The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... lately erected themselves into a nocturnal fraternity , under the title of the Mohock - club , a name borrowed it seems from a sort of cannibals in India , who subsist The motto prefixed to this paper in its original form in folio , as ...
... lately erected themselves into a nocturnal fraternity , under the title of the Mohock - club , a name borrowed it seems from a sort of cannibals in India , who subsist The motto prefixed to this paper in its original form in folio , as ...
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... lately read a voyage to the South Sea , in which it is said that the ladies of Chili always dressed their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of Will's lest night's lecture on these natural mirrors , as ...
... lately read a voyage to the South Sea , in which it is said that the ladies of Chili always dressed their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of Will's lest night's lecture on these natural mirrors , as ...
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... lately been under this discipline . He tells me he had the honour to dance before the em- peror himself , not without the applause and accla- mations both of his imperial majesty and the whole ring ; though I dare say neither I , nor ...
... lately been under this discipline . He tells me he had the honour to dance before the em- peror himself , not without the applause and accla- mations both of his imperial majesty and the whole ring ; though I dare say neither I , nor ...
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... lately received a third letter from the gen- tleman who has already given the public two essays upon education . As his thoughts seem to be very just and new upon this subject , I shall communi- cate them to the reader . ' SIR , Ir I ...
... lately received a third letter from the gen- tleman who has already given the public two essays upon education . As his thoughts seem to be very just and new upon this subject , I shall communi- cate them to the reader . ' SIR , Ir I ...
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... lately met with a passage in Plutarch , which , if I am not very much mis- taken , still gives us a clearer light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , that Alexander in his youth had a master named Lysimachus , who ...
... lately met with a passage in Plutarch , which , if I am not very much mis- taken , still gives us a clearer light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , that Alexander in his youth had a master named Lysimachus , who ...
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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