The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volume 2Lionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... speak to thee ? how shall I address thee ? how shall I draw thee ? thou dear outside ! Will you be combing your wig , playing with your box , or picking your teeth ? or choosest thou rather to be speaking ; to be speaking for thy only ...
... speak to thee ? how shall I address thee ? how shall I draw thee ? thou dear outside ! Will you be combing your wig , playing with your box , or picking your teeth ? or choosest thou rather to be speaking ; to be speaking for thy only ...
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... Speak of a beautiful woman , and this puppy will whisper the next man to him , though he has nothing to say of her . He is a fly that feeds on the sore part , and would have nothing to live on if the whole body were in health . You may ...
... Speak of a beautiful woman , and this puppy will whisper the next man to him , though he has nothing to say of her . He is a fly that feeds on the sore part , and would have nothing to live on if the whole body were in health . You may ...
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... speaking ; accord- ing to which , the term certainly was to commence on the first instant . You may be sure , a man , who has turned his studies as I have , could not be mis- taken in point of time ; for , knowing I was to come to town ...
... speaking ; accord- ing to which , the term certainly was to commence on the first instant . You may be sure , a man , who has turned his studies as I have , could not be mis- taken in point of time ; for , knowing I was to come to town ...
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... speaking , a very worthy man assumed the discourse : This is , ' said he , ' Mr. Bickerstaff , a proper ar- gument for you to treat of in your article from this place ; and if you would send your Pacolet into all our brains , you would ...
... speaking , a very worthy man assumed the discourse : This is , ' said he , ' Mr. Bickerstaff , a proper ar- gument for you to treat of in your article from this place ; and if you would send your Pacolet into all our brains , you would ...
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... speak to the dishonour of Isaac Bickerstaff with great fa- miliarity ; and before all my learned friends in that place , takes upon him to dispute my title to the ap- pellation of esquire . I think I need not say much to convince all ...
... speak to the dishonour of Isaac Bickerstaff with great fa- miliarity ; and before all my learned friends in that place , takes upon him to dispute my title to the ap- pellation of esquire . I think I need not say much to convince all ...
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Page 278 - Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 42 - Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 110 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 71 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt...
Page 277 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 236 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away...
Page 288 - They here began to breathe a delicious kind of ether, and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of purple light...
Page 286 - ... others telescopes, and others pencils; some had laurels on their heads, and others buskins on their legs : in short, there was scarce any instrument of a mechanic art or liberal science which was not made use of on this occasion. My good...
Page 292 - I desired my guide, for variety, to lead me to the fabulous apartment, the roof of which was painted with gorgons, chimeras, and centaurs, with many other emblematical figures, which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle. The first table was almost full: at the upper end sat Hercules, leaning an arm upon his club...
Page 208 - ... nation, these shall be unmentioned ; provided we hear no more of such practices, and that they shall not from henceforward suffer the society of such as they know to be the common enemies of order, discipline, and virtue. If it appear that they go on in encouraging them, they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history, where all is to be laid before the world with impartiality, and •without respect to persons, ' So let the stricken deer go weep.