The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 |
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... give occasion only to some subtilties of reasoning , or elegancies of declamation , which are heard , applauded , and forgotten . It is , indeed , not hard to conceive how a man accustomed to extend his views through a long ...
... give occasion only to some subtilties of reasoning , or elegancies of declamation , which are heard , applauded , and forgotten . It is , indeed , not hard to conceive how a man accustomed to extend his views through a long ...
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... gives motion to the active , and elevation to the eminent , all that sparkles in the eye of hope , and pants in the bosom of suspicion , at once be- came dust in the balance , without weight and without regard . Riches , authority , and ...
... gives motion to the active , and elevation to the eminent , all that sparkles in the eye of hope , and pants in the bosom of suspicion , at once be- came dust in the balance , without weight and without regard . Riches , authority , and ...
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... have thought myself under great obligations had she not accompanied her favour with some hints that my mamma might now consider her age , and give me her ear- rings , which she had shewn long enough in pub- 20 No. 55 . RAMBLER ,
... have thought myself under great obligations had she not accompanied her favour with some hints that my mamma might now consider her age , and give me her ear- rings , which she had shewn long enough in pub- 20 No. 55 . RAMBLER ,
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... give up all the sweets of kindness for the sake of peevishness , petulance , or gloom ; and al- ienate the world by neglect of the common forms of civility , and breach of the established laws of conversation . Every one must , in the ...
... give up all the sweets of kindness for the sake of peevishness , petulance , or gloom ; and al- ienate the world by neglect of the common forms of civility , and breach of the established laws of conversation . Every one must , in the ...
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... give themselves up implicitly to the direction of the bold , the turbulent , and the over- bearing ; of those whom they do not believe wiser or better than themselves ; to recede from the best designs where opposition must be ...
... give themselves up implicitly to the direction of the bold , the turbulent , and the over- bearing ; of those whom they do not believe wiser or better than themselves ; to recede from the best designs where opposition must be ...
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acquaintance amusements attention babita beauty censure common considered contempt conversation critick curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dili diligence domestick DRYDEN duty endeavour envy equally eral esteem excellence expect eyes FALSEHOOD favour fear flattery folly fortune frequently friendship Gabba gaiety give gratifications happiness heart hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined innu inquiry invisible means justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look mankind ment Milton mind misery nature necessary neglect ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure portunity praise precepts publick quired RAMBLER reason regard rest rience SALLUST SATURDAY scarcely secret machinations seldom shew sions sometimes soon sophism sound stancy suffer syllables tenderness thing thou thought thousand tion truth TUESDAY vanity verse virtue wisdom wish
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Էջ 248 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Էջ 80 - ... us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made: that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at...
Էջ 239 - 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...
Էջ 80 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Էջ 47 - ... faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Էջ 210 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Էջ 224 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Էջ 47 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Էջ 223 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Էջ 199 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.