The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Zväzky 5–6T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... Apartment , August 16 . I HAVE had much importunity to answer the fol- lowing letter . 6 ' MR . BICKERSTAFF , I Reading over a volume of yours , I find the words Simplex Munditiis mentioned as a descrip- tion of a very well - dressed ...
... Apartment , August 16 . I HAVE had much importunity to answer the fol- lowing letter . 6 ' MR . BICKERSTAFF , I Reading over a volume of yours , I find the words Simplex Munditiis mentioned as a descrip- tion of a very well - dressed ...
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... Apartment , August 21 . In every party there are two sorts of men , the rigid and the supple . The rigid are an intractable race of mortals , who act upon principle , and will not , forsooth , fall into any measures that are not con ...
... Apartment , August 21 . In every party there are two sorts of men , the rigid and the supple . The rigid are an intractable race of mortals , who act upon principle , and will not , forsooth , fall into any measures that are not con ...
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... Apartment , August 23 . LYSANDER has writ to me out of the country , and tells me , after many other circumstances , that he had passed a great deal of time with much pleasure pro- and tranquillity ; until his happiness was interrupted ...
... Apartment , August 23 . LYSANDER has writ to me out of the country , and tells me , after many other circumstances , that he had passed a great deal of time with much pleasure pro- and tranquillity ; until his happiness was interrupted ...
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... Apartment , August 25 . NATURE is full of wonders ; every atom is a stand- ing miracle , and endowed with such qualities , as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite . For this reason , I would not dis ...
... Apartment , August 25 . NATURE is full of wonders ; every atom is a stand- ing miracle , and endowed with such qualities , as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite . For this reason , I would not dis ...
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... Apartment , August 28 . As I was passing by a neighbour's house this morn- ing , I overheard the wife of the family speaking things to her husband which gave me much disturb- ance , and put me in mind of a character which I wonder I ...
... Apartment , August 28 . As I was passing by a neighbour's house this morn- ing , I overheard the wife of the family speaking things to her husband which gave me much disturb- ance , and put me in mind of a character which I wonder I ...
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Strana 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Strana 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Strana 31 - 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 Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Strana 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Strana 214 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Strana 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Strana 10 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Strana 110 - 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 The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure...
Strana 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Strana 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.