The British Essayists, Zväzok 33Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... ment , should suffer the disappointment which com- monly follows ill - placed expectations , they are to lay the blame only on themselves . Yet hope is not wholly to be cast away . The Idler , though sluggish , is yet alive , and may ...
... ment , should suffer the disappointment which com- monly follows ill - placed expectations , they are to lay the blame only on themselves . Yet hope is not wholly to be cast away . The Idler , though sluggish , is yet alive , and may ...
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... ment to him who is unable to find it for himself . It is naturally indifferent to this race of men what entertainment they receive , so they are but enter- tained . They catch , with equal eagerness , at a mo- ral lecture , or the ...
... ment to him who is unable to find it for himself . It is naturally indifferent to this race of men what entertainment they receive , so they are but enter- tained . They catch , with equal eagerness , at a mo- ral lecture , or the ...
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... ment ; dispose shells by their own invention ; walk in the Mall without a gallant ; go to the gardens without a protector ; and shuffle cards with vain im- patience , for want of a fourth to complete the party . Of these ladies , some ...
... ment ; dispose shells by their own invention ; walk in the Mall without a gallant ; go to the gardens without a protector ; and shuffle cards with vain im- patience , for want of a fourth to complete the party . Of these ladies , some ...
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... Westminster - bridge was so contrived as to sink , on pur- pose that the nation might be put to charge . He considers the new road to Islington as an encroach- ment on liberty , and often asserts that broad wheels N ° 10 . 35 IDLER .
... Westminster - bridge was so contrived as to sink , on pur- pose that the nation might be put to charge . He considers the new road to Islington as an encroach- ment on liberty , and often asserts that broad wheels N ° 10 . 35 IDLER .
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Alexander Chalmers. ment on liberty , and often asserts that broad wheels will be the ruin of England . Tom is generally vehement and noisy , but never- theless has some secrets which he always communi- cates in a whisper . Many and many ...
Alexander Chalmers. ment on liberty , and often asserts that broad wheels will be the ruin of England . Tom is generally vehement and noisy , but never- theless has some secrets which he always communi- cates in a whisper . Many and many ...
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Strana 199 - He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick...
Strana 242 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Strana 228 - He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
Strana 47 - ... of mutilation, or with the excision or laceration of the vital parts ; to examine whether burning irons are felt more acutely by the bone or tendon ; and whether the more lasting agonies are produced by poison forced into the mouth, or injected into the veins.
Strana 6 - ... performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions, and barren zeal.
Strana i - But in this number of his Idler his spirits seem to run riot; for in the wantonness of his disquisition he forgets, for a moment, even the reverence for that which he held in high respect; and describes " the attendant on a Court" as one " whose business is to watch the looks of a being, weak and foolish as himself.
Strana 128 - The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection, that it is not easy to propose any improvement.
Strana 310 - There are few things not purely evil, of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the last. Those who never could agree together, shed tears when mutual discontent has determined them to final separation; of a place which has been frequently visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart...
Strana 257 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...