The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volúmenes1-13 |
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Oh Betty ! could I hear these rivulets murmur , and birds sing , while you stood
near me , how little sensible should I be that we are both servants , that there is
any thing on earth above us ! Oh ! I could write to you as long as I love you , till
death ...
Oh Betty ! could I hear these rivulets murmur , and birds sing , while you stood
near me , how little sensible should I be that we are both servants , that there is
any thing on earth above us ! Oh ! I could write to you as long as I love you , till
death ...
Página 95
Brunetta had the ill - nature to enquire for her by every opportunity , and had the
misfortune to hear of her being attended by numerous slaves , fanned into
slumbers by successive bands of them , and carried from place to place in all the
pomp ...
Brunetta had the ill - nature to enquire for her by every opportunity , and had the
misfortune to hear of her being attended by numerous slaves , fanned into
slumbers by successive bands of them , and carried from place to place in all the
pomp ...
Página 115
Why should not Pharamond hear the anguish he only can relieve others from in
time to come ? Let him hear from me , what they feel who have given death by the
false mercy of his administration , and form to himself the vengeance called for ...
Why should not Pharamond hear the anguish he only can relieve others from in
time to come ? Let him hear from me , what they feel who have given death by the
false mercy of his administration , and form to himself the vengeance called for ...
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I was secretly concerned to see human nature in so much wretchedness and
disgrace , but at the same time could not forbear smiling to hear Sir Roger , who
is a little puzzled about the old woman , advising her as a justice of peace to
avoid ...
I was secretly concerned to see human nature in so much wretchedness and
disgrace , but at the same time could not forbear smiling to hear Sir Roger , who
is a little puzzled about the old woman , advising her as a justice of peace to
avoid ...
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Still do you hear me without one smile - It is too much to bear . ' — He had no
sooner spoke these words , but he made an offer of throwing himself into the
water : at which his mistress started up , and at the next instant he jumped across
the ...
Still do you hear me without one smile - It is too much to bear . ' — He had no
sooner spoke these words , but he made an offer of throwing himself into the
water : at which his mistress started up , and at the next instant he jumped across
the ...
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Página 294 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge ? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Página 200 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
Página 283 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that Means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several Times Foreman of the Petty-Jury. The other that rides along with him is Tom Touchy, a Fellow famous for taking the Law of every Body.
Página 259 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Página 211 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
Página 39 - 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...
Página 65 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
Página 232 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn x 2 from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it; which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others who have written on this subject, though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it.
Página 255 - So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 64 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...