The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... taken up , and by such an object as it is impossible to get the better of ; I mean himself . He made no doubt of marrying me within four or five months , and be gan to proceed with such an assured easy air , that piqued my pride not to ...
... taken up , and by such an object as it is impossible to get the better of ; I mean himself . He made no doubt of marrying me within four or five months , and be gan to proceed with such an assured easy air , that piqued my pride not to ...
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... taken : and when he was presented to her , though he showed a fear- fulness to be touched by any of the other ladies , flew of his own accord , and hid himself in the queen's bosom . Zemroude was highly pleased at the unexpected ...
... taken : and when he was presented to her , though he showed a fear- fulness to be touched by any of the other ladies , flew of his own accord , and hid himself in the queen's bosom . Zemroude was highly pleased at the unexpected ...
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... taken in and added to that glorious place of which I am here speaking , and by that means made a proper habi . tation for beings who are exempt from mortality , and cleared of their imperfections : for so the scrip- ture seems to ...
... taken in and added to that glorious place of which I am here speaking , and by that means made a proper habi . tation for beings who are exempt from mortality , and cleared of their imperfections : for so the scrip- ture seems to ...
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... taken up with one . Had that sage who demanded what beauty was , -lived to see the dear angel I love , he would not have asked such a question . Had another seen her , he would himself have loved the person in whom heaven has made ...
... taken up with one . Had that sage who demanded what beauty was , -lived to see the dear angel I love , he would not have asked such a question . Had another seen her , he would himself have loved the person in whom heaven has made ...
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... taken up with this contemplation , I insensibly fell into a most pleasing slumber , when methought two porters entered my chamber carrying a large chest between them . After having set it down in the middle of the room 1 2 587 . 87 ...
... taken up with this contemplation , I insensibly fell into a most pleasing slumber , when methought two porters entered my chamber carrying a large chest between them . After having set it down in the middle of the room 1 2 587 . 87 ...
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acquainted agreeable appear AUGUST 27 bacon battle of Blenheim beauty body casuist cave cerning CICERO consider creature delight desire discourse divine dreams DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy favours fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give Gladio Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination inclination infinite kind king la Trappe lady Lancelot Addison letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbouring never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason received Shalum sight sleep soul SPECTATOR sure taborets tell temper thing Thomas Britton thou thought tion Tirzah told trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young
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Seite 256 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 256 - 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.
Seite 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Seite 256 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Seite 46 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Seite 113 - That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Seite 256 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Seite 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Seite 33 - This virtue does indeed produce, in some measure, all those effects which the alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising out of a man's mind, body, or.
Seite 34 - ... of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, "Content is natural wealth," says Socrates; to which I shall add, "Luxury is artificial poverty.