The British Essayists, Հատոր 20Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... advantage , both to the publick and themselves , apply their under- standing to domestick arts , and store their minds with axioms of humble prudence and private economy . Your late paper on frugality was very elegant and pleasing , but ...
... advantage , both to the publick and themselves , apply their under- standing to domestick arts , and store their minds with axioms of humble prudence and private economy . Your late paper on frugality was very elegant and pleasing , but ...
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... advantages , and much less splendour , when we are suffered to approach it . It is the business of moralists to detect the frauds of fortune , and to shew that she imposes upon the care- less eye , by a quick succession of shadows ...
... advantages , and much less splendour , when we are suffered to approach it . It is the business of moralists to detect the frauds of fortune , and to shew that she imposes upon the care- less eye , by a quick succession of shadows ...
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... advantage posterity can receive from the only circumstance by which Tickell has distinguished Addison from the rest of mankind , the irregularity of his pulse : nor can I think myself overpaid for the time spent in reading the life of ...
... advantage posterity can receive from the only circumstance by which Tickell has distinguished Addison from the rest of mankind , the irregularity of his pulse : nor can I think myself overpaid for the time spent in reading the life of ...
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... advantage of this re- verential modesty , and impose upon rustick under- standings with a false show of universal intelligence ; for I do not find that they are willing to own them- selves ignorant of any thing , or that they dismiss ...
... advantage of this re- verential modesty , and impose upon rustick under- standings with a false show of universal intelligence ; for I do not find that they are willing to own them- selves ignorant of any thing , or that they dismiss ...
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... advantage over us , but by catches of interruption , briskness of interrogation , and pertness of contempt ; and therefore if he has stunned the world with his name , and gained a place in the first ranks of humanity , I cannot but ...
... advantage over us , but by catches of interruption , briskness of interrogation , and pertness of contempt ; and therefore if he has stunned the world with his name , and gained a place in the first ranks of humanity , I cannot but ...
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Էջ 34 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Էջ 208 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 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' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Էջ 193 - 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 64 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
Էջ 62 - Here Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence, and that the plain was dusty and uneven, he resolved to pursue the new path, which he supposed only to make a few meanders, in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected he was not gaining ground.
Էջ 220 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Էջ 35 - 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 63 - At length, not fear, but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude....
Էջ 193 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Էջ 77 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.