The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... correspondents , written with true epistolary ease and vivacity , and highly entertaining from the anecdotes and pictures of the times with which they are replete . Horace Walpole , though forming his plan of life chiefly upon a system ...
... correspondents , written with true epistolary ease and vivacity , and highly entertaining from the anecdotes and pictures of the times with which they are replete . Horace Walpole , though forming his plan of life chiefly upon a system ...
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... a species of disease . Dodsley 33. Remarks on the author's correspondents Letter from a disappointed bride - 34. On the danger of repealing the witch Moore act No. 55. Letter from Nic Limbertongue , a lover of CONTENTS .
... a species of disease . Dodsley 33. Remarks on the author's correspondents Letter from a disappointed bride - 34. On the danger of repealing the witch Moore act No. 55. Letter from Nic Limbertongue , a lover of CONTENTS .
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... correspondents whose pieces are the most numerous , and whose names and characters do me the greatest honour . It will not therefore , I hope , displease you , if among these favourite names you happen to discover your own ; it being ...
... correspondents whose pieces are the most numerous , and whose names and characters do me the greatest honour . It will not therefore , I hope , displease you , if among these favourite names you happen to discover your own ; it being ...
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... correspondents commanded from me ; yet so partial have I been to your talents and abilities , that you must own I have never , through the whole course of the work , refused any one of your lucubrations : insomuch that I greatly fear my ...
... correspondents commanded from me ; yet so partial have I been to your talents and abilities , that you must own I have never , through the whole course of the work , refused any one of your lucubrations : insomuch that I greatly fear my ...
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... correspondent , I have published his letter in the manner I received it . But I must entreat the next time I have the favour of hearing from him , that he will contrive to be a little more new in his subject ; for I am fully persuaded ...
... correspondent , I have published his letter in the manner I received it . But I must entreat the next time I have the favour of hearing from him , that he will contrive to be a little more new in his subject ; for I am fully persuaded ...
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Página 108 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Página 128 - Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western clime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus differs from the throng The spirit which inform'd thy awful song, Which bade thy potent voice protect thy country's fame.
Página 301 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 296 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 63 - I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject ; your man shan't stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBRoKE,
Página 224 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Página 315 - That if we inquire into the cause of all human corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the impunity of crimes, and not from the moderation of punishments.
Página 337 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Página 254 - ... them; and thus, often misled by sounds, and not always secured by sense, they are hurried into fatal errors, which they do not give their understandings fair play enough to prevent. In explaining words, therefore, and bringing them back to their true signification, one may sometimes happen to expose and explode those errors, which the abuse of them both occasions and protects.
Página 40 - I venture to prognosticate will not attend the erroneous calculation of the present system. The day I mean is the first of April. The oldest tradition affirms that such an infatuation attends the first day of that month, as no foresight can escape, no vigilance can defeat. Deceit is successful on that day out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Grave citizens have been bit upon it; usurers have lent their money on bad security; experienced matrons have married very disappointing young fellows;...