The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy . On the contrary , cheerfulness , though it does not VOL ...
... short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy . On the contrary , cheerfulness , though it does not VOL ...
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... short , we depend upon a Being , whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means , whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him , and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this ...
... short , we depend upon a Being , whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means , whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him , and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this ...
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... short pause , the old knight , turning about his head twice or thrice , to take a survey of this great metropolis , bid me observe how thick the city was set with churches , and that there was scarce a single steeple on this side Temple ...
... short pause , the old knight , turning about his head twice or thrice , to take a survey of this great metropolis , bid me observe how thick the city was set with churches , and that there was scarce a single steeple on this side Temple ...
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... short , the whole universe is a kind of theatre , filled with objects that either raise in us pleasure , amusement , or admiration . The reader's own thoughts will suggest to him the vicissitude of day and night , the change of seasons ...
... short , the whole universe is a kind of theatre , filled with objects that either raise in us pleasure , amusement , or admiration . The reader's own thoughts will suggest to him the vicissitude of day and night , the change of seasons ...
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... short fable , which has no pretence in it to reason or argument , and but a very small share of wit , has however recommended itself , wholly by its impiety , to those weak men who would distinguish themselves by the singularity of ...
... short fable , which has no pretence in it to reason or argument , and but a very small share of wit , has however recommended itself , wholly by its impiety , to those weak men who would distinguish themselves by the singularity of ...
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Æneid affection agreeable AIS Poet appear attend beauty behaviour behold better Callisthenes character cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation CORNELIUS NEPOS creature cuckold custom Cynthio delight desire discourse divine dress endeavour English entertainment Epig excellent fancy father Fidelia Floralia fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy heart Honeycomb honour humble servant humour ideas imagination indifferent infirmary irreligion JULY 26 JUNE 20 Jupiter kind lady live look mankind manner ment mind nerally never niscience objects observed OVID pain paper particular pass passion perfection person pleased pleasure poet poetry present proper racter reason received reflexions relish Roger de Coverley secret Sempronia sense sight soul SPECTATOR stage taste temn temper thing thor thou thought tion town twenty-third psalm VIRG virtue whole woman women words writing
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Էջ 201 - care : His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. ir. ' When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant; To fertile
Էջ 201 - and dewy meads My weary, wand'ring steps he leads; . Where peaceful rivers, soft, and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. III. « Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My stedfast heart shall fear no ill,
Էջ 107 - inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and
Էջ vii - always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not
Էջ 107 - more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with, its ideas; so that by ' the pleasures of the imagination,' or ' fancy,
Էջ 201 - Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ANON. MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset with dangers on
Էջ 8 - as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe; that London bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the seven wonders of the world ; with many other honest
Էջ 131 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heav'n with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Էջ 198 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber ; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings
Էջ 8 - You must know," says sir Roger, ' I never make use of any body to row me, that has not lost either a leg or an arm. I would rather bate him a few strokes of his oar than not employ an honest man that has been wounded in the queen's service. If I was a lord