The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... thou art gone . The Muses mourn thy fall In solemn strains , thy mother most of all . Ye mortals , idly for your sons ye moan , If thus a goddess could not save her own . " Observe here , that if we take the fable for granted , as it ...
... thou art gone . The Muses mourn thy fall In solemn strains , thy mother most of all . Ye mortals , idly for your sons ye moan , If thus a goddess could not save her own . " Observe here , that if we take the fable for granted , as it ...
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... thou for it , since all will own Thy name and lasting praise adorn the stone . " The thought here is fine , but its fault is , that it is general , that it may belong to any great man , be- cause it points out no particular character ...
... thou for it , since all will own Thy name and lasting praise adorn the stone . " The thought here is fine , but its fault is , that it is general , that it may belong to any great man , be- cause it points out no particular character ...
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... thou dost but beat the case of Anaxarchus . ' When I speak in my own private sentiments , I cannot but address myself to my read- ers in a more submissive manner , and with a just gratitude for the kind reception which they have given ...
... thou dost but beat the case of Anaxarchus . ' When I speak in my own private sentiments , I cannot but address myself to my read- ers in a more submissive manner , and with a just gratitude for the kind reception which they have given ...
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... thou knowest the inhabitants of one of these places do not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy subjects barbarians , because we speak what we mean ; and account themselves a civil- ized people , because they speak ...
... thou knowest the inhabitants of one of these places do not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy subjects barbarians , because we speak what we mean ; and account themselves a civil- ized people , because they speak ...
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... thou wouldst order any of thy officers of state to receive a hundred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negociate any thing with this people , since there is so little credit to be given to them . When I go to see the ...
... thou wouldst order any of thy officers of state to receive a hundred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negociate any thing with this people , since there is so little credit to be given to them . When I go to see the ...
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acquainted agreeable Anacreon annis Miles antediluvian appear beautiful Blank body character Cicero consider conversation creatures daugh delight dervis desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes fancy Flamstead FRIDAY gentleman give glory hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar June 24 kind king lady letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Menander ment mind MONDAY nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person Peter Motteux pleased pleasure poet praise present Publius Syrus reader reason received Renatus Harris ROSCOMMON says secret Shalum short soul speak Spectator tell thing thor thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIRG virtue Waitfort WEDNESDAY whig whole widow words write young Zilpah
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Seite 340 - It must be so ; Plato, thou reasonest 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 340 - 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 134 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 156 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 188 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.
Seite 81 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 198 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Seite 102 - I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Seite 33 - I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued friendship, than I should be of the fame of being thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing. I remember when I finished The Tender Husband, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished, as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of The Monument, in memory of our friendship.
Seite 122 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...