The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... able to live in the greatest extremities of love , concludes the torrid zone to be habitable . When his mistress has read his letter written in juice of lemon , by holding it to the fire , he desires her to read it over a second time by ...
... able to live in the greatest extremities of love , concludes the torrid zone to be habitable . When his mistress has read his letter written in juice of lemon , by holding it to the fire , he desires her to read it over a second time by ...
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... able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irre- gular fancy . Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a ...
... able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans , have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irre- gular fancy . Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a ...
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... able to overtake him . Observing several to be very busy at the western end of the temple , I enquired into what they were doing , and found there was in that quarter the great magazine of rebusses . These were several things of You the ...
... able to overtake him . Observing several to be very busy at the western end of the temple , I enquired into what they were doing , and found there was in that quarter the great magazine of rebusses . These were several things of You the ...
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... able now to walk , than she was to go at a year old . By walking , you will easily know I mean that regular but easy motion which gives our persons so irresistible a grace as if we moved to music , and is a kind of disengaged figure ...
... able now to walk , than she was to go at a year old . By walking , you will easily know I mean that regular but easy motion which gives our persons so irresistible a grace as if we moved to music , and is a kind of disengaged figure ...
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... able , however , to give my final sentence against this diversion ; and am of Mr. Cowley's opi- nion , that so much of dancing , at least , as belongs to the behaviour and an handsome carriage of the body , is extremely useful , if not ...
... able , however , to give my final sentence against this diversion ; and am of Mr. Cowley's opi- nion , that so much of dancing , at least , as belongs to the behaviour and an handsome carriage of the body , is extremely useful , if not ...
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Страница 235 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Страница 282 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world : if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public...
Страница 233 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean...
Страница 236 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Страница 237 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother.
Страница 43 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Страница 138 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Страница 213 - 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 the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction.
Страница 212 - Roger, found me out this gentleman who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is.
Страница 212 - 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 back-gammon.