The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 3Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 - English essays |
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... Nature , who has in some instances been lavish in her bounties to me , has in others been rather too unkind , and , indeed , remarkably niggard of her favours . Vanity , for example , she has so exu- berantly poured upon me , that my ...
... Nature , who has in some instances been lavish in her bounties to me , has in others been rather too unkind , and , indeed , remarkably niggard of her favours . Vanity , for example , she has so exu- berantly poured upon me , that my ...
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... nature has , in my case , made on that vanity and self - ap- plause which contributes more or less to the happiness of every man and woman in the world , is most unfortunately external ; visible to all eyes , open to general observation ...
... nature has , in my case , made on that vanity and self - ap- plause which contributes more or less to the happiness of every man and woman in the world , is most unfortunately external ; visible to all eyes , open to general observation ...
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... Nature , that seems to have been made , like a girl's doll , to divert the good lady in her infancy ; a little without a tittle o'top ; an human figure in miniature ; a make - weight in the scale of mortality ; a minim of nature a ...
... Nature , that seems to have been made , like a girl's doll , to divert the good lady in her infancy ; a little without a tittle o'top ; an human figure in miniature ; a make - weight in the scale of mortality ; a minim of nature a ...
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... nature , or recorded in Scripture , at the truth of which I am more apt to repine , than that no man is able to add ... natural inconveniences of being trampled on and run over in a crowd , almost pressed to death by huge fellows and fat ...
... nature , or recorded in Scripture , at the truth of which I am more apt to repine , than that no man is able to add ... natural inconveniences of being trampled on and run over in a crowd , almost pressed to death by huge fellows and fat ...
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... nature , the Italian giant , scarce less than eight feet high ! While the rest of the company were walking under his arm , he seemed to ex- . pect that I should have crept between his legs ; and when I offered to present him with the ...
... nature , the Italian giant , scarce less than eight feet high ! While the rest of the company were walking under his arm , he seemed to ex- . pect that I should have crept between his legs ; and when I offered to present him with the ...
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Page 236 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 236 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 236 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 149 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 160 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, -And made so welcome at their simple feast...
Page 149 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.
Page 201 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shalt arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.
Page 54 - For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.
Page 151 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 37 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.