The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... received private advice from some of my correspondents , that if I would give my paper a general run , I should take care to season it with scandal . I have indeed observed of late , that few writings sell which are not filled with ...
... received private advice from some of my correspondents , that if I would give my paper a general run , I should take care to season it with scandal . I have indeed observed of late , that few writings sell which are not filled with ...
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... received the following essay against quacks , which I shall here communicate to my readers for the good of the public , begging the writer's pardon for those additions and retrenchments which I have made in it . The desire of life is so ...
... received the following essay against quacks , which I shall here communicate to my readers for the good of the public , begging the writer's pardon for those additions and retrenchments which I have made in it . The desire of life is so ...
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... received the message carried it up to his master , who inquiring whether the per- son came on foot or in a chariot , and being informed that he was on foot : " Go , " says he , " send the knave about his business : was his method as ...
... received the message carried it up to his master , who inquiring whether the per- son came on foot or in a chariot , and being informed that he was on foot : " Go , " says he , " send the knave about his business : was his method as ...
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... receiving consolation so soon after the death of our dears , and the number we are pleased to admit for our companions ; but you never reflect what husbands we have buried , and how short a sorrow the loss of them was capa- ble of ...
... receiving consolation so soon after the death of our dears , and the number we are pleased to admit for our companions ; but you never reflect what husbands we have buried , and how short a sorrow the loss of them was capa- ble of ...
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... received more pleasure in my life than from this declaration ; but I cómposed my face to a grave air , and said the news of his engagement had touched me to the heart , that in a rash jealous fit I had married a man I could never have ...
... received more pleasure in my life than from this declaration ; but I cómposed my face to a grave air , and said the news of his engagement had touched me to the heart , that in a rash jealous fit I had married a man I could never have ...
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Страница 256 - But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
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 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 114 - 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 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Страница 269 - ... them. So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is...
Страница 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Страница 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Страница 112 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Страница 16 - First, How disconsolate is the Condition of an intellectual Being who is thus present with his Maker, but, at the same time, receives no extraordinary Benefit or Advantage from this his Presence! ''Secondly, How deplorable is the Condition of an intellectual Being who feels no other Effects from this his Presence but such as proceed from Divine Wrath and Indignation!