The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Том 36 |
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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 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 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 irresist- ible 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 irresist- ible 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 294 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge ? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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Страница 283 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that Means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several Times Foreman of the Petty-Jury. The other that rides along with him is Tom Touchy, a Fellow famous for taking the Law of every Body.
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Страница 211 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
Страница 39 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the...
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Страница 232 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn x 2 from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it; which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others who have written on this subject, though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it.
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Страница 64 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...