The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time , though we give them no encouragement : as the tossings and fluctuations of the sea continue several hours after the winds are laid . VOL . VI . B It is to this that I impute my ...
... thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time , though we give them no encouragement : as the tossings and fluctuations of the sea continue several hours after the winds are laid . VOL . VI . B It is to this that I impute my ...
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... thoughts , that she raises in her beholders admiration and good - will , but no loose hope or wild imagination . The true art in * Erudition seems to be used here in an uncommon sense , for cultivation or instruction . this case it to ...
... thoughts , that she raises in her beholders admiration and good - will , but no loose hope or wild imagination . The true art in * Erudition seems to be used here in an uncommon sense , for cultivation or instruction . this case it to ...
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... thought , and not let thought be employed upon ges- ture . R No. 67. THURSDAY , MAY 17 , 1711 . Saltare elegantiùs quàm necesse est probæ . Too fine a dancer for a virtuous woman . SALL . B. CAT . LUCIAN in one of his dialogues ...
... thought , and not let thought be employed upon ges- ture . R No. 67. THURSDAY , MAY 17 , 1711 . Saltare elegantiùs quàm necesse est probæ . Too fine a dancer for a virtuous woman . SALL . B. CAT . LUCIAN in one of his dialogues ...
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... thought it had been in the child . They very often made use of a most impudent and lascivious step , called setting , ' which I know not how to describe to you , but by telling you that it is the very reverse of back to back . ' At last ...
... thought it had been in the child . They very often made use of a most impudent and lascivious step , called setting , ' which I know not how to describe to you , but by telling you that it is the very reverse of back to back . ' At last ...
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... thought that few ladies ' hearts are so obdurate as not to be melted by the charms of music , the force of motion , and an handsome young fellow , who is continually playing before their eyes , and convincing them that he has the ...
... thought that few ladies ' hearts are so obdurate as not to be melted by the charms of music , the force of motion , and an handsome young fellow , who is continually playing before their eyes , and convincing them that he has the ...
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Էջ 204 - Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon.
Էջ 31 - 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 assistances of art...
Էջ 225 - ... the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose ? Can He delight in the production of such abortive intelligences, such short-lived reasonable beings ? Would He give us talents that are not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified...
Էջ 212 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.
Էջ 205 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Էջ 202 - ROGER'S Family, because it consists of sober and staid Persons; for as the Knight is the best Master in the World, he seldom changes his Servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his Servants never care for leaving him: By this Means his Domesticks are all in Years, and grown old with their Master. You would take his Valet...
Էջ 130 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Էջ 58 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Էջ 228 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Էջ 35 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar...