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 |
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... rise in the mind , when it reflects on this its entrance into eternity , when it takes a view of those improveable faculties which in a few years , and even at its first setting - out , have made so con- siderable a progress , and which ...
... rise in the mind , when it reflects on this its entrance into eternity , when it takes a view of those improveable faculties which in a few years , and even at its first setting - out , have made so con- siderable a progress , and which ...
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... from thy eyes depart , Rise like the bounding roe , or lusty hart , Glad to behold the light again From Bether's mountains darting o'er the plain . " T. No 389. TUESDAY , MAY 27 , 1712 . -Meliora 36 No 388 . SPECTATOR .
... from thy eyes depart , Rise like the bounding roe , or lusty hart , Glad to behold the light again From Bether's mountains darting o'er the plain . " T. No 389. TUESDAY , MAY 27 , 1712 . -Meliora 36 No 388 . SPECTATOR .
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... rise ; Or could I once my ward's cold corpse attend ; Then all were mine ! ' WHERE Homer represents Phoenix , the tutor of Achilles , as persuading his pupil to lay aside his resentment , and give himself up to the entreaties 6 of his ...
... rise ; Or could I once my ward's cold corpse attend ; Then all were mine ! ' WHERE Homer represents Phoenix , the tutor of Achilles , as persuading his pupil to lay aside his resentment , and give himself up to the entreaties 6 of his ...
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... rising , there issued through it such a din of crics as astonished the phi- losopher . Upon his asking what they meant , Jupi- ter told him they were the prayers that were sent up to him from the earth . Menippus , amidst the confusion ...
... rising , there issued through it such a din of crics as astonished the phi- losopher . Upon his asking what they meant , Jupi- ter told him they were the prayers that were sent up to him from the earth . Menippus , amidst the confusion ...
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... rise in me when I con- sider his future happiness , that against all reason , equity , and common justice , I am ever playing mean tricks to suspend the nuptials . I have no manner of hopes for myself : Emilia , for so I'll call her ...
... rise in me when I con- sider his future happiness , that against all reason , equity , and common justice , I am ever playing mean tricks to suspend the nuptials . I have no manner of hopes for myself : Emilia , for so I'll call her ...
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Strana 201 - care : His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. ir. ' When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant; To fertile
Strana 201 - and dewy meads My weary, wand'ring steps he leads; . Where peaceful rivers, soft, and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. III. « Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My stedfast heart shall fear no ill,
Strana 107 - inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and
Strana vii - always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not
Strana 107 - more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with, its ideas; so that by ' the pleasures of the imagination,' or ' fancy,
Strana 201 - Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ANON. MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset with dangers on
Strana 8 - as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe; that London bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the seven wonders of the world ; with many other honest
Strana 131 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heav'n with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Strana 198 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber ; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings
Strana 8 - You must know," says sir Roger, ' I never make use of any body to row me, that has not lost either a leg or an arm. I would rather bate him a few strokes of his oar than not employ an honest man that has been wounded in the queen's service. If I was a lord