The British Essayists: The worldT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... discover all the signs of vigorous bodily health , but whose minds are so feeble , puny , and half - starved , as to be scarce . able to support themselves . ' Vauxhall and Ranelagh are generally crowded be with objects of this sort ...
... discover all the signs of vigorous bodily health , but whose minds are so feeble , puny , and half - starved , as to be scarce . able to support themselves . ' Vauxhall and Ranelagh are generally crowded be with objects of this sort ...
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... discover this truth ; but as he has totally omitted it in all his essays , I shall ( without making apologies for my inferior abilities , for I hate apo- logies ) endeavour to demonstrate , that this very passion is superior to all our ...
... discover this truth ; but as he has totally omitted it in all his essays , I shall ( without making apologies for my inferior abilities , for I hate apo- logies ) endeavour to demonstrate , that this very passion is superior to all our ...
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... discover it to be mere peevishness and discon- tent . The truth is , that the present times , like our wives and our other possessions , are our own , and therefore we have no relish of them . Many of my readers may possibly object to ...
... discover it to be mere peevishness and discon- tent . The truth is , that the present times , like our wives and our other possessions , are our own , and therefore we have no relish of them . Many of my readers may possibly object to ...
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... discover it to have been a stable or a pig - sty . His report of your place , after he has left it , is ex- actly of a piece with his behaviour while there . He either describes it as a bog that will not bear a horse , or as a sand that ...
... discover it to have been a stable or a pig - sty . His report of your place , after he has left it , is ex- actly of a piece with his behaviour while there . He either describes it as a bog that will not bear a horse , or as a sand that ...
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... discover itself in those very shades where she used to meditate on the hero of Clelia , so captivated her heart with Monsieur Antoine the valet , that her ima- gination instantly annihilated every circumstance of his rank and fortune ...
... discover itself in those very shades where she used to meditate on the hero of Clelia , so captivated her heart with Monsieur Antoine the valet , that her ima- gination instantly annihilated every circumstance of his rank and fortune ...
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Стр. 53 - ... and better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem, his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop trading all day without his religion.
Стр. 97 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.
Стр. 2 - To advise the ignorant, relieve the needy, comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives. A man has frequent opportunities of mitigating the fierceness of a party; of doing justice to the character of a...
Стр. 229 - It must be owned, that our language is, at present, in a state of anarchy, and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it. During our free and open trade, many words and expressions have been imported, adopted, and naturalized from other languages, which have greatly enriched our own. Let it still preserve what...
Стр. 219 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Стр. 82 - They are both of them women in years, and alike in birth, fortune, education, and accomplishments. They were originally alike in temper too ; but by different management are grown the reverse of each other. Arachne has accustomed herself to look only on the dark side of every object. If a new...
Стр. 35 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Стр. 20 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Стр. 52 - What does he therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be.
Стр. 158 - Roger's; it is usual in all other places, that servants fly from the parts of the house through which their master is passing; on the contrary, here they industriously place themselves in his way; and it is on both sides, as it were, understood as a visit, when the servants appear without calling.