The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... thought the Spectator had gone too far in writing so many letters of my lady Q - p - t - s's name ; but , however , ' says I , ' he has made a little amends for it in his next sentence , where he leaves a blank space without so much as ...
... thought the Spectator had gone too far in writing so many letters of my lady Q - p - t - s's name ; but , however , ' says I , ' he has made a little amends for it in his next sentence , where he leaves a blank space without so much as ...
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... thoughts . ROSCOMMON . No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in . One would wonder how drunken- ness should have the good luck to be of this number . Anacharsis , being invited to a match of drinking at Corinth ...
... thoughts . ROSCOMMON . No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in . One would wonder how drunken- ness should have the good luck to be of this number . Anacharsis , being invited to a match of drinking at Corinth ...
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... thought by an adven- ture I lately met with . I was the other day at a tavern , where the master of the house accommodating us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into a discourse with ; and talking of a certain ...
... thought by an adven- ture I lately met with . I was the other day at a tavern , where the master of the house accommodating us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into a discourse with ; and talking of a certain ...
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... thought . you C SIR , ' IN your paper of Friday the 9th instant , had occasion to consider the ubiquity of the Godhead , and at the same time to shew , that , as he is present to every thing , he cannot but be atten- tive to every thing ...
... thought . you C SIR , ' IN your paper of Friday the 9th instant , had occasion to consider the ubiquity of the Godhead , and at the same time to shew , that , as he is present to every thing , he cannot but be atten- tive to every thing ...
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... thought of being an outcast from his presence , that is , from the com- forts of it , or of feeling it only in its terrors ? How pathetic is that expostulation of Job , when for the trial of his patience he was made to look upon him ...
... thought of being an outcast from his presence , that is , from the com- forts of it , or of feeling it only in its terrors ? How pathetic is that expostulation of Job , when for the trial of his patience he was made to look upon him ...
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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!