Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volumen1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 páginas |
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... perhaps not undeservedly , neglected ; though , as they were uniformly written in support of virtue and moral order , and occasionally display passages of some literary merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and ...
... perhaps not undeservedly , neglected ; though , as they were uniformly written in support of virtue and moral order , and occasionally display passages of some literary merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and ...
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... perhaps , have ob- tained , if he had not lent his hand , and scattered life and lustre through these loose pages . - I fear that these may be the only witty pieces in the whole set . " I apprehend that this boast , which appears ...
... perhaps , have ob- tained , if he had not lent his hand , and scattered life and lustre through these loose pages . - I fear that these may be the only witty pieces in the whole set . " I apprehend that this boast , which appears ...
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... perhaps the stamp - act first , and then the rise and multiplication of Weekly Jour- nals , are now such impediments to a fair hearing in this method , as almost amount to a prohibition of such essays for the future . The invention of ...
... perhaps the stamp - act first , and then the rise and multiplication of Weekly Jour- nals , are now such impediments to a fair hearing in this method , as almost amount to a prohibition of such essays for the future . The invention of ...
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... perhaps justly made , but the result of the whole is not unfriendly to morality ; vice is invari ably punished , the noblest feelings and affections are frequently awakened , and no unprejudiced person can peruse the work without being ...
... perhaps justly made , but the result of the whole is not unfriendly to morality ; vice is invari ably punished , the noblest feelings and affections are frequently awakened , and no unprejudiced person can peruse the work without being ...
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... perhaps wished myself there on account of this wind - music ; but it is now become so habitual to me , that I am little more alarmed at it , than a garrison at the tattoo or reveille ; indeed , I have , I thank God , for these thirty ...
... perhaps wished myself there on account of this wind - music ; but it is now become so habitual to me , that I am little more alarmed at it , than a garrison at the tattoo or reveille ; indeed , I have , I thank God , for these thirty ...
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Página 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Página 134 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Página 398 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Página 301 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
Página 301 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 193 - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Página 330 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
Página 248 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.