The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... meet together upon any subject of discourse , their debates are taken up chiefly with forms and general positions ; nay , if we come into a more contracted assembly of men and women , the talk generally runs upon the weather , 24 NO ...
... meet together upon any subject of discourse , their debates are taken up chiefly with forms and general positions ; nay , if we come into a more contracted assembly of men and women , the talk generally runs upon the weather , 24 NO ...
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... meet with a friend who is as virtuous as himself . There is another saying in the same author , which would have been very much ad- mired in a heathen writer : " Forsake not an old friend , for the new is not comparable to him : a new ...
... meet with a friend who is as virtuous as himself . There is another saying in the same author , which would have been very much ad- mired in a heathen writer : " Forsake not an old friend , for the new is not comparable to him : a new ...
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... meet with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions . Moliere , as we are told by Monsieur Boileau , used to read all his comedies to an old wo- man who was his house - keeper , as she sate with him at her work by the ...
... meet with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions . Moliere , as we are told by Monsieur Boileau , used to read all his comedies to an old wo- man who was his house - keeper , as she sate with him at her work by the ...
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... meet the fanning wind her bosom rose ; The fanning wind and purling streams continue her repose . The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes , And gaping mouth , that testified surprise ; Fix'd on her face , nor could remove his sight ...
... meet the fanning wind her bosom rose ; The fanning wind and purling streams continue her repose . The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes , And gaping mouth , that testified surprise ; Fix'd on her face , nor could remove his sight ...
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... meet this night where we used to do in the wood ! " Now , my dear , if I may not have the blessing of kissing your sweet lips , I beg I may have the happi- ness of kissing your fair hand , with a few lines from your dear self ...
... meet this night where we used to do in the wood ! " Now , my dear , if I may not have the blessing of kissing your sweet lips , I beg I may have the happi- ness of kissing your fair hand , with a few lines from your dear self ...
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Página 204 - Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon.
Página 31 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows .originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art...
Página 225 - ... the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose ? Can He delight in the production of such abortive intelligences, such short-lived reasonable beings ? Would He give us talents that are not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified...
Página 212 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.
Página 205 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Página 202 - ROGER'S Family, because it consists of sober and staid Persons; for as the Knight is the best Master in the World, he seldom changes his Servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his Servants never care for leaving him: By this Means his Domesticks are all in Years, and grown old with their Master. You would take his Valet...
Página 130 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Página 58 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Página 228 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Página 35 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar...