The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. 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], 1807 - English essays |
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... scene to seize the imagination with rap- ture ; a poet's language would have run spontane- ously into metre at the sight of it : What a sub . ject , ' said I within myself is here present for those ingenious bards , who have the happy ...
... scene to seize the imagination with rap- ture ; a poet's language would have run spontane- ously into metre at the sight of it : What a sub . ject , ' said I within myself is here present for those ingenious bards , who have the happy ...
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... scene begins Of human habitation , thinly group'd Over the meagre earth ; for there no youth No sturdy peasant , who ... scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with prosperity , but warm With grateful adoration ...
... scene begins Of human habitation , thinly group'd Over the meagre earth ; for there no youth No sturdy peasant , who ... scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with prosperity , but warm With grateful adoration ...
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... Titanian fires around , And cancels Heaven's high edict ; Nature feels Quick growth and quick decay ; the verdant scene Glitters awhile and vanishes at once . Not such the tints that Albion's landscape wears , Her N ° 57 . 43 OBSERVER .
... Titanian fires around , And cancels Heaven's high edict ; Nature feels Quick growth and quick decay ; the verdant scene Glitters awhile and vanishes at once . Not such the tints that Albion's landscape wears , Her N ° 57 . 43 OBSERVER .
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... scene Enamour'd , native here prolongs his stay , And when his fiery successor at length Warns him from hence , with ling'ring step and slow , And many a stream of falling tears he parts , Like one , whom surly creditors arrest In a ...
... scene Enamour'd , native here prolongs his stay , And when his fiery successor at length Warns him from hence , with ling'ring step and slow , And many a stream of falling tears he parts , Like one , whom surly creditors arrest In a ...
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... at the price . Down sunk the vision of prosperity ; swifter than the shifting of a play - house scene vanished all the enchanting prospect ; a naked lodge in a warren N ° 58 . with content had been more enviable F 2 No 58 . 51 OBSERVER .
... at the price . Down sunk the vision of prosperity ; swifter than the shifting of a play - house scene vanished all the enchanting prospect ; a naked lodge in a warren N ° 58 . with content had been more enviable F 2 No 58 . 51 OBSERVER .
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Page 88 - Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 94 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 119 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 230 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Page 134 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...
Page 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 101 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent ; 52.
Page 125 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.