The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... seems by her letter to be placed in a modish state of indifference between vice and virtue , and to be susceptible of either , were there proper pains taken * This motto , not to be found in Virgil , was probably quoted from memory ...
... seems by her letter to be placed in a modish state of indifference between vice and virtue , and to be susceptible of either , were there proper pains taken * This motto , not to be found in Virgil , was probably quoted from memory ...
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... author on Sir Philip Sidney's sister , a lady who seems to have been of a temper very much * A huddled economy of dress so called . + Duncan Campbel . different from that of Clarinda . The last thought of N ° 323 . 9 SPECTATOR .
... author on Sir Philip Sidney's sister , a lady who seems to have been of a temper very much * A huddled economy of dress so called . + Duncan Campbel . different from that of Clarinda . The last thought of N ° 323 . 9 SPECTATOR .
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... seems from a sort of cannibals in India , who subsist The motto prefixed to this paper in its original form in folio , as taken from Juvenal : Sævis inter se convenit ursis . Even bears with bears agree . 6 by plundering and devouring ...
... seems from a sort of cannibals in India , who subsist The motto prefixed to this paper in its original form in folio , as taken from Juvenal : Sævis inter se convenit ursis . Even bears with bears agree . 6 by plundering and devouring ...
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James Ferguson. passion to his mistress . The young lady was one , it seems , who had long before conceived a favourable opinion of him , and was still in hopes that he would some time or other make his advances . As he was one day ...
James Ferguson. passion to his mistress . The young lady was one , it seems , who had long before conceived a favourable opinion of him , and was still in hopes that he would some time or other make his advances . As he was one day ...
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... seems to bear some relation to the following letter , which I received the day before . SIR , I HAVE read your last Saturday's observa- tions on the fourth book of Milton with great satis- faction , and am particularly pleased with the ...
... seems to bear some relation to the following letter , which I received the day before . SIR , I HAVE read your last Saturday's observa- tions on the fourth book of Milton with great satis- faction , and am particularly pleased with the ...
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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