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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... perhaps you may find it not very consistent either with prudence or your ease , to punish yourself whenever you meet with a fool or a knave . Lastly , if you propose to yourself the true end of argument , which is information , it may ...
... perhaps you may find it not very consistent either with prudence or your ease , to punish yourself whenever you meet with a fool or a knave . Lastly , if you propose to yourself the true end of argument , which is information , it may ...
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... perhaps , will think fit to spend a day abroad in the common entertainments of men of sense and fortune ; she will think herself ill used in that absence , and contrive at home an expence pro- portioned to the appearance which you make ...
... perhaps , will think fit to spend a day abroad in the common entertainments of men of sense and fortune ; she will think herself ill used in that absence , and contrive at home an expence pro- portioned to the appearance which you make ...
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... Perhaps the inhabi- tants here are not above a tenth part of the whole ; yet as they are better fed , and clothed , and lodged , than her other subjects , the customs and excises upon their consumption , the imposts upon their houses ...
... Perhaps the inhabi- tants here are not above a tenth part of the whole ; yet as they are better fed , and clothed , and lodged , than her other subjects , the customs and excises upon their consumption , the imposts upon their houses ...
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... perhaps , thought it proper to repeat such a form in such particular shoes or slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head , and a crosier in his hand . To ...
... perhaps , thought it proper to repeat such a form in such particular shoes or slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head , and a crosier in his hand . To ...
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... perhaps with my friend Tacitus , fell into observa- tions upon it , which were too great for the occasion ; or ascribed this general favour to causes which had nothing to do towards it . But the young black- smith's being a gentleman ...
... perhaps with my friend Tacitus , fell into observa- tions upon it , which were too great for the occasion ; or ascribed this general favour to causes which had nothing to do towards it . But the young black- smith's being a gentleman ...
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Acarnania acquaintance actions admirable agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beautiful behaviour Castilian cerned character consider conversation creature desire Diogenes Laertius discourse endeavour entertainment esteem evil fancy father favour female gentleman give happy heart honour Hudibras human humble servant humour husband imagination innocent Ionian Sea kind labour lady leap letter Leucate live look lover Lover's Leap mankind manner matter means ment mind mirth mistress modesty nature nerally never nihil nurse obliged observe occasion October 31 OVID paper particular passion person philosopher pleased pleasure Plutarch poet pray present Preters proper racters reader reason received renegado ridicule salamander Sappho sense shew short Simonides sion Socrates sometimes soul speak species SPECTATOR speculation spirit tell temper thing thought tion town trunk-maker tural turn verses VIRG virtue whole wife woman women word write young
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Seite 275 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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 : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 256 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek, Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Seite 274 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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...
Seite 273 - It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us, but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
Seite 98 - ... the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.
Seite 101 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...
Seite 3 - ... till such time as he should sweat ; when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood had so good an influence on the sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This eastern allegory is finely contrived to shew us how beneficial bodily labour is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic.
Seite 131 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 148 - Wisdom is glorious and never fadeth away, yet she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her. She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.
Seite 256 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...