The British Essayists: RamblerAlexander Chalmers C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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Strana 12
... judgement , in knowledge , or in any thing , but a kind of gay , lively familiarity , by which she mingles with strangers as with persons long acquainted , and which enables her to display her powers without any obstruction , hesitation ...
... judgement , in knowledge , or in any thing , but a kind of gay , lively familiarity , by which she mingles with strangers as with persons long acquainted , and which enables her to display her powers without any obstruction , hesitation ...
Strana 19
... , to follow the opinion of every confident adviser , and move by the impulse of the last breath . Some are impatient of contradiction , more willing to go wrong by their own judgement , than to be No. 64 . 19 RAMBLER .
... , to follow the opinion of every confident adviser , and move by the impulse of the last breath . Some are impatient of contradiction , more willing to go wrong by their own judgement , than to be No. 64 . 19 RAMBLER .
Strana 20
Alexander Chalmers. go wrong by their own judgement , than to be in- debted for a better or a safer way to the sagacity of another , inclined to consider counsel as insult , and inquiry as want of confidence , and to confer their regard ...
Alexander Chalmers. go wrong by their own judgement , than to be in- debted for a better or a safer way to the sagacity of another , inclined to consider counsel as insult , and inquiry as want of confidence , and to confer their regard ...
Strana 21
... judgement , but that they should attract the affections ; that they should not only be firm in the day of distress , but gay in the hour of jollity ; not only useful in exigencies , but pleasing in familiar life ; their presence should ...
... judgement , but that they should attract the affections ; that they should not only be firm in the day of distress , but gay in the hour of jollity ; not only useful in exigencies , but pleasing in familiar life ; their presence should ...
Strana 74
... judgement and maxims of prudence , by which I was enabled to draw upon myself the gene- ral regard in every place of concourse or pleasure . My opinion was the great rule of approbation ; my remarks were remembered by those who desired ...
... judgement and maxims of prudence , by which I was enabled to draw upon myself the gene- ral regard in every place of concourse or pleasure . My opinion was the great rule of approbation ; my remarks were remembered by those who desired ...
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Ajax amusements appearance attention beauty celebrated censure considered contempt curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dignity diligence discover DRYDEN elegance endeavoured envy equally excellence expected eyes Falsehood fancy favour fear FEBRUARY 16 felicity flattered folly fortune frequently genius gratifications happiness harmony heart hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination inclined inquiry JANUARY 22 judgement Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look mankind MARCH 19 ment Milton mind miscarriages nature necessary nerally ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poet portunity praise precepts pride pupillage racters RAMBLER reason regard rest ruentes SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sophisms sound suffer surely syllables thing thou thought thousand tion tivate Truth TUESDAY vanity verse Virgil virtue vowels wisdom writers XVII
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Strana 137 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Strana 175 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Strana 260 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Strana 148 - Italian, the most mellifluous of all modern poetry, seems fully convinced of the unfitness of our language for smooth versification, and is therefore pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance : for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself in a long series of proper names, and introduces them where they add little but music to his poem : — The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El...
Strana 26 - As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise ; he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices. He sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring ; all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
Strana 187 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight 80 We sunk thus low ? th...
Strana 147 - Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub...
Strana 138 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake. And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Strana 108 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Strana 26 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.