The British Essayists;: TatlerJ. 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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... hope that printing the letters directed to him , which I know not how to answer , will bring him speedily ; and , therefore , I add also the following : MR . BİCKERSTAFF , July 5 , 1709 . " You have hinted a generous intention of taking ...
... hope that printing the letters directed to him , which I know not how to answer , will bring him speedily ; and , therefore , I add also the following : MR . BİCKERSTAFF , July 5 , 1709 . " You have hinted a generous intention of taking ...
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... hope to have the honour of congratulating your Majesty on the suc- cess of a great action : and you shall be very well satisfied with the Marshal Villars . ' * Mrs . Distaff hath received the Dialogue dated Monday evening , which she ...
... hope to have the honour of congratulating your Majesty on the suc- cess of a great action : and you shall be very well satisfied with the Marshal Villars . ' * Mrs . Distaff hath received the Dialogue dated Monday evening , which she ...
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... hope he has got to - night safe from all sneerers in his own parlour . St. James's Coffee - house , July 20 . This morning we received by express the agree able news of the surrender of the town of Tournay on the twenty - eighth instant ...
... hope he has got to - night safe from all sneerers in his own parlour . St. James's Coffee - house , July 20 . This morning we received by express the agree able news of the surrender of the town of Tournay on the twenty - eighth instant ...
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... hope for an opportunity of thanking Mr. Withers next winter in this place , for the service he has done his country . No man deserves better of his friends than that gentleman , whose distinguishing character it is , that he gives his ...
... hope for an opportunity of thanking Mr. Withers next winter in this place , for the service he has done his country . No man deserves better of his friends than that gentleman , whose distinguishing character it is , that he gives his ...
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... hope , we shall see him abroad the day before his poem . This , you see , is a particular secret I have found out , viz . that you are not to choose your physician for his knowledge in your distemper , but for having 6 it himself ...
... hope , we shall see him abroad the day before his poem . This , you see , is a particular secret I have found out , viz . that you are not to choose your physician for his knowledge in your distemper , but for having 6 it himself ...
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Стр. 74 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Стр. 116 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Стр. 44 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Стр. 201 - His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation ; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding to the propriety of speech, which might pass the criticism of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes.
Стр. 301 - ... turns and windings ; and though they were as active as any in their motions, they made but little progress in the ascent. These as my guide informed me, were men of subtle tempers, and puzzled politics, who would supply the place of real wisdom with cunning and artifice.
Стр. 304 - Alexander, who was very well acquainted with Homer, stood up at his entrance and placed him on his right hand. The virgin, who it seems was one of the nine sisters that attended on the goddess of Fame, smiled with an ineffable grace at their meeting, and retired. Julius Caesar was now coming forward ; and though most of the historians offered their service to introduce him, he left them at the door, and would have no conductor but himself.
Стр. 307 - I desired my guide, for variety, to lead me to the fabulous apartment, the roof of which was painted with gorgons, chimeras, and centaurs, with many other emblematical figures, which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle. The first table was almost full: at the upper end sat Hercules, leaning an arm upon his club...
Стр. 200 - Thus, as a certain insensibility in the countenance recommends a sentence of humour and jest, so it must be a very lively consciousness that gives grace to great sentiments. The jest is to be a thing unexpected ; therefore your...
Стр. 299 - ... reputation. The best and greatest actions have proceeded from the prospect of the one or the other of these ; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter, as the principal reward of their labours.
Стр. 300 - ... sweet and harmonious, that it filled the hearts of those who heard it with raptures, and gave such high and delightful sensations, as seemed to animate and raise human nature above itself.