The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... known to the public in a sprightly song , written by Francklin , the translator of Sophocles and Lucian , in the person of Miss Hamilton , and ingeniously quibbling upon the equivoque of Moore and More . If he had any hopes of political ...
... known to the public in a sprightly song , written by Francklin , the translator of Sophocles and Lucian , in the person of Miss Hamilton , and ingeniously quibbling upon the equivoque of Moore and More . If he had any hopes of political ...
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... known throughout Europe as inferior to none of his rank for bril- liancy of wit and the polish of cultivated society . Lord Chesterfield had no legitimate issue ; but he found full exercise for his paternal affections in the education ...
... known throughout Europe as inferior to none of his rank for bril- liancy of wit and the polish of cultivated society . Lord Chesterfield had no legitimate issue ; but he found full exercise for his paternal affections in the education ...
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... known among us as that of printing or of making gunpowder . Whoever is acquainted with the writings of those eminent practitioners in physic , who make their appearance either in hand - bills , or in the weekly or daily papers , will ...
... known among us as that of printing or of making gunpowder . Whoever is acquainted with the writings of those eminent practitioners in physic , who make their appearance either in hand - bills , or in the weekly or daily papers , will ...
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... known that the pantomime of the Genii narrowly escaped . being damned , on my Lady Maxim's observing very judiciously , that the brick- kiln was horridly executed , and did not smell at all like one . When this entire castigation of ...
... known that the pantomime of the Genii narrowly escaped . being damned , on my Lady Maxim's observing very judiciously , that the brick- kiln was horridly executed , and did not smell at all like one . When this entire castigation of ...
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... known that a celebrated confectioner ( so the architects of our desserts still humbly call themselves ) complained , that after having prepared a middle dish of gods and goddesses , eighteen feet high , his lord would not cause the ...
... known that a celebrated confectioner ( so the architects of our desserts still humbly call themselves ) complained , that after having prepared a middle dish of gods and goddesses , eighteen feet high , his lord would not cause the ...
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Страница 108 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Страница 128 - Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western clime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus differs from the throng The spirit which inform'd thy awful song, Which bade thy potent voice protect thy country's fame.
Страница 301 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Страница 296 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Страница 63 - I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject ; your man shan't stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBRoKE,
Страница 224 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Страница 315 - That if we inquire into the cause of all human corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the impunity of crimes, and not from the moderation of punishments.
Страница 337 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Страница 254 - ... them; and thus, often misled by sounds, and not always secured by sense, they are hurried into fatal errors, which they do not give their understandings fair play enough to prevent. In explaining words, therefore, and bringing them back to their true signification, one may sometimes happen to expose and explode those errors, which the abuse of them both occasions and protects.
Страница 40 - I venture to prognosticate will not attend the erroneous calculation of the present system. The day I mean is the first of April. The oldest tradition affirms that such an infatuation attends the first day of that month, as no foresight can escape, no vigilance can defeat. Deceit is successful on that day out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Grave citizens have been bit upon it; usurers have lent their money on bad security; experienced matrons have married very disappointing young fellows;...