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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... meet with in a little book published by Lewis Cornaro the Venetian ; which I the rather mention , because it is of undoubted credit , as the late Venetian ambassador , who was of the same family , attested more than once in conversation ...
... meet with in a little book published by Lewis Cornaro the Venetian ; which I the rather mention , because it is of undoubted credit , as the late Venetian ambassador , who was of the same family , attested more than once in conversation ...
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... meet every day and smoke a pipe , and by their natural love to each other , though they have been men of business and bustle in the world , enjoy a greater tranquillity than either could have worked himself into by any chapter of Seneca ...
... meet every day and smoke a pipe , and by their natural love to each other , though they have been men of business and bustle in the world , enjoy a greater tranquillity than either could have worked himself into by any chapter of Seneca ...
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... meet with a fool or a knave . Lastly , if you propose to yourself the true end of argument , which is information , it may be a season- able check to your passion ; for if you search purely after truth , it will be almost indifferent to ...
... meet with a fool or a knave . Lastly , if you propose to yourself the true end of argument , which is information , it may be a season- able check to your passion ; for if you search purely after truth , it will be almost indifferent to ...
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... meet you , and be carried to what convenient corner of the town you thought fit , to consummate all which your wanton imagination has promised to you in the possession of one who is in the bloom of youth , and in the reputation of ...
... meet you , and be carried to what convenient corner of the town you thought fit , to consummate all which your wanton imagination has promised to you in the possession of one who is in the bloom of youth , and in the reputation of ...
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... meet with any vicious character that is not generally known , in order to prevent its doing mis- chief , I draw it at length , and set it up as a scare- crow ; by which means I do not only make an ex- ample of the person to whom it ...
... meet with any vicious character that is not generally known , in order to prevent its doing mis- chief , I draw it at length , and set it up as a scare- crow ; by which means I do not only make an ex- ample of the person to whom it ...
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Página 275 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 256 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek, Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 274 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 273 - It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us, but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
Página 98 - ... the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.
Página 101 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...
Página 3 - ... till such time as he should sweat ; when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood had so good an influence on the sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This eastern allegory is finely contrived to shew us how beneficial bodily labour is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic.
Página 131 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 148 - Wisdom is glorious and never fadeth away, yet she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her. She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.
Página 256 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...