The British Essayists, Հատոր 20Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... hours of an old friend : an office which has filled me , if not with melancholy , at least with serious reflections , and turned my thoughts towards the contemplation of those subjects , which , though of the utmost im- portance , and ...
... hours of an old friend : an office which has filled me , if not with melancholy , at least with serious reflections , and turned my thoughts towards the contemplation of those subjects , which , though of the utmost im- portance , and ...
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... hour will give proofs that he never felt it . Trace him through the day or year , and you will find him acting upon principles which he has in com- mon with the illiterate and unenlightened , angry and pleased like the lowest of the ...
... hour will give proofs that he never felt it . Trace him through the day or year , and you will find him acting upon principles which he has in com- mon with the illiterate and unenlightened , angry and pleased like the lowest of the ...
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... hour that his health declined , all his former plea- sures grew tasteless . His friends expected to please him by those accounts of the growth of his reputation , which were formerly certain of being well received ; but they soon found ...
... hour that his health declined , all his former plea- sures grew tasteless . His friends expected to please him by those accounts of the growth of his reputation , which were formerly certain of being well received ; but they soon found ...
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... hours of seriousness and wisdom , nothing appeared to raise his spirits , or gladden his heart , but the recollection of acts of goodness ; nor to excite his attention , but some opportunity for the exercise of the duties of religion ...
... hours of seriousness and wisdom , nothing appeared to raise his spirits , or gladden his heart , but the recollection of acts of goodness ; nor to excite his attention , but some opportunity for the exercise of the duties of religion ...
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... hours , her expences , and her com- pany ; and learned , by degrees , to drop an expression of contempt , or pity , at the mention of ladies whose husbands were suspected of restraining their pleasures or their play , and confessed that ...
... hours , her expences , and her com- pany ; and learned , by degrees , to drop an expression of contempt , or pity , at the mention of ladies whose husbands were suspected of restraining their pleasures or their play , and confessed that ...
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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.