The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... meet with , and returns none of it in love to her admirers . " DEAR JENNY , The “ I am glad to find you are likely to be disposed of in marriage so much to your approbation , as you tell me . You say you are afraid only of me , for I ...
... meet with , and returns none of it in love to her admirers . " DEAR JENNY , The “ I am glad to find you are likely to be disposed of in marriage so much to your approbation , as you tell me . You say you are afraid only of me , for I ...
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... from every circumstance which they meet with . He will lay out his invention in forming new pleasures and amusements , and make the fortune she has brought him subservient to the honour and reputation of her and 34 N ° 522 . SPECTATOR .
... from every circumstance which they meet with . He will lay out his invention in forming new pleasures and amusements , and make the fortune she has brought him subservient to the honour and reputation of her and 34 N ° 522 . SPECTATOR .
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... meet with such a reward from its patrons as so noble a per- formance deserves . I was particularly well pleased to find that the author had not amused himself with fables out of the pagan theology , and that when he hints at any thing ...
... meet with such a reward from its patrons as so noble a per- formance deserves . I was particularly well pleased to find that the author had not amused himself with fables out of the pagan theology , and that when he hints at any thing ...
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... meet and face one another , to the no little amazement of many of them . " In the midst of the plain there was a great foun- tain ; they called it the spring of Self - love : out of it issued two rivulets to the eastward and westward ...
... meet and face one another , to the no little amazement of many of them . " In the midst of the plain there was a great foun- tain ; they called it the spring of Self - love : out of it issued two rivulets to the eastward and westward ...
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... meet with in the town . I am glad to find , in particular , that my discourses on marriage have been well received . A friend of mine gives me to understand , from Doctors ' Commons , that more li- cences have been taken out there of ...
... meet with in the town . I am glad to find , in particular , that my discourses on marriage have been well received . A friend of mine gives me to understand , from Doctors ' Commons , that more li- cences have been taken out there of ...
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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?