The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... acquainted , to find one who was in- timate with a friend of mine , and to be introduced to her notice . I have made so good a use of my time , as to procure from that intimate of others one of her letters , which she writ to her when ...
... acquainted , to find one who was in- timate with a friend of mine , and to be introduced to her notice . I have made so good a use of my time , as to procure from that intimate of others one of her letters , which she writ to her when ...
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... acquainted with , lies waste and useless , those great bodies , which are at such a distance from us , should not be desert and unpeo- pled , but rather that they should be furnished with beings adapted to their respective situations ...
... acquainted with , lies waste and useless , those great bodies , which are at such a distance from us , should not be desert and unpeo- pled , but rather that they should be furnished with beings adapted to their respective situations ...
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... acquainted with the way of bargaining on these occasions ; and the other from his rival , who has a less estate , but great gallantry of temper . As for my man of prudence , he makes love , as he says , as if he were already a father ...
... acquainted with the way of bargaining on these occasions ; and the other from his rival , who has a less estate , but great gallantry of temper . As for my man of prudence , he makes love , as he says , as if he were already a father ...
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... acquainted with the system of pagan theology ; and we may be al- lowed to enliven a theme , or point an epigram , with a heathen god ; but when we could write a manly panegyric that should carry in it all the colours of truth , nothing ...
... acquainted with the system of pagan theology ; and we may be al- lowed to enliven a theme , or point an epigram , with a heathen god ; but when we could write a manly panegyric that should carry in it all the colours of truth , nothing ...
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... acquaintance , who have never seen him in his retirement , are sharers in the happiness of it ; and it is very much owing to his being the best and best beloved of husbands , that he is the most steadfast of friends , and the most ...
... acquaintance , who have never seen him in his retirement , are sharers in the happiness of it ; and it is very much owing to his being the best and best beloved of husbands , that he is the most steadfast of friends , and the most ...
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Стр. 118 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Стр. 117 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Стр. 12 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Стр. 197 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Стр. 118 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.
Стр. 113 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to 'small purpose yron wedges made; Those be unquiet thoughts, that carefull minds invade.
Стр. 118 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Стр. 202 - The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features: one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one.
Стр. 228 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Стр. 119 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?