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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... thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infi- dels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil It is indeed no wonder , that men who are uneasy to themselves should be so to the rest of the world ...
... thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infi- dels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil It is indeed no wonder , that men who are uneasy to themselves should be so to the rest of the world ...
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... thought to have gone a good way in making him once or twice knight of the shire . He cannot forbear this exercise of bene- volence even in town , when he meets with any one in his morning or evening walk . It broke from him to several ...
... thought to have gone a good way in making him once or twice knight of the shire . He cannot forbear this exercise of bene- volence even in town , when he meets with any one in his morning or evening walk . It broke from him to several ...
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Alexander Chalmers. I have walked by myself , and thought on the widow by the music of the nightingale ! ' He here ... thoughts of the widow , told her she was a wanton baggage ; and bid her go about her business . We concluded our walk ...
Alexander Chalmers. I have walked by myself , and thought on the widow by the music of the nightingale ! ' He here ... thoughts of the widow , told her she was a wanton baggage ; and bid her go about her business . We concluded our walk ...
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... thought not able to read , should I over- look some excellent pieces lately come out . My lord bishop of St. Asaph + has just now published some sermons , the preface to which seems to me to deter- mine a great point . He has , like a ...
... thought not able to read , should I over- look some excellent pieces lately come out . My lord bishop of St. Asaph + has just now published some sermons , the preface to which seems to me to deter- mine a great point . He has , like a ...
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... thought a good Englishman , as well as a good clergyman . : This character I thought would be transmitted by the following sermons , which were made for and preached in a private audience , when I could think of nothing else but doing ...
... thought a good Englishman , as well as a good clergyman . : This character I thought would be transmitted by the following sermons , which were made for and preached in a private audience , when I could think of nothing else but doing ...
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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