The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 - English essays |
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... VIRG . Ecl . ix . 34 . But I discern their flatt'ry from their praise . DRYDEN . FOR want of time to substitute something else in room of them , I am at present obliged to publish compliments above my desert in the following letters ...
... VIRG . Ecl . ix . 34 . But I discern their flatt'ry from their praise . DRYDEN . FOR want of time to substitute something else in room of them , I am at present obliged to publish compliments above my desert in the following letters ...
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... VIRG . Æn . i . 409 . And by her graceful walk the queen of love is known . DRYDEN . WHEN Eneas , the hero of Virgil is lost in the wood , and a perfect stranger in the place on which he is landed , he is accosted by a lady in an habit ...
... VIRG . Æn . i . 409 . And by her graceful walk the queen of love is known . DRYDEN . WHEN Eneas , the hero of Virgil is lost in the wood , and a perfect stranger in the place on which he is landed , he is accosted by a lady in an habit ...
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... VIRG . En . iii . 660 . This only solace his hard fortune sends . DRYDEN . I RECEIVED Some time ago a proposal , which had a preface to it , wherein the author discoursed at large of the innumerable objects of charity in a nation , and ...
... VIRG . En . iii . 660 . This only solace his hard fortune sends . DRYDEN . I RECEIVED Some time ago a proposal , which had a preface to it , wherein the author discoursed at large of the innumerable objects of charity in a nation , and ...
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... VIRG . Æn . iv . 466 .. To wander in her sleep through ways unknown , Guideless and dark . ' DRYDEN . But this observation I only make by the way . What I would here remark , is that wonderful power in the soul , of producing her own ...
... VIRG . Æn . iv . 466 .. To wander in her sleep through ways unknown , Guideless and dark . ' DRYDEN . But this observation I only make by the way . What I would here remark , is that wonderful power in the soul , of producing her own ...
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... VIRG . Æn . iii . $ 18 . A just reverse of fortune on him waits . It is common with me to run from book to book to exercise my mind with many objects , and qualify myself for my daily labours . After an hour spent in this loitering way ...
... VIRG . Æn . iii . $ 18 . A just reverse of fortune on him waits . It is common with me to run from book to book to exercise my mind with many objects , and qualify myself for my daily labours . After an hour spent in this loitering way ...
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Page 99 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 64 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 63 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 70 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole...
Page 174 - We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason, and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Page 71 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 12 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 294 - WHEN rising from the bed of death, O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, I see my Maker, face to face, O how shall I appear!
Page 182 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 84 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.