The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Том 15 |
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... or forehead in a perpendicular posture . Ambition has taught some to write with their feet , and others to walk upon their hands . Some tumble into fame , others grow immortal by throwing themselves through a hoop . N ° 570 . SPECTATOR .
... or forehead in a perpendicular posture . Ambition has taught some to write with their feet , and others to walk upon their hands . Some tumble into fame , others grow immortal by throwing themselves through a hoop . N ° 570 . SPECTATOR .
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... walk near the house , and entertain myself with some agreeable author . Now , you must know , Mr. Spectator , that when I read , especially if it be poetry , it is very usual with me , when I meet with any passage or expression which ...
... walk near the house , and entertain myself with some agreeable author . Now , you must know , Mr. Spectator , that when I read , especially if it be poetry , it is very usual with me , when I meet with any passage or expression which ...
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... walk under those shades which our own in- dustry has raised . Amusements of this nature compose the mind , and lay at rest all those pas- sions which are uneasy to the soul of man , besides VOL . XV . H that they naturally engender good ...
... walk under those shades which our own in- dustry has raised . Amusements of this nature compose the mind , and lay at rest all those pas- sions which are uneasy to the soul of man , besides VOL . XV . H that they naturally engender good ...
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... walks , and lawns , and gardens ; insomuch that the whole region , from a naked and desolate prospect , began now to look like a second Paradise . The pleasantness of the place , and the agreeable disposition of Shalum , who was ...
... walks , and lawns , and gardens ; insomuch that the whole region , from a naked and desolate prospect , began now to look like a second Paradise . The pleasantness of the place , and the agreeable disposition of Shalum , who was ...
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... walk in my gardens ; but then I have taken care to leave the space , between every walk as much a wood as I found it . The moment you turn either to the right or left you are in a forest , where nature presents you with a much more beau ...
... walk in my gardens ; but then I have taken care to leave the space , between every walk as much a wood as I found it . The moment you turn either to the right or left you are in a forest , where nature presents you with a much more beau ...
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acquainted Aglaüs agreeable alderman appear bacon bailiff battle of Blenheim beauty body casuist consider creature dear delight desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain eternity eyes faculties fair ladies fancy favours flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination inclinations kind king lady Lancelot Addison Lesbia letter light lived look lord of Whichenovre lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours never night observed occasion OCTOBER 15 OVID pain paper passion persons Phoebe pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Richard Cumberland secret Shalum sight soul SPECTATOR stancy sure taborets tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY whole widow wife words write young
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Страница 256 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Страница 104 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Страница 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Страница 36 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Страница 113 - Our inimitable Shakespear is a stumbling-block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics. Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Страница 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Страница 18 - God is present with us, by the effects which he produceth in us. Our outward senses are too gross to apprehend him; we may, however, taste and see how gracious he is, by his influence upon our minds, by those virtuous thoughts which he awakens in us, by those secret comforts and refreshments which he...
Страница 209 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Страница 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Страница 35 - Hammond, written by Bishop FelL As this good man was troubled with a complication of distempers, when he had the gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the stone ; and when he had the stone, that he had not both these distempers on him at the same time.