The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Strana 30
... fortune with the fair sex . The observations which I made at this conjuncture , and the repeated advices which I received at that time from the good old man above mentioned , have pro- duced the following essay upon love and marriage ...
... fortune with the fair sex . The observations which I made at this conjuncture , and the repeated advices which I received at that time from the good old man above mentioned , have pro- duced the following essay upon love and marriage ...
Strana 40
... fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends , an easy landlord to his tenants , and . and agreeable ...
... fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends , an easy landlord to his tenants , and . and agreeable ...
Strana 45
... fortune or merit entitles them to , out of mere choice , and an elegant desire of ease and disincumbrance . It would look like romance to tell you in this age , of an old man who is contented to pass for an humourist , and one who does ...
... fortune or merit entitles them to , out of mere choice , and an elegant desire of ease and disincumbrance . It would look like romance to tell you in this age , of an old man who is contented to pass for an humourist , and one who does ...
Strana 46
... fortune by secret methods to other men . If he has not the pomp of a numerous train , and of professors of ser- vice to him , he has every day he lives the conscience that the widow , the fatherless , the mourner , and the stranger ...
... fortune by secret methods to other men . If he has not the pomp of a numerous train , and of professors of ser- vice to him , he has every day he lives the conscience that the widow , the fatherless , the mourner , and the stranger ...
Strana 47
... fortune , he took his present lodging in St. John - street , at the mansion - house of a tailor's widow , who washes , and can clear - starch his bands . From that time to this he has kept the main stock , without alteration under or ...
... fortune , he took his present lodging in St. John - street , at the mansion - house of a tailor's widow , who washes , and can clear - starch his bands . From that time to this he has kept the main stock , without alteration under or ...
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Strana 232 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Strana 234 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Strana 343 - On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he, in delight Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers...
Strana 234 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Strana 234 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Strana 165 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Strana 344 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
Strana 271 - To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe. Space may produce new worlds...
Strana 342 - So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or Angel; for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Strana 60 - ¿Eneid also labours in this particular, and has episodes which may be looked upon as excrescences rather than as parts of the action. On the contrary, the poem which we have now under our consideration, hath no other episodes than such as naturally arise from the subject, and yet is filled with such a multitude of astonishing incidents...