The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... 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 hidden moral which ...
... 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 hidden moral which ...
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... relation , whose husband had made her a present of a chariot and a stately pair of horses : and that she was positive she could not breathe a week longer , unless she took the air in the fellow to it of her own within that time . This ...
... relation , whose husband had made her a present of a chariot and a stately pair of horses : and that she was positive she could not breathe a week longer , unless she took the air in the fellow to it of her own within that time . This ...
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... relation's pictures in miniature : the first must be mounted by nobody but Colmar , and the other set by nobody but Charles Mather . What follows is still much worse than the former ; for , as I told you she is a great artist at her ...
... relation's pictures in miniature : the first must be mounted by nobody but Colmar , and the other set by nobody but Charles Mather . What follows is still much worse than the former ; for , as I told you she is a great artist at her ...
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... relation to her children , who are all confined , both boys and girls , to one large room in the remotest part of the house , with bolts on the doors and bars to the win- dows , under the care and tuition of an old woman , who had been ...
... relation to her children , who are all confined , both boys and girls , to one large room in the remotest part of the house , with bolts on the doors and bars to the win- dows , under the care and tuition of an old woman , who had been ...
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... 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 these errors which have so unhappily misled mine , and which are ...
... 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 these errors which have so unhappily misled mine , and which are ...
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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