The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... appear'd , Bending to look on me ; I started back , It started back ; but pleas'd I soon return'd , Pleas'd it return'd as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love : there I had fix'd Mine eyes till now , and pin'd with a vain ...
... appear'd , Bending to look on me ; I started back , It started back ; but pleas'd I soon return'd , Pleas'd it return'd as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love : there I had fix'd Mine eyes till now , and pin'd with a vain ...
Strana 24
... appear on the earth , the time of the singing of birds is come , and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land . The fig - tree putteth forth her green figs , and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell . Arise , my love ...
... appear on the earth , the time of the singing of birds is come , and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land . The fig - tree putteth forth her green figs , and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell . Arise , my love ...
Strana 34
... appear , she prudently thinks it needless to be at any expense in apparel or learning . Her eldest daughter to this day would have neither read nor wrote , if it had not been for the butler , who , being the son of a country attorney ...
... appear , she prudently thinks it needless to be at any expense in apparel or learning . Her eldest daughter to this day would have neither read nor wrote , if it had not been for the butler , who , being the son of a country attorney ...
Strana 35
... appears to be but too melancholy a truth . And now I heartily wish the relation I have given of my misfortunes may be of use and benefit to the public . By the example I have set before them , the truly virtuous wives may learn to avoid ...
... appears to be but too melancholy a truth . And now I heartily wish the relation I have given of my misfortunes may be of use and benefit to the public . By the example I have set before them , the truly virtuous wives may learn to avoid ...
Strana 52
... appear the more terrible . I find but few beards worth taking notice of in the reign of King James the First . During the civil wars there appeared one , which makes too great a figure in story to be passed over in silence ; I mean that ...
... appear the more terrible . I find but few beards worth taking notice of in the reign of King James the First . During the civil wars there appeared one , which makes too great a figure in story to be passed over in silence ; I mean that ...
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Strana 266 - the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.' If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem would end better with the passage
Strana 12 - dare say my reader will pardon me the quotation. ON THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF PEMBROKE. ‘Underneath this marble hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast kill'd another, Fair and learn'd, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Strana 230 - the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God. -- ‘ To heaven their prayer - Flew up, nor miss'd the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate; in they pass'd - Dimensionless through heav'nly doors, then clad With incense, where the golden altar, fum'd
Strana 137 - and left some part Not proof enough such object to sustain; Or from my side subducting, took perhaps More than enough; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show - Elaborate, of inward less exact. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, - And in herself complete, so well to know
Strana 19 - desire, Had not a voice thus warn'd me: “What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming and thy soft embraces: he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine; to
Strana 137 - falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shews: Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe • About her, as a
Strana 199 - and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him: and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with sickness, and with the beasts of the earth.' Under this first head of celestial persons we must likewise take notice -of the
Strana 134 - Thou Sun,' said I, ‘fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus? how here?' His next sentiment, when, upon his first going to
Strana 104 - jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road; the gray Dawn. and the Pleiades before him danc'd, Shedding sweet influence. Less bright the moon, -. But opposite in levell'd west was set His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other lights she needed none- In that aspect, and still the distance