The British Essayists, Volumen21Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... eyes were struck with the hospital for the reception of deserted infants , which I surveyed with pleasure , till , by a na- tural train of sentiment , I began to reflect on the fate of the mothers . For to what shelter can they fly ...
... eyes were struck with the hospital for the reception of deserted infants , which I surveyed with pleasure , till , by a na- tural train of sentiment , I began to reflect on the fate of the mothers . For to what shelter can they fly ...
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... eye of their tyrants , the bully and the bawd , who fatten on their misery , and threaten them with want , or a gaol , if they shew the least design of escaping from their bondage . " To wipe all tears from off all faces , " is a task ...
... eye of their tyrants , the bully and the bawd , who fatten on their misery , and threaten them with want , or a gaol , if they shew the least design of escaping from their bondage . " To wipe all tears from off all faces , " is a task ...
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... eye through a numerous company , and observe every deviation from the reign- ing mode . I was universally skilful in all the changes of expensive finery ; but as every one , they say , has something to which he is particularly born ...
... eye through a numerous company , and observe every deviation from the reign- ing mode . I was universally skilful in all the changes of expensive finery ; but as every one , they say , has something to which he is particularly born ...
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... eyes round him without shuddering with horror , or panting for secu rity ; what can he judge of himself but that he is not yet awakened to sufficient conviction , since every loss is more lamented than the loss of the divine favour ...
... eyes round him without shuddering with horror , or panting for secu rity ; what can he judge of himself but that he is not yet awakened to sufficient conviction , since every loss is more lamented than the loss of the divine favour ...
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... eye with excrescences and discolorations . The perceptions as well as the senses may be improved to our own disquiet , and we may , by diligent culti- vation of the powers of dislike , raise in time an ar- tificial fastidiousness ...
... eye with excrescences and discolorations . The perceptions as well as the senses may be improved to our own disquiet , and we may , by diligent culti- vation of the powers of dislike , raise in time an ar- tificial fastidiousness ...
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Página 178 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's...
Página 252 - CRITICISM, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, and, since the revival of polite literature, the favourite study of European scholars, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
Página 177 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Página 140 - It is too common for those who have been bred to «cholastick professions, and passed much of their time in academies where nothing but learning confers honours, to disregard every other qualification, and to imagine that they shall find mankind ready to pay homage to their knowledge, and to crowd about them for instruction. They therefore step out from their cells into the open world, with all the confidence of authority and, dignity of importance; they look round about them, at...
Página 75 - ... attempted. Whatever is done skilfully appears to be done with ease; and art, when it is once matured to habit, vanishes from observation. We are therefore more powerfully excited to emulation, by those who have attained the highest degree of excellence, and whom we can therefore with least reason hope to equal.