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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... believe it will hardly serve his turn . Who can endure to see the great officers of state , the B - y's and T -- t's , treated after so scurrilous a manner ? " I can't for my life , ' says I , imagine who they are the Spectator means ...
... believe it will hardly serve his turn . Who can endure to see the great officers of state , the B - y's and T -- t's , treated after so scurrilous a manner ? " I can't for my life , ' says I , imagine who they are the Spectator means ...
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... believe there are diseases . At the sight of so many inven- tions I could not but imagine myself in a kind of arsenal or magazine where store of arms was re- posited against any sudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the enemy ...
... believe there are diseases . At the sight of so many inven- tions I could not but imagine myself in a kind of arsenal or magazine where store of arms was re- posited against any sudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the enemy ...
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... believe it , sir , Mr. Sturdy was just five - and - twenty , about six foot high , and the stoutest fox - hunter in the country , and I believe I wished ten thousand times for my old Fribble again ; he was following his dogs all the day ...
... believe it , sir , Mr. Sturdy was just five - and - twenty , about six foot high , and the stoutest fox - hunter in the country , and I believe I wished ten thousand times for my old Fribble again ; he was following his dogs all the day ...
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... believe he died of an apoplexy . Mr. Waitfort was resolved not to be too late this time , and I heard from him in two days . I am almost out of my weeds at this present writing , and very doubt- ful whether I will marry him or no . I do ...
... believe he died of an apoplexy . Mr. Waitfort was resolved not to be too late this time , and I heard from him in two days . I am almost out of my weeds at this present writing , and very doubt- ful whether I will marry him or no . I do ...
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... Believe not those that lands possess , And shining heaps of useless ore , The only lords of happiness ; But rather those that know For what kind fates bestow , And have the art to use the store : That have the generous skill to bear The ...
... Believe not those that lands possess , And shining heaps of useless ore , The only lords of happiness ; But rather those that know For what kind fates bestow , And have the art to use the store : That have the generous skill to bear The ...
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acquainted agreeable appear AUGUST 27 bacon battle of Blenheim beauty body casuist cave cerning CICERO consider creature delight desire discourse divine dreams DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy favours fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give Gladio Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination inclination infinite kind king la Trappe lady Lancelot Addison letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbouring never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason received Shalum sight sleep soul SPECTATOR sure taborets tell temper thing Thomas Britton thou thought tion Tirzah told trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young
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Página 256 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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.
Página 256 - 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.
Página 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 256 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Página 46 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Página 113 - That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Página 256 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Página 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 33 - This virtue does indeed produce, in some measure, all those effects which the alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising out of a man's mind, body, or.
Página 34 - ... of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, "Content is natural wealth," says Socrates; to which I shall add, "Luxury is artificial poverty.