The British Essayists, Հատոր 34Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1807 |
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... ment . At length the wished for period of their return approached : I heard of their arrival in Britain , and that , by a certain day , we might expect to see them at home . We were all impatience : my daughter , in particular , did ...
... ment . At length the wished for period of their return approached : I heard of their arrival in Britain , and that , by a certain day , we might expect to see them at home . We were all impatience : my daughter , in particular , did ...
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... ment , and depends for great part of its applause on the knack of hitting off a lucky allusion from the name to the person . Your brother essayists have been particularly indebted to this invention , for sup- plying them with a very ...
... ment , and depends for great part of its applause on the knack of hitting off a lucky allusion from the name to the person . Your brother essayists have been particularly indebted to this invention , for sup- plying them with a very ...
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... ment , when I beheld those very gentlemen quit their seats , and come down to pay their respects to the ladies in the lower boxes . The gross impropriety of this behaviour raised in me a degree of indignation which I could not easily ...
... ment , when I beheld those very gentlemen quit their seats , and come down to pay their respects to the ladies in the lower boxes . The gross impropriety of this behaviour raised in me a degree of indignation which I could not easily ...
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... ment ; but they may be pushed to a dangerous ex- treme . By that excess of sensibility to which they lead ; by that vanity which they flatter ; that idea of superiority which they nourish ; they may unfit their possessor for the common ...
... ment ; but they may be pushed to a dangerous ex- treme . By that excess of sensibility to which they lead ; by that vanity which they flatter ; that idea of superiority which they nourish ; they may unfit their possessor for the common ...
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... ment as much as any of the company . In place of cards , Miss Harriet insisted on the game of the goose . Down to it we sat ; and to a stranger it would have been not unamusing to see Mr. Fleetwood , in his sor- rowful countenance , at ...
... ment as much as any of the company . In place of cards , Miss Harriet insisted on the game of the goose . Down to it we sat ; and to a stranger it would have been not unamusing to see Mr. Fleetwood , in his sor- rowful countenance , at ...
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Էջ 111 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Էջ 261 - And, he gave it for his opinion, that, whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Էջ 174 - Now, Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Էջ 57 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course!
Էջ 112 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Էջ 57 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Էջ 178 - And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...
Էջ 174 - And count the silent moments as they pass; — "The winged moments, whose unstaying speed No art can stop or in their course arrest, Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest.
Էջ 206 - He found in them the guileless manner of the earliest times, with the culture and accomplishment of the most refined ones. Every better feeling, warm and vivid; every ungentle one, repressed or overcome. He was not addicted to love; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession of such a child. After a journey of eleven days they arrived at the dwelling of La Roche. It was situated in one of those valleys of the canton of Berne,...
Էջ 58 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.