The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... live in gardens , have never thought of contriving a winter garden , which should consist of such trees only as never cast their leaves . We have very often little snatches of sunshine and fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of ...
... live in gardens , have never thought of contriving a winter garden , which should consist of such trees only as never cast their leaves . We have very often little snatches of sunshine and fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of ...
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... live ; it is hoped that this ill humour will be much suppressed , when we can have recourse to the fashions of their times , produce them in our vin- dication , and be able to shew that it might have been as expensive in queen ...
... live ; it is hoped that this ill humour will be much suppressed , when we can have recourse to the fashions of their times , produce them in our vin- dication , and be able to shew that it might have been as expensive in queen ...
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... live . When these are joined to men of warm spirits , without temper or learning , they are frequently corrected with stripes ; but one of our famous lawyers is of opinion , that this ought to be used sparingly ; as I remember , those ...
... live . When these are joined to men of warm spirits , without temper or learning , they are frequently corrected with stripes ; but one of our famous lawyers is of opinion , that this ought to be used sparingly ; as I remember , those ...
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... live in the hourly repetition of sharp answers , eager up- braidings , and distracting reproaches . In a word , the married state , with and without the affection suitable to it , is the completest image of heaven and hell we are ...
... live in the hourly repetition of sharp answers , eager up- braidings , and distracting reproaches . In a word , the married state , with and without the affection suitable to it , is the completest image of heaven and hell we are ...
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... lives in his house to teach him philoso- phy . Tom Dapperwit says , that he agrees with me in that whole discourse , excepting only the last sentence , where I affirm the married state to be either a heaven or a hell . Tom has been at ...
... lives in his house to teach him philoso- phy . Tom Dapperwit says , that he agrees with me in that whole discourse , excepting only the last sentence , where I affirm the married state to be either a heaven or a hell . Tom has been at ...
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Página 302 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.
Página 60 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions...
Página 69 - In midst of dangers, fears, and death, Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more. My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Página 301 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 60 - ... and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Página 68 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Página 16 - It must have been a fine Genius for Gardening, that could have thought of forming such an unsightly Hollow into so beautiful an Area, and to have hit the Eye with so uncommon and agreeable a Scene as that which it is now wrought into. To give this particular Spot of Ground the greater Effect, they have made a very pleasing Contrast ; for as on one Side of the Walk you see this hollow Basin, with its several little Plantations lying so conveniently under the Eye of the Beholder ; on the other Side...
Página 189 - ... several legacies and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Página 68 - They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Página 195 - If after this we look into the several inward Perfections of Cunning and Sagacity, or what we generally call Instinct, we find them rising after the same manner, imperceptibly one above another, and receiving additional Improvements, according to the Species in which they are implanted. This Progress in Nature is so very gradual, that the most perfect of an inferior Species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which is immediately above it...