometer . But this I shall keep to my- self ...
... short , I have now by me , digested in an alphabetical order , all the counties , corporations , and boroughs in Great Britain , with their respective tempers , as they stand related to my Thermometer . But this I shall keep to my- self ...
Strana 68
... short , there is not a labourer , or handicraft - man , that in the cool of the evening does not relieve himself with solos and sonatas . The Italian sooths his mistress with a plainitve voice ; and bewails himself in such melting music ...
... short , there is not a labourer , or handicraft - man , that in the cool of the evening does not relieve himself with solos and sonatas . The Italian sooths his mistress with a plainitve voice ; and bewails himself in such melting music ...
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Strana 130 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Strana 136 - Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell. ' They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force From Smithfield, or St. Pulchre's shape their Course, And in huge Confluent join at Snow-Hill Ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn- Bridge. Sweepings from Butchers...
Strana 207 - I found that our words froze in the air before they could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard....
Strana 135 - Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through), Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear...
Strana 46 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Strana 97 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Strana 215 - Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does know What slavery he oft must undergo.
Strana 37 - THE WILL OF A VIRTUOSO. I NICHOLAS G-IMCRACK, being in sound health of mind, but in great weakness of body, do by this my last will and testament, bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following : Imprimis, To my dear wife, One box of butterflies, One drawer of shells, A female skeleton, A dried cockatrice. Item, To my daughter Elizabeth, My receipt for preserving dead caterpillars.
Strana 102 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words as well as men. The war has introduce•d abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns, Speculations...
Strana 188 - I shall only repeat two adventures, as being very extraordinary, and neither of them having ever happened to me above once in my life. The first was, my being in a poet's pocket, who was so taken with the brightness and novelty of my appearance, that it gave occasion to the finest burlesque poem in the British language, entitled from me,